Common Engineering Criteria for Products shipping in FY2007
(These criteria are in addition to previous years' criteria.) 
Improved Feedback Platform
To facilitate a consistent user experience and improved product quality, all infrastructure server products shall use a standardized model for gathering, acknowledging, and acting upon user feedback.
IPv6 Support
All infrastructure server products shall support IPv6 as well as IPv4. In addition, all products shall be configurable to run in dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) or IPv6-only modes.
Web Services Adoption
To facilitate interoperability, all new communication protocols between infrastructure server products and client systems shall take advantage of the work that Microsoft and its partners are doing with respect to Web services—specifically, the WS-* specifications, including WS-Management.
Improved Diagnostics
To facilitate troubleshooting, all infrastructure server products shall follow consistent guidelines for which events are raised, when those events are raised, and how they are raised. User privacy must be considered when raising an event so that sensitive data is not compromised.
Optimized for Active Directory
To ensure full compatibility with Active Directory, all infrastructure server products must comply with the requirements listed in the "S1.0 Active Directory" section of the Microsoft Certified for Windows Server 2003 Application Specification.
For requirement S1.3 in Section 2 of the specification, products shall implement the option "Obtain this information directly from Active Directory."
Security Configuration Wizard
To facilitate strong security, all infrastructure server products shall include a Security Configuration Wizard for each identified server role.
Support Native x64 Execution
In addition to the 2005 criteria “64-bit Support,” all infrastructure server products shall support native 64-bit execution on x64 systems (AMD x64 and Intel EM64T) for at least one version of the product.
Standardized Content Model
To make technical information easier to find, all infrastructure server products shall use the same content model for both printed and online documentation.
Microsoft Update Serviceability
To facilitate a consistent mechanism for the application of software updates, all general-distribution releases—including security updates and service packs—shall be made available through Microsoft Update.
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