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Jan. 13 Web chat on High Performance Computing
The first Windows Server exec Web chat of 2006 is set for Friday, Jan. 13. Kyril Faenov will be joined by folks on his dev team to answer questions about Windows Compute Cluster Server and Microsoft’s plans for HPC. Don’t attend if you’re interested in clustering services such as load balancing. Patrick -
Oracle Spreads Fractional Holiday Cheer
I didn’t think I’d have anything to write this week with all the candy canes and holiday cheer about, there’s nothing overly compelling. I know, I know, we shipped another build of “Longhorn” Server to beta partners and TAP customers … but this is business as usual. It went out with a CTP of Windows Vista. A few -
Virtual Server 2005 R2 in time for the holidays
There are some partners and customers with beta code of Virtual Server 2005 SP1 that is set to expire at the end of the month, and they need to know where to get their hands on the RTM version of Virtual Server 2005 R2. As an aside: I’m assuming you all know that Virtual Server 2005 -
Product Dev Team’s View on Windows Server 2003 R2
Hello everybody. My name is Eric Kidd. I’m a director in the Windows Server Division at Microsoft, responsible for leading the product development of Windows Server 2003 R2. That means I work with marketing in defining the release as a product and I offer leadership in product development and successful release execution across the Windows -
Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 – Get the details here!
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 R2). This is the release 2 (R2) update -
TechNet chat on File Server Resource Manager
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 and how it can be used by IT administrators to understand and control the type and quantity of data stored on their servers. Here are the details: 10:00 – 11:30 -
Next Generation of Windows Networking at the IPv6 Summit
Ian Hameroff here; a first-time blogger, long-time reader. I’m a product manager within the Windows Server Division and am focused on the advanced networking technologies. 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 -
More from the floor of SC’05
Gates’ keynote from Supercomputing 2005 went well based on our un-scientific polls on the show floor. By well I mean this pro-Linux and non-MS crowd said he hit on good points re: HPC, was interesting and showed good demos. The following comment — from a Beltway national labs guy who runs an all Unix/Linux lab — is a good -
MS Virtual Labs
The team just re-launched the TechNet and MSDN virtual labs running on Virtual Server 2005 R2. Check out these sites if you want to test our new software, such as SQL Server 2005 integration services, Windows Server R2 or Visual Studio Team System, in a sandbox environment. Each session is 90 minutes and comes without install, -
802.1x Authentication for Wired Networks – A vulnerability note
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 — it authenticates only upon connection establishment and assumes all traffic after authentication is legitimate. So if an attacker -
From SC’05
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 demo included a live Infiniband connection back to Intel’s Dupont facility in the