Solution: Server management

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World IPv6 Day and IIS 7 

Wednesday June 8 2011 is World IPv6 Day and there will be plenty of representation by IIS7 on the Windows Server side. From Microsoft we will have participation in this event by Microsoft.com, Bing.com and Xbox.com; all of which run IIS7 web servers on their front end.
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Windows PowerShell 2.0 language specification licensed 

Windows PowerShell is an important cornerstone of Windows Server manageability.  Windows Server 2008 R2 shipped with Windows PowerShell 2.0, hundreds of new cmdlets, and became the technology behind tools like Server Manager. Today Microsoft is announcing that we are licensing the language specification for Windows PowerShell 2.0 under the Microsoft Community Promise.
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RemoteFX is Ready! 

Shortly after the acquisition of Calista Technologies in early 2008, my family and I packed up our things and started the drive from the beautiful but rainy Northwest to sunny Silicon Valley.
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Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 – Now Available! 

  As originally communicated in Michael Kleef’s blog post, today Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 is available for download.  You can experience the  new virtualization capabilities – Dynamic Memory in Hyper-V and RemoteFX – by downloading the service pack from the Microsoft Download Center if you are currently a Windows Server 2008 R2 customer.
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Simplify your move to the cloud with MAP Toolkit 5.5 

The next version of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit—version 5.5— is now available for free download.  Download MAP 5.5 Simplify planning for migration to the latest Microsoft products and technologies with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.5.
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Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Ships! 

We have finished version 3 of Windows HPC Server! The verbose, official, and approved name is Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Suite signaling that we are leveraging Windows Server 2008 R2 as our core operating system but make no mistake, this is the big v3 release, our most ambitious release.
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Cloud Computing a Catalyst for Server Growth? 

In an interesting piece by Ryan Nichols at Computerworld yesterday: Cloud computing by the numbers: What do all the statistics mean, Nichols summarizes some recent research findings on the market potential of cloud computing, quoting impressive market forecasts from sources such as Gartner ($150 billion by 2013), Merrill Lynch ($160 billion by 2011),and AMI Partners.