MSDN Mag

Read through some articles on the msdn mag. WCF 4.0 has a discovery mechanism for auto-discovering urls/endpoints. The WCF url wouldn't need to be hard-coded in the config.

Also read an article on .NET parallelism for computers with multiple cores. As the majority of CPUs these days have multiple cores and the number of cores/CPUs' per server continues to advance, writing code to leverage parallel programming becomes more relevant.

Windows 2008 Server Core

I've been using VMWare to set up an environment using OSI Soft PI Server , a windows 2008 Domain Controller , a SQL Server 2008 instance , a PI interface server , and a Windows 7 workstation. VMWare Workstation seemed a bit sluggish, with all these concurrent machines and my physical machine has 8 GB of RAM. I considered setting up one or more of these as a 2008 Server Core installation to reduce the amount of required RAM.

I went through a virtual lab for setting up and configuring a windows 2008 core domain controller.

Virtual Lab Excercise

Went to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/virtuallabs/bb512933.aspx
and chose the first lab, "Backup and restore in sharepoint server 2010".

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