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Announcing public preview of Windows Admin Center in the Azure portal 

This post was authored by Hari Pulapaka, Partner Group Program Manager, Windows Windows Admin Center, your favorite server management tool, is now available in preview in Azure. This new capability enables seamless and granular management of your Windows Server Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) from within the Azure portal. Here is a short video highlighting some
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Announcing Windows Server Summit 2020 

We’re right on the heels of Microsoft Ignite and in comes another exciting virtual event: Windows Server Summit 2020! Mark your calendars for Thursday, October 29 at 9:00 AM Pacific Time where we will dive deeper into the latest and greatest innovation in Windows Server announced at Ignite such as Azure Automanage, Windows Admin Center
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Second update rollup for System Center 2019 released 

We are back to announce the release of Update Rollup 2 (UR2) for System Center 2019. Customers can now download UR2 for System Center 2019 from Microsoft Update as well as other channels. This update covers System Center Operations Manager, Virtual Machine Manager, Data Protection Manager, Orchestrator, and Service Manager. Like Update Rollup 1, released
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Microsoft raises the security standard for next major Windows Server release 

Server security and platform Integrity are critical requirements in today’s datacenter, edge, and cloud environments. Many Windows Server customers have relied on built-in security capabilities such as Secure boot and BitLocker to protect their infrastructure. These capabilities are enhanced when combined with proper underlying server hardware such as Trusted Platform Module (TPM) or adequate Unified
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Windows Server container support in Azure Kubernetes Service is now generally available 

Containerization is an important cloud computing development to more seamlessly build, test, deploy, and manage cloud applications. Containers also introduced many of our customers to new technologies including Docker, Windows containers, orchestration, and microservices. Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Windows Server container support in the Azure Kubernetes Service. Many of our customers are
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First update rollup for System Center 2019 released 

This blog post was authored by Vithalprasad Gaitonde, Principal PM Manager, System Center On March 14, 2019, Microsoft announced the availability of System Center 2019 for Windows Server 2019 to support management of Windows Server 2019 and a host of other new management capabilities. Today we are announcing that the first update rollup release (UR1)