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“Monad” and Windows Server Longhorn 

I’ve recently seen some articles that have been speculating that we will be including “Monad” in the upcoming release to Windows Server Longhorn, and that we have removed it from the Windows Vista beta 1.  I just wanted to take a minute and comment on some of this speculation.

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Windows Server Longhorn Beta 1 Released 

Hey everybody, As you probably heard by now, today we released the Beta 1 of Windows Vista, which is the next version of the Windows client operating system, previously known as Windows Longhorn.  What you may not know is that we also released Beta 1 of Windows Server Longhorn.

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Access Based Enumeration (ABE) and High Availability Clustering 

We had a good question come back through the blog the other day – “How do you support ABE on clustered file servers?” Although our plans for this integrating this feature are geared more toward the Longhorn timeframe, one of our Program Managers for ABE, Sundar Subbarayan, was able to provide this solution for the.

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The First of July – and Extended Support for Windows 2000 

With its transition from Mainstream Support, today marks the first day (of at least 1,825 – five years’ worth) of Windows 2000 Server’s Extended Support Phase. Windows 2000 entered the marketplace in early 2000. It has been – and remains – a strong, important, and robust product for Microsoft and its customers.

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WSUS Goes Live at TechEd 2005 

Hello – I’m Joseph Dadzie, group program manager for Software Distribution technologies in the Windows Server team.  My team is currently responsible for the infrastructure behind Windows Update and Microsoft Update, the Windows Server Update Services product, the Automatics feature in Windows, Group Policy and the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS).

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x64 Windows beats 64-bit RHEL 4.0 and Solaris 10 in SSL 

Tom Henderson of Network World recently completed testing of X64 Windows in SSL Kernel Mode against other 64-bit OSes. The tests clearly indicate that the x64 editions of Windows Server 2003 show a 15-20% performance advantage over these other 64-bit operating systems.

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SBS 2003 SP1 released! 

SP1 for Small Business Server 2003 has just been released today: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/downloads/sp1/default.mspx or http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=39425 This service pack is a lot more than just Windows Server 2003 SP1, it is a rollup of multiple service packs and updates for SBS 2003.

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Windows Server 2003 R2 Technical Resources 

If you have downloaded the public beta of R2 and are looking for assistance or technical resources on the product, you may find the following helpful: Private R2 Newsgroups: (GREAT Resource)       –  Server name: privatenews.microsoft.com       –  Group: microsoft.private.win2k3server.r2       –  Account Name: privatenews\r2user       –  Password: CPP   Windows Server 2003 R2 TechCenter at Technet:       –  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/r2/default.

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Windows Server 2003 R2 

Hi – My name is Julius Sinkevicius and I’m a Senior Product Manager in the Windows Server division at Microsoft.  One of the projects that I’m working on is on the release of Windows Server 2003 R2.

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Virtual Server 2005 SP1 supports x64 hosts…sign up for the beta 

Steve Ballmer annouced today our beta of Virtual Server 2005 SP1….now supporting x64 as host operating systems.  I have had the personal pleasure of running this x64 version on a 4-way x64 box with 32G of RAM – doing demonstrations has never been easier for me! I can get tons of images up and running.

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Access-Based Enumeration Whitepaper and Tools now available 

As mentioned in previous posts, the Access-Based Enumeration GUI and Command-Line tools and whitepaper would be available as a separate download for SP1.  It can now be downloaded here. Many thanks to Koni for tracking this – truly appreciated. Here is what the folder properties will look like when ABE is enabled.