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 the idea that IT has to support the linchpins of...

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 this week asserts that Windows Server 2008 can...

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 part of the same product family, called Windows...

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 a couple of days now I’ve posted about the basics...

With some estimates predicting that as much as 60 percent of companies' data resides outside their corporate data centers, how can solution providers go about managing such an onslaught of information across distributed environments? Companies cannot survive without some form of data protection,...

This article describes the differences between Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 when you use the Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) client to remotely connect to the server for administrative purposes. In Windows Server 2003, you can start the RDC client (mstsc.exe) with the /console switch to...

For important information you should know prior to deploying and using the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 operating system, including known issues, see readme.htm on this page. You should familiarize yourself with all of the known issues listed in that document prior to installing the software. For late...

New "Network Direct" RDMA Interface Available with Windows Server 2008 Windows HPC Server 2008 introduces a new low-latency RDMA network API known as "Network Direct". This RDMA interface in addition to and distinct from the existing "Winsock Direct" interface. The...

Earlier today Microsoft and Ready-to-Run Software released to web the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) version of the FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions for IIS 7.0 on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista. This build now includes a combined installation package for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows. Listed...

Sun is now a serious vendor of x64 hardware. As a major element of its strategy, Sun supports Microsoft Windows in addition to Solaris and Linux. A new blueprint, " Installing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on Sun x64 Servers ", demonstrates that Sun is serious about this strategy. The blueprint...