Hey everyone, The Group Policy team has a series of blog posts lined up, Group Policy in Windows Server 2012: Overview to cover 3 new features in Windows Server 2012 that should make your life as a Group Policy admin easier. In the next week they will...

Hi, this is Christa Anderson, Community Lead for the Windows Server and System Center Group, back with this week’s updates on the next stops in the Windows Server 2012 Community Roadshow. This time, I’m happy to announce we’ve got four...

In today’s post, Martin McClean and Brian Lich talk about their Windows Store app, Server Posterpedia. If you’re interested in learning how Microsoft technologies work—for example, Windows Server, Exchange Server, Windows Azure, and...

Hi, we're back with another list of Windows Server 2012 Community Roadshow events... We are really flying now with events. Lot's of great participation and education on Windows Server 2012 from our MVPs to you. We hope that you can make an event. If you...

Hi again, here is your weekly update on upcoming events for the Windows Server 2012 Community Roadshow from my colleague Christa Anderson. We are super pumped about this series of Roadshow Events and this has been a super valuable event series for our...

Microsoft has just announced that Windows Server 2012 Essentials is generally available for purchase through volume licensing, retail and reseller channels. This is a great opportunity for Microsoft partners to deliver a solution designed to meet the...

Hi again, Here is another update on upcoming events for the Windows Server 2012 Community Roadshow from my colleague Christa Anderson: Kevin Beares Hi, this is Christa Anderson, Community Lead for the Windows Server and System Center Group. The...

Hi, this is Kevin Beares, as promised two weeks ago in our post, Windows Server 2012 Training has begun!!! Register Now! ... We will continue to bring you more information on the roadshow as new dates and cities are locked in. Here is a message from my...

In case you aren’t up on current events: Windows Server 2012 ROCKS! Do yourself a favor and get educated on all that it can do for you. Kevin Beares will tell you how. Cheers! Jeffrey Hey, this is Kevin Beares, Senior Community Lead for the...

Windows Server has an awesome dynamic range. It runs everything from the largest internet sites to the smallest businesses. With all of the discussion about being a CloudOS, you might wonder whether this represents a change. The answer is a definitive...

Today’s launch of Windows Server 2012 puts a spotlight on the transformational shift underway across the entire IT ecosystem. This transformation is being driven by an exponential growth of devices used for smarter, more personalized applications...

Unlocking Network Flexibility, Efficiency, and Multi-tenancy for the Cloud When we talked with customers about their datacenters, we found that virtualization was not fully living up to its potential. Customers readily acknowledged the benefits of machine...

Great news! We reached another important milestone on the road to the final release of Windows Server 2012 Essentials: the Release Candidate (RC) is available now for download and evaluation . If you haven’t started exploring the product yet, this...

Howdy! Today is the day we’ve all been waiting for. I’m proud to announce that Windows Server 2012 has been released to manufacturing. That means the final code is complete and we are delivering it to our hardware and software vendor partners...

What an exciting time to be part of the Windows Server team! Earlier this week we announced the RTM and general availability of Windows Server 2012 in conjunction with the Windows 8 team's announcement of their dates. Since then we’ve seen a steady...

Today Microsoft is kicking off an exciting week at our Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto. Windows Server 2012 will be a focus of attention at the event, of course, and it is nearing final release. In fact, at the conference we are announcing that...

I recently had a conversation where someone was talking about the difference between people vested in their community and those that aren’t. He said that when you walk by and see some trash on the ground, someone vested in their community will stop...

Many years ago, Microsoft joined with other companies to define the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), a set of standards to abstract the devices on a PC (and later, a server) for the OS. The HAL is the unsung hero of the computing industry, allowing an...

In case you couldn't make it to Orlando this morning, Satya Nadella, President, Server & Tools Business, kicked off TechEd North America 2012 with a keynote outlining Microsoft's vision for the new era of the cloud enabled OS. We encourage you to...

Updated 7/25/2012: The .NET team posted a deep dive into the runtime improvements in the .NET Framework 4.5 , specifically in the CLR Garbage Collector. These are the same improvements that we posted on earlier, which the Bing team saw on Windows Server...

Great news! We reached another important milestone on the road to the final release of the cloud optimized OS: Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate (RC) is available now for download and evaluation . If you haven’t yet started exploring the...

This concludes my two part series. In my first post, I provided some background information about PowerShell and DevOps. In this post, I’ll provide you a bunch of specifics. PowerShell 3.0, like Windows Server 2012, has a ton of new features and...

In the first of a two part series, I provide some background information about PowerShell and DevOps. In the second post, I’ll provide you a bunch of specifics. PowerShell 3.0, like Windows Server 2012, has a ton of new features and enhancements...

We’ve put a lot of work into Windows Server 2012, and are happy to see the positive feedback from press and those who’ve downloaded the beta . We look forward to presenting Windows Server 2012 at our June TechEd events in Orlando and Amsterdam...

We constantly strive to reduce the steps required for you to get your job done. One of the reasons Windows Server 2012 is a such great release is that we spent so much time listening to our customers and understanding their scenarios and concerns. When...