Tag: Windows Server

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Windows Server virtualization at TechEd 2007 

For those of you amongst the 14,000 attending TechEd 2007 next week in Orlando, expect to see and learn alot about virtualization. It all starts with Bob Muglia’s keynote on Monday where Jeff Woolsey will reprise his role of virtualization demo dude.
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SP2 to You 

Based on customer feedback and requests, we have improved the Windows Update, Automatic Update and WSUS user install experience with Windows Server 2003 SP2.
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Windows Server 2008, the storage story 

With the “official” name of the next Windows server release announced last week at WinHEC (Windows Server 2008….shocker!) and with availability of Beta 3, I figured this was a good time to discuss some of the features as they relate to the storage workload.
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Live from WinHEC….It’s WINDOWS SERVER 2008! 

Greetings from Los Angeles and the 2007 edition of Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (known on the streets as WinHEC 2007). This yearly confab brings together the industry’s key PC hardware eco-system players to help define and drive what the future of Windows computing will look like.
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Support for Applications on External Storage 

Members of the Storage product management group still receive lots of inquiries about support and compatibility of Microsoft applications with external storage.  The information most often requested is related to Exchange, SQL and file serving.  We often hear comments like: “Running applications like SQL, Exchange, or SharePoint are not supported on a SAN”.
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Beta 3 Is Go! 

Today we reach another major milestone on the road to Windows Server “Longhorn” with the availability of Beta 3. In addition to being feature-complete, Beta 3 is also our first public release, meaning that millions of IT professionals and developers worldwide can now begin evaluating the product simply by downloading it from our web site.
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Viridian and Virtual Server Timing Updates 

As the person who oversees the development plans, teams and strategy for Microsoft’s virtualization software on desktops and servers, I want to update everyone on the timing of our server virtualization offerings.
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Virtual PC Guy’s book on Virtual Server 

Ben Armstrong, the MS employee who blogs as the Virtual PC Guy, has published book on Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. See the second link for a summary of the chapters and content included in the book.
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Longhorn and Vista sightings in Austin 

I spent Monday and Tuesday in Austin, TX for meetings with counterparts at Dell and AMD. Doing these meeting back-to-back is much easier now than last year due to these two companies working together. The drive on IH 35 between the two headquarters is only 35 minutes – on a good day I’m told.