Matt Hester presented at New Horizons SpecTECHular on 2008 R2 and as always did a great job
Books and blogs
check out Matt's blog and buy his book!
http://blogs.technet.com/matthewms/
http://blogs.msdn.com/wsteele/
Security
look up Kevin Mitnick book on hacking
Migration guide – for 2003 – 2008 server migration
Search technet for guides
New Cluster services
cool new
Remote desktop services
Remotefx
Add Desktop experience to server 2008
Hyper-v
snapshot - great new option
live migration - move server with no issues using cluster shared volumes
Powershell - .net on the command line
Load windows powershell integrated scripting environment to get windows powershell ise utility
Get-command
Cmdlet
Function – alias
Get-service
Get-help get-service
Get-help get-service -examples
Second Session
GPO
Desktop optimization pack from technet
use filter to look into GPO in GPME
enable keyword filters in GPME
WAIK
Deployment toolkit
IE8
www.ie8demos.com/tryit
cross site scripting
AD 2008 R2
recycle bin instead of tombstone recovery
Powershell 101
reverse engineer
get-command
make sure to add the right module
import-module activedirectory
http://blogs.msdn.com/adpowershell/
http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/2007/03/06/powertab-powershell-intellisense/
