Tag: Windows Server
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February 2007 CTP of Windows Server “Longhorn” Released
As a number of sites and blogs have reported, last weekend we posted another Community Technology Preview (CTP) build of WindowsServer “Longhorn” to the Microsoft Connect site for our TechBeta participants. The February 2007 CTP is another milestone on the march to Beta 3, which is still on track for the first half of this -
Windows Home Server Beta 2
Windows Home Server has reached the Beta 2 milestone! While previous releases have been tested by 1000+ Microsoft employees and some of our hardware and software partners, we are now starting to invite a broader group of external testers to participate in Beta 2. People interested in participating in Beta 2 can register here so we have -
Windows Server virtualization calculator
Check out the new Windows Server virtualization calculator to get an estimate on the number of OS licenses needed, and the costs, to virtualize different datacenter configurations. The calculator is pre-populated with the US dollar Open agreement Estimated Retail Prices for Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition and Datacenter Edition (yellow chart below), which you can update with your organization’s -
Bill Gates announces Windows Home Server
I suspect all you fans of Windows Server will be interested in this news… Last night, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Bill Gates announced Windows Home Server, an new version of Windows focused on multi-PC households. From the Microsoft press-release: During his keynote address, Gates announced Windows Home Server, a new software product -
Video training for Virtual Server
While away on holiday, a company called TrainSignal released a training tool for Virtual Server 2005 R2 and Virtual PC. I watched the demo video and it offered clear, step-by-step training for setting up virtual machines (running on WinServer 2003 SE). Check it out if you’ve made a New Year’s resolution to start working with virtual machines. And -
Administering Windows Server 2003 from Windows Vista
One of the more popular questions on our Windows Server “Longhorn” discussion forums is around the Windows Server 2003 Administration Tools Pack. In particular, people have been asking why they can’t use the Admin Pack on Windows Vista. It can be installed, but it gives error messages and many of the administration tools seem to -
Special “Holiday” Edition of Windows Server “Longhorn” Released
Some of you may have seen blog postings reporting on the release of a December 2006 CTP of Windows Server “Longhorn”. Well, I can confirm that the rumors are true – we did release a new CTP to our Technical Beta Program participants in the last couple of days. And just in time for Christmas!! -
Windows Server virtualization – a perfect stocking stuffer
Twas the week before Christmas and all through Redmond, not a creature was stirring … except for the Windows Server virtualization development team. These folks gave some select partners early bits (private beta) of Windows Server virtualization (aka, Viridian; aka, hypervisor). Sharing this type of technology with a small group of partners for testing is standard practice. A -
Pre-Register for Beta 3!
As many of you will have heard, we are on track to release our next major milestone of Windows Server “Longhorn” in the first half of 2007. Beta 3 will be feature-complete, and it will be the first *public* milestone of Windows Server “Longhorn”, meaning that we’ll be doing everything we can to get it -
Better Together – The David and David Show
If you’re going to do a webcast about how Windows Vista and Windows Server “Longhorn” are great on their own, but even better together, then there’s no point in having only one presenter do it. So it was decided that we should pair me (David Lowe) with David Zipkin from the Windows Vista team and -
NEC Demos Dynamic Partitioning of CPU and Memory using Longhorn Server
NEC’s news release today says the following: NEC Corporation today announced it has demonstrated the world’s first dynamic partitioning of CPU and memory resources on the Beta 2 version of Microsoft Windows Server, code-named “Longhorn,” using NEC’s enterprise server Express5800/1320Xf. Express5800/1320Xf is a large-scale, high-reliability server that can run up to 32 Intel 64-bit Dual-Core