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Microsoft has just announced the upcoming availability of free training on Private Cloud for the next month.
The session is opened for the entire world, and those interested in it should access the special webpage that the Redmond-based company designed for registration.
The training will take place on February 2... |
23 January 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Customers looking to get started using the hypervisor that Microsoft provides with its latest version of Windows Server can watch the video embedded above in order to gain some insight into the technology.
Put together by Dave Northey from Microsoft Ireland, the video demo is focused on installing and getting Hyper... |
14 November 2011
08:58 GMT |
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Microsoft is recommending a new source of technical content on topics including virtualization and Cloud that also covers its own offerings.
Creating an account on PaperShare is free of charge, and the only move that IT professionals need to make to access in excess of 26,000 shared items available on the site, acc... |
14 November 2011
05:53 GMT |
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A new download from Microsoft is designed to streamline the process of resolving server issues, while working in tandem with Microsoft Customer Service and Support.
Customers can head over to the Microsoft Download Center and grab the Windows Server Solutions Log Collector Tool, which is available free of charge.
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7 November 2011
07:41 GMT |
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Microsoft is building on its current investments designed to bridge its own technologies with Apache Hadoop. Specifically, the Redmond company is working to offer customers leveraging Windows Server and Windows Azure Hadoop-based distributions designed to expand existing business intelligence (BI) capabilities.
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13 October 2011
12:21 GMT |
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It’s not like Microsoft has been holding back punches in the face-off with VMware, but the Redmond company has just upped the ante with a new campaign designed to highlight the advantages of Cloud technologies over virtualization solutions. The software giant’s VMlimited site and video are direct jabs at... |
29 August 2011
09:11 GMT |
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Users thinking of making the jump to Windows Home Server 2011 might want to have a look at a collection of free resources from Microsoft. Available free of charge via the Microsoft Download Center, the downloads are designed to offer insight into the latest iteration of Microsoft’s home server operating system... |
29 August 2011
06:27 GMT |
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The newly-launched Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform website is designed to be an one-stop destination for customers building private Cloud using the company’s server technologies. However, in addition to a range of resources on private Clouds, the new site also offers information, guidance and products nece... |
26 August 2011
05:52 GMT |
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Version 3.1 of the Linux Integration Services Version for Hyper-V is now available for download from Microsoft. As was the case in the past, Linux Integration Services Version 3.1 for Hyper-V can be grabbed free of charge via the Microsoft Download Center. The resources are essentially a collection of drivers &ldqu... |
28 July 2011
10:00 GMT |
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The Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0 Content Map is now available via TechNet, the result of an ongoing process, as Microsoft put it. According to the software giant, the content map is designed to make it as easy as possible for members of the AD FS 2.0 community to find relevant materials about the... |
22 April 2011
05:33 GMT |
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Having already announced that it signed-off on Windows Home Server 2011, formerly codenamed Vail, Microsoft now reveals that Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials has also been released to manufacturing. Of course, this should not come as a surprise, especially since the two operating systems are essentially joi... |
1 April 2011
07:39 GMT |
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SGI has just announced that the company has developed “the largest and most powerful” Windows server released to date, which uses no less than 128 Intel Xeon processing cores as well as up to 1TB of system memory.The new server is called the Altix UV 100 and is built around 3U rackmount enclosures, that a... |
17 March 2011
11:06 GMT |
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Microsoft has identified no less than five problem areas for branch office and mid-market IT related to Windows Server, and is asking for input from customers.Mike van de Merwe and Manisha Patel are working together in an attempt to harvest feedback from businesses on the technology, business, and environmental chal... |
24 January 2011
10:36 GMT |
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Microsoft is off to a very generous start of 2011 announcing a new promotion designed to allow participants to win loads of cash, as the company put it. The Microsoft Big Cash Promotion went live today, January 3rd, 2011, and will end on March 31st, 2011, with the software giant offering in excess of $400,000 worth ... |
3 January 2011
05:15 GMT |
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Microsoft is less than a month away from wrapping up WebMatrix a solution offered to simplify the development and deployment of websites on top of Windows. The way I see it, WebMatrix is designed to draw developers away from LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) to the software giant’s technologies, including W... |
22 December 2010
04:45 GMT |
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Despite its increasingly strong focus on the Cloud, Microsoft continues to push forward its server business, with a new Windows Server platform in the works, on top of what the company shared with the public.It’s the case with Windows Server Codenamed Breckenridge, which is currently under development, accordi... |
2 November 2010
12:06 GMT |
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The number of companies that are moving to take advantage of the Windows and Linux interoperability deal inked by Microsoft and Novell back in 2006 continues to grow, with the duo pointing out that customers are attracted to the benefits catalyzed by their collaboration. Two recent studies from Forrester Consulting a... |
