Howdy! My name is Jeffrey Snover. I am the Distinguished Engineer for Windows Server where I help drive the architectural direction and technical strategy of the product. It’s possible you know me as the inventor of Windows PowerShell. As we continue...

We had a good question come back through the blog the other day - "How do you support ABE on clustered file servers?" Although our plans for this integrating this feature are geared more toward the Longhorn timeframe, one of our Program Managers for...

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...

I found these results of this report interesting because Symantec is not always on the best of terms with Microsoft. Despite this fact, Symantec's study found that Windows Server - quoting InternetNews here - "had the fewest number of patches and the shortest average patch development time of the five operating systems it monitored in the last six months of 2006." Read more at Symantec's 11th Annual "Internet Security Threat Report."...

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...

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...

I’ve written previously about 64-bit and Windows Server and the long, steady adoption of 64-bit computing over the years. Having been involved in Windows Server support for Alpha processors in the past, and seeing many of the early chapters of 64-bit...

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...

Microsoft Windows has long supported standards-based management. We were one of the founding members of the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) and shipped the first, and richest, Common Information Model (CIM) Object Manager (CIMOM) we all know...

I just about fell over when I read the following comments from Larry McVoy, creator of BitKeeper, in a Forbes article discussing an issue with Linux kernel development. Indeed, McVoy says some Linux coders have been hassling him for years, because...

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...

As we’re getting closer to release, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is returning to how it was previously available to Windows Server 2008 customers. Specifically, we are going back to making it available as a separate download that is available to customers...

Hi, for those of you that don’t know me, I’m Tina Couch and I’m the newest member to the Windows Server team. I wanted to share that today we made available the Windows Server 2008 release candidate one (RC1) for customers to download and evaluate. We...

One of my favorite features of W2k was the distributed file system (DFS). WS03 offered a few improvements to DFS, but nothing compared to the changes in R2 to DFS. If you havent visited the R2 Techcenter to review the technical overview of DFS Namespace...

Danger, Will Robinson! If you’ve got machines still running Windows 2000 Server in your enterprise, your robot will be blaring this warning ever more urgently the closer we get to July 13, 2010. That’s the end-of-support date for the Windows 2000 Server...

Today our Windows Server product development team reached a very important milestone - the release of Windows Server 2003 R2 RC0. If you haven't heard about R2 before, R2 is an update release of Windows Server 2003 with SP1, and provides improved branch...

With its transition from Mainstream Support, today marks the first day (of at least 1,825 – five years’ worth) of Windows 2000 Server’s Extended Support Phase....

Today, Microsoft is announcing Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. Detailed information regarding SP1 will be released over the next several months; but today Windows Server 2008 R2 is announcing that SP1 will deliver two important...

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...

Come and get it!! http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/r2/default.mspx Cheers, Ward Ralston

There's been passing mentions of Windows Home Server on this blog. So I wanted to pass along that yesterday Windows Home Server was released to manufacturing ... ahead of schedule. You can watch the final sign-off meeting here. OEM products will hit the store shelves this fall. It's been more than 4 years since Windows Server 2003 was released, and since then it has been the basis for new storage and small business servers, Microsoft's entry into high-performance computing, branch office and 64-bit computing ... and now the home. Go check Home Server. Patrick...

SP1 is really an interesting service pack..... not only does it do the job of a normal service pack (aggregating updates) it also incorporates added functionality like the Security Configuration Wizard and Post-Setup Security Updates. But this is something...

For the first time in the two companies history, Microsoft and Cray have teamed up to offer a powerful mix of what each company does best - - the Cray CX1! What is the CX1, you ask? It’s a compact supercomputer running Windows HPC Server 2008 , that’s...

We’ve all heard about the agility that server virtualization delivers. However, our conversations with people in the trenches made it clear that the full potential of virtualization remains frustratingly beyond their grasp. In particular, the lack...

Hi—I am Rob Emanuel, a Technology Architect on the Microsoft.com Operations team focusing on virtualization. I wanted to share the great progress we have made rolling out Hyper-V since my first blog a month ago. In that blog I discussed our success with...