Planning your path to Windows Server 2025: What organizations are prioritizing in 2026
Windows Server Summit 2026 has been fine‑tuned for practical, engineering‑led guidance that focuses on operating Windows Server efficiently at scale.
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Windows Server in 1st place in World Wide Server Market
According to the latest Worlwide Quarterly Server Tracker from IDC, Windows Server revenues in 2005 exceeded UNIX servers, putting Windows Server ahead of UNIX for the first time in overall server OS sales. If you follow this kind of thing, you can read more on Windows Server site and the IDC Press Release site.
Virtualization as a Platform Feature – Part II
“Should I virtualize everything?” This is a question I am frequently asked by customers who are in the earlier phases of virtualization. There are a number of things to consider, including both technology and other factors. A couple of years ago, even some virtualization industry players encouraged customers to attempt to virtualize everything right now.
Windows Server 2003 R2 now available!
As you probably know, Windows Server 2003 R2 was released to manufacturing (RTM) back in early December 2005. When we RTM a product, there is usually a delay of about 2 months before it is widely available. Availability can vary by channel, but generally it becomes available in most places around the same time.
Moving UNIX Units
As you may know, there are lots of folks in our division that think about Unix. Whether that’s Unix interoperability, Unix migration or the Unix roadmap of the system providers.
Virtual Server 2005 R2 in time for the holidays
There are some partners and customers with beta code of Virtual Server 2005 SP1 that is set to expire at the end of the month, and they need to know where to get their hands on the RTM version of Virtual Server 2005 R2.
Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 – Get the details here!
Guy Haycock here – SBS Product Manager. While many of you will be following the news and excitement around the release of Windows Server 2003 R2 today, we wanted to be sure that you saw the related news on Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 (SBS 2003 R2).
Next Generation of Windows Networking at the IPv6 Summit
Ian Hameroff here; a first-time blogger, long-time reader. I’m a product manager within the Windows Server Division and am focused on the advanced networking technologies. I wanted to talk about a brand new networking stack coming in Windows Server “Longhorn” (and Windows Vista).
More from the floor of SC’05
Gates’ keynote from Supercomputing 2005 went well based on our un-scientific polls on the show floor. By well I mean this pro-Linux and non-MS crowd said he hit on good points re: HPC, was interesting and showed good demos.
802.1x Authentication for Wired Networks – A vulnerability note
Thanks to Steve Riley for pointing out some of the vulnerabilities about my post with using 802.1x to secure wired networks: (The whitepaper from this post does address these concerns) Essentially, the vulnerability is a weakness in the 802.1x protocol — it authenticates only upon connection establishment and assumes all traffic after authentication is legitimate.
New 802.1x and IPSec Whitepaper for Wired Networks
I have talked to many IT Pros over the years about using IEEE 802.1x to secure their wireless networks. One thing that I always found interesting is the number of people who are unaware that 802.1x isn’t just for wireless networks….wired too! If you network switches support 802.
SMB2 Protocol – what is a Symbolic Link?
I had a comment from my last post about the new SMB2 protocol that I wanted to follow up on…There was mention of support for ‘Symbolic Links’ in the post and Mr. Kevin Owen asked for some clarification.
Windows Server R2 DFS Replication Chat
Want to get a better understanding of the new DFS Namespace and Replication in the upcoming release of R2? Join the DFS chat on Oct 27 at 10AM PST. This is your chance to chat with the developers and product managers responsible for this nifty new technology.