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....

We posted a Web bulletin today to let customers know that Longhorn Server running on Itanium-based servers "is designed specifically for database workloads and custom and line-of-business applications." The bulletin goes on to state: Windows Server...

A really good question came my way this week: What is the Significance of the RC Milestone? Many of our product milestones (Beta, RC, etc.) are publicized as a march forward toward the final release of a product - But what is the significance of each...

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...

Intel’s Pat Gelsinger just demo’d a future version of Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 running Intel’s Virtualization Technology (VT). IDF attendees saw an early preview of a future release (post-Virtual Server 2005 R2) of Virtual Server....

During his keynote, Otellini projected that the ramp up for dual core chips will overtake single core shipments in Q3 2006 - in one year. Adding to it, Otellini said that Intel will ship 60 million dual core procs by the end of 2006. If you're Oracle...

I was reading Mary Jo Foley's quick little update on the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) capabilities in Vista. - want to know more about it? If so - read on. TPM technology is being realized as a part of the NGSCB in the next versions of both the client...

MS Learning works closely with our team to provide training on our various technologies. One of the recent free , online courses (thats right - free!) they have completed is the 2855 Clinic: Managing Security Enhancements in Windows Server 2003 Service...

The virtual storage company delivered the four P’s of marketing with yesterday's announcement. The un-written story is that VMware’s initiative is as much as reaction to XenSource as to Microsoft Virtual Server....

I've recently seen some articles that have been speculating that we will be including "Monad" in the upcoming release to Windows Server Longhorn, and that we have removed it from the Windows Vista beta 1. I just wanted to take a minute and comment on...

I was interested to read Victor's academic paper on 64-bit computing, which is focused on the transition from x86-32bit to x86-64bit, and the impact of dual-core....

Hey everybody, As you probably heard by now, today we released the Beta 1 of Windows Vista, which is the next version of the Windows client operating system, previously known as Windows Longhorn. What you may not know is that we also released Beta...

There's a new (June 27) benchmark for SAP-SD, three-tier Internet configuration. See more here: http://www50.sap.com/benchmarkdata/sd3tier.asp . The benchmark used SQL Server 2005 (64bit) on Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition, running on...

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...

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....

Maybe not as monumental as Charles Kurault or Phish, but Windows x64 has logged many a mile in the past months. If you haven't see the show in person, there's still five more U.S. cities left in the AMD/Microsoft Tech Tour. If you missed out on Route64, and you're an ISV or integrator partner, keep an eye out for a new Windows x64 Fastlane Kit for Partners....

I thought I would share a little story about my HUGE security oversight with my home SBS 2003 system. I thought it might be good to both to educate and to elucidate how easy it can be to compromise a system. (when you don’t pay attention) I should preface...

Following up on Joseph’s post last week, some first-time customers of Windows Server Update Services have asked something to the effect of "why can’t I see patches for Office and SQL Server?" Be assured, they’re there as this screen capture shows. ...

Hello - I ’m Joseph Dadzie, group program manager for Software Distribution technologies in the Windows Server team. My team is currently responsible for the infrastructure behind Windows Update and Microsoft Update, the Windows Server Update Services...