Guy Haycock here - SBS Product Manager. While many of you will be following the news and excitement around the release of Windows Server 2003 R2 today , we wanted to be sure that you saw the related news on Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 (SBS 2003...

Tomorrow (Dec. 6) the members of the File Server Resource Manager team will answer questions on the new FSRM component in Windows Server 2003 R2....

I wanted to talk about a brand new networking stack coming in Windows Server "Longhorn" (and Windows Vista). Dubbed the "Next Generation TCP/IP stack," this is a complete redesign of the TCP/IP functionality in Windows and represents the most significant update since the early 1990s. A key feature of this new networking stack is a dual IP layer architecture in which IPv4 and IPv6 share common Transport and Framing layers....

Gates' keynote from Supercomputing 2005 went well based on our un-scientific polls on the show floor....

The team just re-launched the TechNet and MSDN virtual labs running on Virtual Server 2005 R2...

Thanks to Steve Riley for pointing out some of the vulnerabilities about my post with using 802.1x to secure wired networks: (The whitepaper from this post does address these concerns) Essentially, the vulnerability is a weakness in the 802.1x protocol...

Over 9,000 people showed up to Seattle for SC'05. That's up from 8,000 in Pittsburgh last year. BillG's keynote showed how HPC is going to expand beyond historical supercomputing centers. Here's a datasheet on one of his demos on cancer research. The...

Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 runs scientific and technical HPC applications that take advantage of parallel processing at a departmental or workgroup level....

I have talked to many IT Pros over the years about using IEEE 802.1x to secure their wireless networks. One thing that I always found interesting is the number of people who are unaware that 802.1x isn’t just for wireless networks....wired too! If you...

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...

My name is Adam Bogobowicz and I am a Product Manager for Window SharePoint Services. I am happy to share with you that today my product is getting more mature, simpler to deploy, and gains support for our latest technologies. If you played with our...

Is it Compute Cluster Solution or Compute Cluster Edition? We seem to be getting a few perplexed looks from some of our customers as to the actual name of our new HPC technology. Is it Compute Cluster Solution (CCS) or Compute Cluster Edition (CCE...

We are really glad that we were able to deliver an updated build of Windows Server codenamed Longhorn for the PDC this week here in LA. The build is quite 'hot off the press'. For those of you who install it, you may notice that some of the screens...

We have received overwhelming customer and partner feedback requesting that Virtual Server 2005 be part of MSDN. We have listened, and as such, effective today Virtual Server 2005 Standard Edition will be available as part of MSDN Enterprise, and Universal...

Today at PDC 05 in Los Angeles our Director of High Performance Computing (HPC), Kyril Faenov, outlined Microsoft's plans for our newest addition to the Windows Server family - Compute Cluster Solution (CCS) in a packed breakout session. What is Microsoft...

At IDF, an IHV partner called Mellanox ran a demo using the SDK for Windows Server Compute Cluster Edition, running on two server with 64-bit Xeon procs and PCI Express. Mellanox ran the Mandelbrot demo over Infiniband between the clustered servers....