Joe Wilcox had an interesting post in his Microsoft Monitor blog on our R2 development and the recent release of the Virtual Server SP1 Beta. The virtual server post caught my eye as Joe could not think any realstic scenarios as to why anyone would want to run Linux in a Virtual Server environment. Since we…Read more
It was really a great week here in Seattle for the launch of x64 at WinHEC. I had a really good chance to meet some other bloggers out there….you attendance at WinHEC was definetly appreciated. It really was a great time – did anyone else use some of the cool footage? An interesting point of WinHEC…Read more
Hi – My name is Julius Sinkevicius and I’m a Senior Product Manager in the Windows Server division at Microsoft. One of the projects that I’m working on is on the release of Windows Server 2003 R2. As you may have heard, we’ve recently reached the Beta 2 milestone for R2, which we’re all very…Read more
Steve Ballmer annouced today our beta of Virtual Server 2005 SP1….now supporting x64 as host operating systems. I have had the personal pleasure of running this x64 version on a 4-way x64 box with 32G of RAM – doing demonstrations has never been easier for me! I can get tons of images up and running….Read more
As mentioned in previous posts, the Access-Based Enumeration GUI and Command-Line tools and whitepaper would be available as a separate download for SP1. It can now be downloaded here. Many thanks to Koni for tracking this – truly appreciated. Here is what the folder properties will look like when ABE is enabled. The whitepaper in…Read more
We have just announced the public beta of System Center Data Protection Manager 2006. If you have heard about Disk-Based backup and recovery and want to see for yourself what all the buzz is about, I would urge you to take the beta for a spin: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/dpm/download/default.mspx. The Data Protection Manager Technical Overview is located…Read more
Hi – Patrick in product marketing. When I first wrote here weeks ago, I never would have guessed that the forecast for the NHL would be worse than the forecast for Itanium. Talk about hitting you where it hurts. The NHL is sinking like a ship in icy waters. Hockey-talk god Howard Berger hit the nail…Read more
Greetings! My name is Clyde Rodriguez (pretty unusual name for a guy of Mexican American decent, but yep, that’s my name). I am a Group Program Manager in the Windows division here at Microsoft and have been with the Windows team almost 10 years (!!), the last four of which I’ve had the privilege of…Read more
SP1 is really an interesting service pack….. not only does it do the job of a normal service pack (aggregating updates) it also incorporates added functionality like the Security Configuration Wizard and Post-Setup Security Updates. But this is something you dont hear to much when talking service packs: increased performance….but tis true. There are a…Read more
In the next month we will be adding new categories to the blog and bringing in some new Product and Program Managers to talk about R2, Longhorn Server, and Small Business Server. We will have an RSS feed for each of the categories and a bio section so everyone can learn a little bit about some of…Read more
Have you ever attempted to access a folder that you didnt have permission to? Are you an administrator who is concerned about security principals without the proper permissions seeing the names of files and folders they dont have permissions to? SP1 and x64 address these concerns by making inacessible files and folders invisible to users…Read more
Cool stuff here – Windows Server Update Services has reached the RC milestone. You can download a version of Update Services here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/updateservices/evaluation/trial/default.mspx What does this have to do with x64 you say? In addition to providing updates for SQL, MSDE, Office, Windows, (and eventually EVERY MS technology…really it will) – it also provides update for…Read more
