Windows Server 2008 is an enterprise-grade operating system suitable for virtually any server environment. In this session you will see a number of ways in which developers can write code to leverage the power of Windows Server 2008. Topics include Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0, Windows Powershell, and Microsoft Management Console (MMC) 3.0.

This session covers new features in IIS 7 which are of interest to application developers, including the new integrated pipeline, writing managed modules and handlers, extensions to the management UI, and request tracing.

This session introduces the new shell environment and scripting language, covering basic commands, pipelining, scripting, and creating new CMDLETS commands.

This session presents information on performing atomic operations in Windows Server 2008, which is the first MS server to support NTFS transactions for Encrypting File System.