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• Windows Home Server Power Pack 1

  Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 will be automatically downloaded to Windows Home Servers through Windows Update if Automatic Updates is enabled on your home server or you choose “Update Now…” from the Settings tab of your Windows Home Server Console... Posted Jul 21 2008, 07:51 PM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Server, Home

• Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Failover Clustering Options

  There are many ways to implement Windows Server Failover Clustering with Hyper-V. I could actually find five unique methods to do it. Some of them will actually not give you a fully fault-tolerant solution, but most of them actually make sense in specific... Posted Jun 22 2008, 05:44 PM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Server, Hyper-V

• Previewing Windows Server 2008 R2

  Microsoft seems like the most unlikely company to ship products that really support Enterprise 2.0. After all, the company is the poster child for packaged software. But everything the company is saying here in Orlando at TechEd 2008 is consistent with... Posted Jun 12 2008, 08:22 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Server, Windows, 2008, R2

• Microsoft Says Windows Server 2008 Cuts Power Consumption By 10%

  With electricity prices continuing to skyrocket and processors getting ever hungrier for power, it was only a matter of time beforeMicrosoft (NSDQ: MSFT) chimed in with claims that its latest software can cut energy bills. A Microsoft white paper released... Posted Jun 11 2008, 09:40 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Server, Windows, 2008

• Try Out and Help Test Windows Home Server Power Pack 1

  Today, the Windows Home Server Team has announced the availability of the Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Release Candidate for download on Microsoft Connect. You can read Charlie Kindel's post announcing today's release on the Windows Home Server... Posted Jun 10 2008, 07:34 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Server, Home, Windows

• Windows Small Business Server 2008

  Windows Small Business Server 2008 (Windows SBS 2008) is an integrated server solution that helps you protect your business data, increase productivity and present a more professional image to customers. By providing many of the features used by larger... Posted May 30 2008, 08:35 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Server, Windows, Business, Small, 2008#

• Windows server 2003 sp2 blocker tool to be removed from windows update and automatic update

  Just a reminder - It has been a little over a year since we released Windows Server 2003 SP2 . When we release a Service Pack at Microsoft, we want to make sure that IT professionals and system administrators have ample time to assess the service pack... Posted May 28 2008, 09:25 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Server, Windows, SP2, 2003

• Microsoft ® Windows Server ™ 2003 Performance Advisor

  Microsoft ® Windows Server ™ 2003 Performance Advisor is the latest version of Server Performance Advisor , which is a simple but robust tool that helps you diagnose the root causes of performance problems in a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 deployment... Posted May 20 2008, 07:30 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Server, Windows, 2003

• Windows Small Business Server 2008 - Part 1

  Today, Microsoft announced the release of Windows Essential Business Server 2008 release candidate 0 (RC0) and the pending release of Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2008 RC0. Both products, along with Windows Home Server, are now marketed as being... Posted May 14 2008, 08:27 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Server, Windows, 2008, Business, Small

• NTFS Compression Windows Home Server

  The Windows Home Server team has solved a software bug that may affect files that are compressed using Advanced Attributes (NTFS compression). NTFS compression can be enabled on an individual file, folder or at the hard drive level and is sometimes enabled... Posted May 08 2008, 10:00 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Server, Home, Windows

• SQL Server 2008 Management Improvements – SQL Server Provider for PowerShell (Part 3)

  At the SQL Connections conference in April of 2008 I gave a presentation on some of the new Manageability Improvements for SQL Server 2008. In this blog post I’ll talk about one of those new improvements – our new PowerShell provider for SQL Server. For... Posted Apr 30 2008, 05:41 PM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Server, 2008, Microsoft, SQL

• CoreConfigurator

  Readers of my blogs know how much I dislike the use of the command line, no matter how adept I am at it, hence my affection for VistaBootPRO ( Windows Vista BCD Editor ), FullArmor Workflow Studio ( PowerShell GUI ), and now….tada…. CoreConfigurator ... Posted Apr 28 2008, 05:46 PM by Admin with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Server, Windows, Core

• HPC Server 2008 April CTP Release Now Available

  Please see the latest Community Technology Preview (CTP) release of Windows HPC Server 2008 at the beta program community site ( http://Connect.Microsoft.Com ). If you aren't yet a registered beta program participant, then you'll first need to... Posted Apr 23 2008, 08:47 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Server, HPC

• Windows Server reliability crashes in 2007

  The downtime experienced by Windows Server 2003 increased 25 percent to nine hours per server per year, while the reliability of mainstream server-based Linux distributions improved significantly, according to a Yankee Group survey. The research firm's... Posted Apr 17 2008, 09:04 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Server, Windows, Crash

• Reducing the Server Core disk footprint

  In the Server Core installation option, there is a way to remove the server roles and optional features from the disk, to free up more space. In addition to reducing disk usage, this could be used to ensure an administrator doesn’t add a role or feature... Posted Apr 17 2008, 09:01 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Server, Core