Building a Dev Environment Using Win Server 2008

Do you struggle within finding the optimal development environment for you or your team? If you have ample hardware, leveraging the improvements in Windows Server 2008, along with Hyper-V virtualization, may prove to be the best infrastructure to date.

This talk will introduce Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V technologies from the standpoint of building .NET applications. We will discuss 32 vs 64 bit; virtualization benefits and the Hyper-V improvements over Virtual PC and Virtual Server 2005; and why Windows Server 2008 might be a better host operating system when compared to Vista/XP.

While this talk will contain lecture and some demo, it will be more peer-to-peer discussion than we normally have. Bring your ideas and questions, and let’s discuss them as a group.

As always, free pizza, drinks and door prizes will be given away. Hope to see you there.

Speaker Bio: Randy Williams

Nearly 20 years of IT experience, with last 12 years as a project consultant, development manager and technical trainer. Involved in all aspects of software lifecycle development, including requirements gathering, architecture, development, testing, deployment, and project management; directly responsible for estimating, architecting and lead development.

Current emphasis is on architechting and developing against Microsoft SharePoint.

Also highly skilled in SQL Server back-end (modeling/stored procedures), web/middle-tier (ASP/ASP.NET), with an emphasis on XML integration technologies. Architected and deployed many applications worldwide.
Randy Williams’s Specialties:

Expert-level experience in Microsoft SharePoint, .NET, SQL Server, and XML technologies.

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