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Windows Server 2008 hits the bookshelf
Well, it won’t be in book stores for another week, but you can now pre-order “Introducing Windows Server 2008” from Amazon.com. MVP and technical author Mitch Tulloch wrote the book with the help of a whole bunch of experts from the Windows Server division. Here’s an excerpt from Mitch’s post: However, this is not the -
SP2 to You
Based on customer feedback and requests, we have improved the Windows Update, Automatic Update and WSUS user install experience with Windows Server 2003 SP2. The experience is now more like that with Windows XP SP2 , meaning Windows Update End User License Agreement (EULA) acceptance and a Welcome screen will now be part of installation -
Windows Server 2008, the storage story
With the “official” name of the next Windows server release announced last week at WinHEC (Windows Server 2008….shocker!) and with availability of Beta 3, I figured this was a good time to discuss some of the features as they relate to the storage workload. Some of the pillars of Windows Server 2008 are: security, branch -
WinHEC 2007: 64bit server OS
At some point along the way, you’ve probably been given this advice about public speaking: (1) tell them what you’re going to say; (2) tell them; and (3) tell them what you’ve said. I’ve always found that to be good guidance, yet so easy to overlook or disgard because there’s so much I want to say. -
WinHEC: Mainframe-like hot swap comes to WinServer 08
I was stuck back in Redmond this week, unable to attend WinHEC 2007. But one cool, new feature of Windows Server 2008 on display at WinHEC is dynamic hardware partitioning. This was shown during Bill Laing’s keynote today. The demo also showcased new hardware features of the NEC Express5800/1320Xf server (Itanium) … further proof that Microsoft does -
Live from WinHEC….It’s WINDOWS SERVER 2008!
Greetings from Los Angeles and the 2007 edition of Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (known on the streets as WinHEC 2007). This yearly confab brings together the industry’s key PC hardware eco-system players to help define and drive what the future of Windows computing will look like. The conference has featured great announcements over the years -
Viridian features update; beta planned for Longhorn RTM
Here we are on the eve of WinHEC 2007. This show is always a fun industry event for me to engage with a broad spectrum of partners. Perhaps none better than last year, when we demo’d Windows Server virtualization (codename Viridian) for the first time in BillG’s keynote, and presented technical content of the new -
Be an IT Hero! How I brought back a document that was never saved.
Saving the day for a user can make all the difference in the world, especially if you are the user and it saves four days of work! Here is a new recovery scenario that I didn’t consider until it happened to me, thankfully, I was able to recover from my own stupidity and bring back -
More content on Server Manager
Ah, the beauty of the internet and how it is much easier to make additional content available to customers… 🙂 Computer World also has an article on Longhorn Server Beta 3 and Server Manager is one of the highlighted improvements in the new OS. The article is at http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=89&articleId=9018562&intsrc=hm_topic Last but not least, we had -
Boosting the Branch
Good news for the many IT pros that support branch office systems. Today Microsoft and Packeteer jointly announced a new Windows-based branch office box: the Packeteer iShaper. iShaper builds on an ongoing partnership between MS and Packeteer, combining Packeteer’s WAN optimization and application acceleration with Windows Server and ISA technology. That means customers can better ensure reliable, -
Got TB?
It looks like acquiring storage capacity will remain on the “Top List” of IT Pros for the upcoming years. While this is a bit late as far “spring cleaning” season at home, it is never too late to do some “cleaning” on your data. Buying raw storage is the “simple” solution to meet the data