October, 2005

I had a comment from my last post about the new SMB2 protocol that I wanted to follow up on...There was mention of support for 'Symbolic Links' in the post and Mr. Kevin Owen asked for some clarification. So, Kevin - straight from the developer who wrote...

MSFT's first time presence at VMworld conference and other spots....

Want to get a better understanding of the new DFS Namespace and Replication in the upcoming release of R2? Join the DFS chat on Oct 27 at 10AM PST. This is your chance to chat with the developers and product managers responsible for this nifty new technology...

As we get closer to Beta 2 of Windows Server codenamed "Longhorn" - there will be a lot of talk on the bigger features that Longhorn will deliver....Network Access Protection, Read-Only Domain Controller, Server Core, Secure Startup, Role Management Tools...

at HP Technology Forum 2005, a program manager for HP ProLiant came clean on the performance and architecture differences of AMD Opteron vs. Intel Xeon processors....

It's cool to see more and more partners running demos on Windows Server "Longhorn" - even though they're only using beta 1 code. Last week alone we had NEC and Citrix....

It's been a tough week for MySQL....

Hi, this is Mark Aggar, Senior Product Planner for Windows Server. Although my focus is now moving onto post-Longhorn projects, I'm still heavily involved with Longhorn itself (for those that care, I also did the planning for Windows Server 2003 R2)....

Today we announced some significant licensing changes with regards to virtualization and Windows Server 2003: (1) Starting with Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition - customers can run up to 4 virtual instances of Windows Server 2003 (any edition...

So, you think about operational effectiveness and security all the time? You go home at night wishing you could push a magic button and have your infrastructure instantly automated and secure? I would bet you’re so bogged down in your daily activities...