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Updates July 31, 2013 6 min read

Software Defined Networking (SDN): Double-Clicking into our Point of View

A couple of weeks ago we spoke about our approach to Software Defined Networking (SDN) – an approach that is open and extensible, driven by experience and most importantly, one that lets you leverage your existing investments.

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Events July 3, 2013 1 min read

Getting Started with PowerShell 3.0 Jump Start

Don’t miss this opportunity; get your staff together and learn about PowerShell right from the source! Join Jeffrey Snover, the inventor of PowerShell, together with Jason Helmick, Senior Technologist at Concentrated Technology, as they take you through the ins and outs of using PowerShell for real-time problem solutions and automations.

Updates June 28, 2013 3 min read

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) – New Windows Server 2012 R2 Device Access and Information Protection

As you will have seen at Microsoft TechEd North America and Europe, we have just delivered the Preview Release of Windows Server 2012 R2 with a stunning amount of new capability that is Cloud First.

Updates June 25, 2013 1 min read

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview is Now Available for Download

Today at TechEd Europe 2013 we announced availability of the System Center 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 R2 previews.

Updates June 6, 2013 6 min read

Transforming your Datacenter with Software-Defined Networking (SDN): Part I

With server virtualization, you are able to decouple a compute instance from the underlying hardware.

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Updates June 5, 2013 3 min read

Storage Transformation

Organizations face many challenges when it comes to storage.

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Updates June 4, 2013 2 min read

Hybrid Cloud Computing with Windows Server and System Center

Over the past 15 months, we’ve delivered 3 waves of industry leading datacenter innovations with System Center 2012, Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 SP1.

Events June 3, 2013 1 min read

Brad Anderson at TechEd 2013: Delivering on our vision with cloud-first approach

About 2 months ago, Brad Anderson kicked off a more regular and in depth cadence of blogging on our Microsoft Server and Cloud Blogs through the In the Cloud Blog.

Events June 3, 2013 5 min read

TechEd North America 2013 Editor’s Choice: Windows Server

Welcome to the start of TechEd North America 2013! So far, we’ve kicked off the conference with a post and video on the new Microsoft Cloud OS YouTube channel from Microsoft Server and Tools President Satya Nadella discussing “The Enterprise Era”.

Updates March 12, 2013 1 min read

Real World Best Practices for Hyper-V and update on Slow Login Hotfixes from the Premier Field Engineering Platform Team

Hey everyone, Thought I would share an article or two from the Ask Premier Field Engineering Platform Team Blog.

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Updates March 11, 2013 8 min read

Server Performance Advisor (SPA) 3.0

Starting wit Windows Server 2008, we have published a server tuning guide each release designed to help system administrators and IT professionals get the best performance out of their server deployments.

Updates February 26, 2013 4 min read

WS-Management ISO/IEC Standard

Evolution of standards-based management in Windows In a world where management has shifted from managing one server to managing many complex, heterogeneous servers and clouds, standards-based management—long supported by Microsoft—has become essential.