24 June 2010
05:51 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering IT professionals, but not only, the chance to prove just how much of a geek they truly are. The Redmond company has launched a new contest on Facebook, and is inviting users to answer IT-related questions and assess their level of ‘geekiness.’ With the Windows Server IT Geek Quiz bei... |
10 June 2010
07:50 GMT |
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In the second half of February 2010, Microsoft released Windows MultiPoint Server 2010, a new offering designed to illustrate the evolution of the company’s vision in terms of shared computing resources. As of May 18th, the software giant is also offering guidance on how to deploy and configure the operating sy... |
20 May 2010
06:09 GMT |
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Microsoft has launched a new discount program called “Kick-it,” catalyzed by the summer of football (2010 football World Cup in South Africa), an initiative designed to help children play through donations made for customers buying Windows Server hosting. The software giant collaborates with 11 hosting pa... |
19 May 2010
13:11 GMT |
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Looking for a free search engine optimization toolkit tailored to all the major search engines? Than look no further than Microsoft’s SEO Toolkit, which is designed to allow webmasters and web administrators to adapt their sites to not just Bing, but also Google and Yahoo. In fact, the promise from the Redmond ... |
14 January 2010
10:21 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed officially a zero-day security vulnerability affecting Internet Information Services (IIS). The security hole was initially reported just ahead of Christmas on December 23rd, and the Redmond company provided the first response at the end of the past week. So far, the issue in question affects... |
28 December 2009
04:54 GMT |
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Microsoft has made available for download multiple resources designed to streamline the usage of its upcoming Distributed Application Server offering. Developed under the code name Dublin, the solution is designed as an extension to Windows Server. The tutorials delivered by the Redmond company for what continues to ... |
21 December 2009
03:34 GMT |
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Microsoft is pointing customers running Windows Server in combination with older releases of Symantec Endpoint Protection and Symantec Antivirus to solution made available by the security outfit. Robert Paige, senior program manager Windows Partner Application Ecosystem Team, recommended that all the upgrades be app... |
14 December 2009
09:19 GMT |
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Microsoft has melted the groups behind the Windows Server & Solutions and the Windows Azure Cloud platform into a single organization. Dubbed the Server & Cloud Division, the new Server & Tools Business unit which will jointly develop both the server-side and the Cloud-based flavors of what is essentially, at the cor... |
9 December 2009
10:00 GMT |
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Microsoft and NComputing have partnered over building solutions on top of the multiuser computing concept, which defines a model in which the resources of a single server machine are used to power experiences for multiple computer users concomitantly. Per the agreement inked by the two companies, NComputing will embr... |
26 November 2009
09:17 GMT |
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By April 2010, Microsoft intends for the new green server lab that it is building several miles from its headquarters to be fully functional, with all the disparate server labs on the Redmond campus being transitioned to the new location. The software giant’s end goal is to make another step forward when it com... |
15 September 2009
09:33 GMT |
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Microsoft is not by any means a stranger to Feature Packs, as an additional avenue to deliver enhancements to software products in addition to plain vanilla updates and major upgrades such as service packs. In the past, Windows Vista, Windows XP and Visual Studio were among the technologies for which the Redmond-base... |
7 September 2009
04:45 GMT |
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Microsoft is laboring effortlessly to convince web developers and hosting companies relying on LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) to give WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) a try. One of the largest impediments that the Redmond-based company has to overcome is PHP performance on Windows, but it is offering solutions... |
2 September 2009
06:05 GMT |
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In a time when Microsoft is feeling the full impact of the global economic downturn, the open-source Linux operating system is flourishing. While Windows client revenue has let the Redmond company suffering in the 2009 fiscal year, producing three quarters inferior when compared to FY2008, Linux revenue continues to ... |
27 August 2009
03:43 GMT |
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The TechNet Script Center Gallery was introduced last week by Microsoft, in an attempt to help simplify the work of IT professionals. The Script Center Gallery, which went live on the TechNet portal on August 13th, 2009, offers an extensive collection of scripts for IT pros. The initiative represents TechNet’s ... |
17 August 2009
04:36 GMT |
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Network administrators looking to guarantee that the components of their server infrastructure are running under normal parameters and under their control can now access a new tool from Microsoft designed to sniff out rogue DHCP servers. With the rogue detection solution, admins have a tool complete with graphical us... |
6 July 2009
04:59 GMT |
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Clerity, a leader in the field of mainframe migration and modernization solutions, has recently announced that it is enlarging its already popular UniKix mainframe rehosting software technology so as to add support for the operating systems included in the Microsoft Windows Server family and to run them on x86, x64, ... |
17 June 2009
00:58 GMT |
