Planning ahead for Windows Server 2016 end of support
In accordance with the Microsoft Lifecycle Policy, extended support for Windows Server 2016 will end on January 12, 2027.
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VMworld 2007: bigger, broader and Viridian
VMworld 2007 kicked off with Diane Greene, Pat Gelsinger (Intel) and Hector Ruiz (AMD) speaking to what must have been 10,000 people in the Moscone Center. The crowd was larger than the hey-day of JavaOne.
New management tool for Virtual Server and Viridian
You’ll be interested to read Chris’ post about the release of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007. This first version is for managing VMs and apps within Virtual Server 2005. The next version of SCVMM will manage VMs and apps running within Viridian/Windows Server 2008.
Transforming ServerManagerCmd query xml to input xml
Transforming ServerManagerCmd query xml to input xml Hello, my name is Travis Nielsen and I’m a developer on the Server Manager team. Among other things, I have worked on the ServerManagerCmd.exe tool for command line installation.
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.
MSD evolution and leadership
Hi, my name is Brad Anderson and I’m the General Manager, leading product development and engineering for Microsoft’s Management and Solutions Division. Many of you have heard that I recently assumed leadership for MSD after Kirill Tatarinov moved over to lead MS Business Solutions Division.
Windows Server 2008 component poster available
As Andrew pointed out, TechNet magazine just released an updated Windows Server 2008 component poster. Part of the poster is the new hypervisor layer codename Viridian. Here’s a screen scrape of that component. Enjoy.
Service pack for Virtual Server 2005 R2 available
Today we released the final version of Virtual Server 2005 R2 service pack 1. Available at no charge, this service pack adds support for hardware-assisted virtualization and improved backup services and compatibility. A new feature to the service pack is Volume Shadow Services, which provides improved support for backup and disaster recovery.
Xandros hookup
A minor ripple in the server world today as we announced: Xandros will license a broad set of Microsoft server communications protocols I say minor ripple because Xandros isn’t the big man on campus … it’s #40 in the past month, #31 over the past quarter.
Windows Server virtualization at TechEd 2007
For those of you amongst the 14,000 attending TechEd 2007 next week in Orlando, expect to see and learn alot about virtualization. It all starts with Bob Muglia’s keynote on Monday where Jeff Woolsey will reprise his role of virtualization demo dude.
SP2 to You
Based on customer feedback and requests, we have improved the Windows Update, Automatic Update and WSUS user install experience with Windows Server 2003 SP2.
Windows Server 2008, the storage story
With the “official” name of the next Windows server release announced last week at WinHEC (Windows Server 2008….shocker!) and with availability of Beta 3, I figured this was a good time to discuss some of the features as they relate to the storage workload.
Live from WinHEC….It’s WINDOWS SERVER 2008!
Greetings from Los Angeles and the 2007 edition of Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (known on the streets as WinHEC 2007). This yearly confab brings together the industry’s key PC hardware eco-system players to help define and drive what the future of Windows computing will look like.