Tag: Longhorn

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Beta 3 Is Go! 

Today we reach another major milestone on the road to Windows Server “Longhorn” with the availability of Beta 3. In addition to being feature-complete, Beta 3 is also our first public release, meaning that millions of IT professionals and developers worldwide can now begin evaluating the product simply by downloading it from our web site.
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Viridian and Virtual Server Timing Updates 

As the person who oversees the development plans, teams and strategy for Microsoft’s virtualization software on desktops and servers, I want to update everyone on the timing of our server virtualization offerings.
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Longhorn and Vista sightings in Austin 

I spent Monday and Tuesday in Austin, TX for meetings with counterparts at Dell and AMD. Doing these meeting back-to-back is much easier now than last year due to these two companies working together. The drive on IH 35 between the two headquarters is only 35 minutes – on a good day I’m told.