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Windows Azure is a new direction in Microsoft's approach to building platforms not only because of its exclusive focus on the Cloud, but also because it will introduce a new licensing model compared to the company's client and server operating systems. In this regard, Windows Azure will never leave Microsof... |
24 March 2009
06:45 GMT |
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With the introduction of a new data center architecture, Cisco made a key move in bringing to life its Data Center 3.0 strategy. The Cisco Unified Computing System, in combination with services and an open ecosystem, has Microsoft's blessing. The Redmond company revealed that it has inked an agreement with Cisco... |
16 March 2009
10:22 GMT |
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On March 10, 2009, Microsoft released three security bulletins designed to deal with vulnerabilities in Windows client and server platforms. Security Bulletin MS09-008 rated Important is focused on patching issues in DNS and WINS Server impacting Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008. The ... |
16 March 2009
07:48 GMT |
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Windows 7 Release Candidate is at most a couple of months away, with April 2009 as deadline, while the RTM could be reached within half a year, as early as August, but Microsoft is looking beyond the next iteration of the Windows platform. That's right, Windows 8 is already cooking over in Redmond, with the soft... |
11 March 2009
04:20 GMT |
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Federal Server Core Configuration is what Microsoft referred to as a standardized server configuration designed for governments. In this regard, FSCC has been tailored to the specific needs of governmental organizations with Microsoft promising that customers will be able to build a secure and reliable server environ... |
5 March 2009
05:07 GMT |
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The start of this week marked yet another chapter in the Windows vs. Linux saga, another example of how the “vs.” is fading more and more. A new Windows and Linux marriage was inked by rivals Microsoft and Red Hat, but solely in the church of virtualization. The two companies stressed that the marriage wa... |
17 February 2009
07:30 GMT |
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No, Windows Server is not going to come in a new pepperoni flavor, in addition to the traditional SKU, but fact is that editions of Microsoft's server-based Windows operating system will play a role in running the next-generation store system platform for the Domino’s Pizza delivery chain. The world's... |
2 February 2009
09:56 GMT |
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Earlier this week Microsoft made available for download Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Standard, and now the company has launched another offering, to accompany the taste of its new server operating system lineup that it's delivering to customers. Windows Small Business Server 2008 Premium went live via ... |
14 November 2008
05:48 GMT |
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Microsoft has come out with a new offering of free software including the Windows server platform and the yet-to-be released Azure Cloud operating system. With the BizSpark program, the Redmond company is aiming to provide startups with a stable and free platform composed of various of its software products in order ... |
5 November 2008
10:25 GMT |
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UrlScan is a free security tool available for download from Microsoft designed to bulletproof websites developed and running on top of Windows server operating systems and Internet Information Services. Delivered in order to filter SQL injection attacks, UrlScan is now at version 3.1, less than three months following... |
3 November 2008
07:11 GMT |
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At the end of September 2008, Microsoft unveiled that the next versions of Visual Studio and .NET Framework would span across not only the client and server operating systems but also across services and devices. Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 are expected to drop either in late 2009 or by the first half o... |
8 October 2008
13:31 GMT |
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The Windows operating system allows you to install and use various types of server side scripts such as ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, using the built-in IIS (Internet Information Services) web server. If you are looking for a simple solution to select a web server that will run on all Windows versions, substituting the IIS or P... |
31 October 2007
11:57 GMT |
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Microsoft and Sun have tied the knot for Windows Server on Sun x64 systems, as the result of the two companies expanding their strategic alliance. The new partnership is essentially focused on two aspects, making Sun a Windows Server OEM and the continuation of Windows Server deployments on Sun x64 systems. In this c... |
12 September 2007
12:56 GMT |
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The "unholy" alliance between Microsoft and Novell inked back in November 2006 with the purpose of producing interoperability and intellectual property assurance designed to bridge the proprietary and open source platform in heterogeneous infrastructures has evolved with the introduction of a Windows and Linux intero... |
12 September 2007
03:42 GMT |
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Microsoft claims that Linux and UNIX are nothing compared to the Windows operating system in terms of server side solutions. And the perspective offered by the Redmond company reveals not only that Windows Server leaves Linux and UNIX biting the dust, but that not even Mainframe solutions compare to the apex of "reli... |
23 August 2007
14:07 GMT |
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Microsoft revealed that Windows is the only choice when it comes down to the offer of operating systems available on the market. Applauding the Windows platform as an epitome of reliability, security, total cost of ownership (TCO), interoperability and manageability, the Redmond company downplayed the relevance of th... |
23 August 2007
12:49 GMT |
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Microsoft has applauded the fact that the Windows solution ecosystem continues to flourish as more and more organizations are abandoning mainframe infrastructure and are embracing the Redmond Company's platform. The migration from legacy system to the Windows operating system is backed by an organization spawned... |
29 May 2007
10:50 GMT |
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