As you may know, there are lots of folks in our division that think about Unix. Whether that’s Unix interoperability, Unix migration or the Unix roadmap of the system providers. While we rarely discuss Unix in this forum, there were a few items that hit the inbox at once today that happened to catch my Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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, Read more
One of my favorite features of W2k was the distributed file system (DFS). WS03 offered a few improvements to DFS, but nothing compared to the changes in R2 to DFS. Visit the R2 Techcenter to review the technical overview of DFS Namespace and Replication. Read more
If you have downloaded the public beta of R2 and are looking for assistance or technical resources on the product, you may find the following helpful: Private R2 Newsgroups: (GREAT Resource) – Server name: privatenews.microsoft.com – Group: microsoft.private.win2k3server.r2 – Account Name: privatenews\r2user – Password: CPP Windows Server 2003 R2 TechCenter at Technet: – http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/r2/default.mspx Read more
Come and get it!! http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/r2/default.mspx Cheers, Ward Ralston 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
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
