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Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) Customer Preview Program (CPP)!
Hello everyone! Back in October I made a post about SP2. At that point, we allowed a small group of TAP customers access to the SP2 beta. Today, I am happy to announce our schedule for making SP2 available to everyone for download! Starting today, TechNet and MSDN subscribers will be able to download the -
A Windows cluster claims number 10 of the world’s most powerful supercomputers!
The ego cluster is 1950 blades each with 16 cores and 64 GB memory. 4xDDR IB and 1GB/s GigE networks.   Every blade is based on a TYAN motherboard with 4 sockets and AMD Opteron 8347 HE (Barcelona b3) CPUs cadenced at 1.9 GHz (nope, not the fastest by any means). Dawning, AMD, and Mellanox. Fat -
Windows Server Solutions Launch Success
Thank you to all who attended the live webcast and launch event for the Windows Essential Server Solutions product line! The event was a great success, and we keep hearing how excited everyone is that Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008 are finally out in the market. Just in case you didn’t get enough of SBS -
URL Rewriter RTW and More IIS Extension Updates
Over the last few weeks, we have been out in force to deliver the good word about IIS 7.0 and IIS Extensions at conferences and gatherings around the globe, including TechEd Hong Kong, PDC in Los Angeles, TechEd EMEA in Barcelona, and even Digital Hollywood. But even with such a hectic travel schedule, our development -
WESS Launch: Announcing the availability of SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 today to customers worldwide
Today we are proud to invite you to attend the official launch of Essential Business Server (EBS) 2008 and Small Business Server (SBS) 2008, making up the Windows Essential Server Solution (WESS) product line, at www.thedreamserver.com. Considering how tight the economy is for the approx. 1.2 million mid-sized companies and 32 million small businesses worldwide, -
BranchCache Streamlines Remote Office Experience
Hello everyone – my name is Vikram Ghosh, and I am Product Manager for Branch Office Solutions on the Windows Server Team. I am writing to you from, TechED EMEA here in Barcelona Spain, to describe one of my favorite new features in Windows Server 2008 R2, BranchCacheTM. (Yes, we’ve already got a trademark.) If -
DirectAccess Makes Remote Computing Ubiquitous
Hit PDC, WinHEC or any other tech event this month and Windows Server 2008 R2 is going to be a common topic of conversation. And the most common feature discussed in those conversations is likely to be Live Migration, since it’s something on which we’ve received a ton of positive customer feedback. But while LM -
Want a pre-beta build of Windows Server 2008 R2? Needed to attend PDC or WinHEC
Hi there. Ward here to provide you an update on Windows Server 2008 R2 which we announced last week at the PDC in Los Angeles.  This week at both TechED EMEA and WinHEC, Microsoft provided more details and demos around features and capabilities expected for Windows Server 2008 R2, our release update to Windows Server -
TechEd EMEA: Terminal Services renamed Remote Desktop Services
Hi, Manlio Vecchiet here. I’m director of product management on the Windows Server marketing team, focused on Windows Server networking, terminal services and VDI. I’m in Barcelona right now attending Microsoft TechEd EMEA conference. Whether you are one of the many IT Pros that have successfully deployed Terminal Services over the past decade, or whether -
Announcing Windows Server 2008 R2!
Windows Server 2008 R2 showed its pretty face at the Professional Developers Conference today, here in Los Angeles. Hi there, my name’s Oliver Rist and I’m a new technical product manager on the Windows Server team. I’m down here in La-La Land heaving great sighs of satisfaction as we unveil the first sneak peeks of -
PDC 2008- Azure Services Platform and Windows Server
While I sit here at PDC, Ray Ozzie and Bob Muglia are announcing a new cloud computing platform – Azure Services Platform -that runs in Microsoft’s network of datacenters. In case you couldn’t make it to LA or watch the keynotes today, below is a short video of Bob providing an overview of the Azure