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Der Verlag Galileo Computing stellt sein Handbuch zum "Windows Server 2008" (von Ulrich B. Boddenberg) bereits vor Erscheinen im Buchhandel kostenlos online zum Download bereit.
Das Buch richtet sich an Administratoren, Entscheider und Berater, die sich mit dem Windows Server 2008 beschäftigen.
Es beleuchtet das neue Serverbetriebssystem aus einem sehr praxis- und lösungsorientierten Blickwinkel und zeigt nach einem ersten Überblick der Basistechnologien konkrete Einsatzmöglichkeiten auf...

Die Downloadversion ist rund 80,4 MByte groß und enthält das Buch in einer HTML-Version, die auch online verfügbar ist...

Einen interessanten Artikel wie man mit Solaris und ZFS einen günstigen und performanten Fileserver aufbauen kann publiziert "heise open" auf seiner Website.

Den kompletten Artikel findet man hier....

Guy Teverovsky has created a GUI utility for configuration of Windows Server Core.

Tool Features:

    * Product Activation
    * Configuration of display resolution
    * Clock and time zone configuration
    * Remote Desktop configuration
    * Management of local user accounts (creation, deletion, group membership, passwords)
    * Firewall configuration
    * WinRM configuration
    * IP configuration
    * Computer name and domain/workgroup membership
    * Installation of Server Core features/roles

Read more here.....

This document posted by Ruben Spruijt will provide an overview of the Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V solution.

Here´s a nice article from the Microsoft's Clustering Team Blog about how to create a cluster on Windows 2008.

Windows Cluster 2008 provides multiple ways of adding a disk to an existing cluster.
This helpful article from the Cluster Guys will walk you through all the available choices.

Check it out here....

and last but not least,

Robert Larson has done an excellent post on how to configure Hyper-V Clustering.

You can find the step by step guide here....

Microsoft has posted new Step-by-step Guides on its Download Page.

They Contains interesting articles, like:

-  Configuring a Two-Node File Server Failover Cluster
-  Configuring a Two-Node Print Server Failover Cluster
-  Check specifically: Creating and Deploying Active Directory Rights Management Services Templates
-  Deploying Active Directory Rights Management Services in an Extranet

Check it out here....

These two posters, originally published in the July 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine, provide a strong visual tool to aide in the understanding of various features and components of Windows Server 2008.
One poster focuses exclusively on powerful new Active Directory technologies, while the other provides a technical look at a variety of new features available in Windows Server 2008 (such as Server Core, Network Access Protection, and more).

You can download these nice posters here......