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John Savill's new book, Complete Guide to Windows Server 2008 available at Amazon now.

Please see the Videos page for all of the different versions of the videos mentioned.

October 2009

A look at Read Only Domain Controllers can be found here.

August 2009

A look at Windows Virtual PC and XP Mode can be found here.

Overview of the major new features of Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 can be found here.

VMWare Memory Overcommit walkthrough video can be found here.

July 2009

Windows Activation overview here.

June 2009

Active Directory Snapshot Overview can be found here.

Exchange 2010 High Availability Overview can be found here.

Hyper-V Management Delegation Overview can be found here.

May 2009

TCP/IP Overview can be found here.

Branch Cache Overview can be found here.

April 2009

Windows 2008 R2 Overview can be found here.

March 2009

Windows 2008 R2 HA Networks and Virtualization explained here.

Windows 7 Interface walkthrough here.

February 2009

Microsoft Online video here.

Microsoft Virtualization overview in 2009 video here.

This months IT Pro presentation will be on Microsoft Online and information can be found at http://www.windowsitpro.com/go/seminars/johnsavill/microsoftonlineservices.

Installing to a VHD in Windows 7/2008 R2 can be found here.

January 2009

Clustering in a Virtual World video here.

Cluster Shared Volume and NetFT traffic deep dive can be found here.

December 2008

Exchange 2007 High Availability deep dive is available here.

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure overview is shown here.

Windows Vista SideShow and its compatibility with Windows Mobile is shown here.

November 2008

Hyper-V Windows Server 2008 R2 Live Migration is explored in this video. A 800x600 also available on the videos page.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Physical To Virtual (P2V) migration explored in this video.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Virtual To Virtual (V2V) migration explored in this video.

October 2008

Hyper-V networking explained in this video. See the videos page for different resolutions.

Hyper-V and hypervisors explained in this video.

New video on TS Easy Print available. Click her for the 640x480 version.

New TS Gateway overview and demonstration video. Click here for the 640x480. 800x600 also available but 250MB! First video created from new HD video camera so now the light really shines off my head :-).

Microsoft's office Clustering and High Availability Blog links to the videos now. Check out http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering/archive/2008/10/07/8986092.aspx.

TS RemoteApps are explored in this latest video. Click here for the 640x480 version or here for the 800x600. Both in WMV format.

Interested in Hyper-V Server. View this video to get the scoop on what Hyper-V server is, what it can do and hot to install and manage it.

• 800x600 AVI Version (92MB)

• 640x480 WMV Version (20MB)

September 2008

Want to understand Quick Migration for Hyper-V and see it, click here.

Trouble understanding how Quorum works, check out this video

Check out this video on validating and configuring a Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster.

August 2008

Check out this video on configuring Windows Server 2008 failover clustering from the command line.

Check out this video on using the Melio file system.

July 2008

See this complete document on making Windows Server 2008 your perfect desktop environment. It even plays Lego Indiana Jones!

June 2008

Check out this step-by-step video on configuring Windows Server Core under Windows Server 2008 from the command line.

http://www.savilltech.com/Videos/servercore/servercore.wmv.

April 2008

John's speaking times for Tech Ed 2008 have been confirmed. Come see him for two sessions:

April 2008

In addition to John's regular "Ask the Experts" column, John has an article in April's Windows IT Pro magazine around installing Windows Server 2008. Check it out at http://windowsitpro.com/Windows/Issues/IssueID/908/Index.html.

March 2008

John has given a webcast for EMC on Windows Server 2008 and its use at branch offices. Take a look at the recording at http://www.emc.com/events/2008/q1/03-19-08-windows.htm?source=event.

January 2008

Happy Dance! The main writing for John's new book, the Complete Guide to Windows Server 2008 is finished. Now it's time for developmental, technical and copy edits.

July 2007

Look out for John's article on Windows Deployment Services in the July issue of Windows IT Pro magazine and on System Center in the July issue of SQL Server magazine.

June 2007

John spoke at Tech Ed US 2007 in Florida on the Windows Server 2008 file server features and was a repeated session being given on both Monday and Wednesday.

May 2007

John has given seminars in Kansas, Dallas and Oklahoma (17/4) on Windows Vista deployment and Application Virtualization as part of series sponsored by Microsoft


April 2007

Article in TechNet magazine on using System Center Capacity Planner. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/04/SCCP/default.aspx.

March 2007

John has been contracted to write a book on Windows Server 2008 with a Christmas 2007 completion time frame.

February 2007

Article in Windows IT Pro magazine on File and Print Annoyances

December 2006

Article in Windows IT Pro magazine on Internet Explorer 7 deployment

October 2006

Article in TechNet magazine on deploying servers with Automated Deployment Services

June 2006

John is speaking at Tech Ed US 2006 on the new FSRM Windows 2003 R2 feature and beyond. See http://www.msteched.com/content/sessions.aspx and search for John Savill.

SVR234 New File Server Features of Windows 2003 R2 and Windows Server Code Named "Longhorn"
Day/Time: Friday, June 16 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM Room: Grand Ballroom B
Speaker(s): John Savill

Yep, last day to speak therefore John can be freaking out all week about it :-)

April 2006

John has published an article on the new Windows 2003 R2 FSRM feature for Technet Magazine at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2006/05/GetControl/default.aspx.

John also has an article on Operating System Deployment in Windows IT Pro magazine, http://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Issues/IssueID/819/Index.html.

December 2005

John has published an article on Windows 2003 R2 for Windows IT Pro magazine in their December issue.

8th December 2005

John Savill spoke at Microsoft in Houston on Windows 2003 R2.

7th December 2005

John Savill appeared on Fox 4 news as part of a Krav Maga demonstration (John is the guy getting beaten up). Click one of the links below to see

• High Quality MPEG Full Size (224MB)
• High Quality MPEG Half Size (56MB)
• High Quality WMV Full Size (60MB)
• Broadband WMV 512Kbps (21MB)
• Broadband WMV 150Kbps (6MB)
• Pocket PC formatted WMV (9MB)

6th December 2005

Windows 2003 R2 released. John Savill explains what is new in Windows 2003 R2 in the December 2005 issue of Windows IT Pro magazine. Direct link to article at http://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/48251/48251.html and a sidebar on ADFS at http://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/48252/48252.html.