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Guest Blog: How Information Technology (IT) Can Still Invest in Innovation Today 

Hi- I’m Joe Homnick, principal owner of Homnick Systems and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions, located in Boca Raton, Florida.  I am a Microsoft Regional Director Ambassador and trainer for the Microsoft Metro program, which targets early adopters of Microsoft technologies for the last five years.

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Download the New IIS SEO Toolkit Beta 

Download the New IIS SEO Toolkit Beta   Do you ever wonder what it would be like to tirelessly explore the Internet as a search engine crawler? What would you find? Would the sites you meet help you or are you on your own? Would the sites tell you where important information lives or must.

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Windows Server 2008 and Windows vista SP2 Available for download! 

Today we are pleased to announce the Release to Web (RTW) of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.  SP2, a combined service pack for both operating systems encapsulated in a single installer, will simplify deployment, management, and support for IT Pros.

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CTP of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 available today! 

It was almost exactly one year ago that we signed off on beta 2 of Windows HPC Server 2008 and today we made available the Community Technical Preview (CTP) of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2.

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Windows Storage Server 2008 is here! 

Hi, my name is Bala Kasiviswanathan, director of Storage Solutions Marketing here at Microsoft, and I’m pleased to announce the release of Windows Storage Server 2008 (WSS08) to our OEM partners. WSS08 is built upon Windows Server 2008 – the industry-leading file services platform.

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Windows Server 2008 Service pack 2 has reached rtm! 

On Wednesday April 29th, the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2) was achieved! Windows Server 2008 has seen great success and SP2 will make it that much better! SP2 includes all updates delivered since the release of Windows Server 2008, as well as support for new types of hardware.

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Try Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Today! 

Last week we announced the Release Candidate (RC) for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2. We initially made it available for TechNet and MSDN subscribers. Today, we’re making it available to anyone interested in testing SP2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 prior to final release.

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Hyper-V certificate expiration and resolution 

For those of you who’ve enabled the Hyper-V role in WS08. It has been determined that a certificate error can occur resulting in the inability to start or connect to virtual machines running on Windows Server 2008 or Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008.

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Best Practices Analyzer Resolution Guidance Now Available Online 

Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) is a server management tool included with Windows Server® 2008 R2. BPA can help administrators reduce best practice violations by scanning one or more roles that are installed on Windows Server 2008 R2, and reporting best practice violations to the administrator.

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Live: the Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta TechCenter 

Have you already downloaded and started kicking the tires on Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta? Here’s your chance to read prerelease documentation about how to configure and use technologies available with Windows Server 2008 R2.