Windows Storage
Microsoft Partnership with RSA for Information Protection
Hi all – I’m David Hastie, senior product manager in the Identity and Security Business Group here at Microsoft. I wanted to flag an announcement Microsoft made today in the area of information protection and data loss prevention. It involves Rights Management Services in Windows Server 2008. In short, Microsoft and EMC’s security division, Read more
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, Read more
Data protection manager 2007 — now backing up windows server 2008
The Windows Storage Solutions team that manages DPM 2007 is very excited to announce that the ‘Rollup Update’ for System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 is now available for download. The biggest new workload that DPM now has supported protection for is, of course, Windows Server 2008. While DPM2007 has actually been protecting “Longhorn” since Read more
Windows Essential Server Solutions go public
Good news. Today we opened up the Public Preview for Windows Essential Server Solutions – Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008. Visit here to find out how to download and evaluate the Release Candidate 0 versions of both. EBS is available now, SBS will be up within a few weeks – but Read more
Windows Storage Solution Updates at SNW
In the spirit of keeping you updated on Windows Storage Solutions, this week members of our team are off to Orlando, Florida for the bi-annual Storage Networking World (SNW) conference. You may recall that last October at SNW, we announced the RTM of Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 as part of Microsoft’s Universal Distributed Storage Read more
Essential Business Server at Convergence
Lots happening in Orlando at Convergence 2008 – the Microsoft Dynamics users’ conference. Steve Ballmer and vice president Kirill Tatarinov are speaking and the Dynamics team is making a number of announcements, including a partnership with EDS to extend Microsoft Dynamics CRM deployments, a preview of Dynamics AX 2009 (part of the ERP product portfolio), Read more
Essential Business Server blog
The team behind Windows Essential Business Server 2008 for midsized companies (part of the newly announced Windows Essential Server Solutions family and formerly known as “Centro”) has launched a team blog. Group Program Manager Eric Watson provides the introduction: In this Blog, key people that design and develop the product will discuss all of those Read more
SBS myths dispelled…by “Tom”
In the course of talking to many Microsoft partners and customers, the Windows Small Business Server team has learned that there are sometimes misperceptions about the product, in many cases based on experiences with the earlier versions of SBS. In hopes of dispelling some of these “myths,” the team has created a video log by an “SBS guru” named Tom. Take Read more
Building a host cluster with Hyper-V beta
Hyper-V is a cluster-aware feature within Windows Server 2008, offering native support for VM high availability. And now that beta 1 is available, you can check it out yourself. So what are the 10 steps you have to go through to build a host cluster using iSCSI shared storage? Read Robert Larson’s post. Screen captures included Read more
New Domain-Based Namespaces On The Way!
Things have been a little quiet around here since we released Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 (over 250,000 downloads so far and counting!), so I wanted to take this chance to let you know about something that you’ll soon be able to take advantage of in Windows Server 2008. The DFS Namespaces team has let Read more