Microsoft Windows Server Team articles
Two New Extension Updates for IIS 7.0 Available
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about IIS Extensions – new functionality for IIS that comes directly from the development team on a continuous basis. Well this week we have two more pre-release Extensions available, and each is a “Go Live” release candidate, meaning that they have reached the last milestone on the step
Get Virtual Now!
Today, the virtualization team kicked off the Get Virtual Now event in Bellevue. It’s designed to educate more than 250,000 IT professionals on our virtualization products, deployment tools and partner solutions, helping customers to virtualize from the datacenter to the desktop, and manage with the same tools they’re already using for their physical infrastructure. With more than
64-bit, Windows Server, Hyper-V, and the future
With the launch today of Hyper-V – available only in x64 versions – I thought that now would be a good time to revisit the topic of “64-bitness.” I’m a technical product manager on the Windows Server team focused on Windows Server 2008, R2, clustering, and power management, along with a few other areas. In the past I focused
SBS 2008: Released to Manufacturing!
Excerpt from the post on the SBS blog by group program manager Dean Paron: On behalf of the SBS team, I am extremely pleased to announce that Windows Small Business Server 2008 software has been finalized! Today both SBS Standard and Premium are being released to manufacturing, which means we begin the process of finalizing international versions,
URLSCAN 3.0 RTW: DOWNLOAD TODAY
In June of this year, we released a beta version of UrlScan 3.0, which can help mitigate SQL injection attacks. Today, we’re happy to announce the final release of UrlScan 3.0 for Internet Information Services (IIS). UrlScan 3.0 is a security tool that restricts the types of HTTP requests that IIS will process. By blocking
But Wait – There’s More! IIS 7.0 Extensions.
It might seem like a distant memory now, but when we launched Windows Server 2008 back in February, we made a big deal about the next-generation Web platform included with it: Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0. We spent a lot of time talking about how IIS 7.0 was redesigned in many fundamental ways. For example,
Windows Server ‘7’ aka “Windows Server 2008 R2”
With Windows Server 2008 being released only 6 months ago, i’m sure it’s natural for people to wonder “what’s next?” As I have been combing through various blogs this weekend, I found it exciting to see so much interest and speculation over the next version of Windows Server. While I’m bound by company NDA to
Pixar uses Windows HPC
All right, long story short, my 20th anniversary at Microsoft coincides with the 20th anniversary of Pixar’s RenderMan. Almost to the day. Same 20th . Same industry. And, of course, the same long history of success and innovation. But their celebration will be bigger. Not sure anyone really knows about my anniversary, I had to
SBS and EBS @ WPC
Lots of activities around the upcoming Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008 here in Houston at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference. On top of the many keynotes, sessions and demonstrations to help partners prepare for the Essential Server Solutions, we’re announcing November 12 as the launch date for both products. For real-time updates
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 for Hyper-V
On the heels of Hyper-V’s release last week, today Microsoft announced the release to web of Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 (MAP). Formerly known as Windows Vista Hardware Assessment, the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 is a network-wide agent-less tool to help quickly identify the locations of desktops and servers as well as