Microsoft Windows Server Blog

Updates March 29, 2012 18 min read

Standards-based Management in Windows Server “8”

Microsoft Windows has long supported standards-based management.

Updates March 28, 2012 7 min read

Microsoft Online Backup Service

A number of people view the cloud in all or nothing terms – you move everything to the cloud or you leave everything where it is.

Updates March 22, 2012 1 min read

Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V has passed Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 4+ (EAL 4+)

I’m going to interrupt our flow of Windows Server “8” blog posts to share this hot off the press news regarding Windows Server 2008/R2 and Common Criteria.

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Updates March 20, 2012 11 min read

Building an Optimized Private Cloud using Windows Server “8” Server Core

I like to say that Windows Server “8” is a transformational release.

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Updates March 15, 2012 13 min read

Windows Server “8” – Taking Server Application Storage to Windows File Shares

Whenever I work with the Windows Server “8” storage, I get a huge smile as I think about what customers are going to be able to do and the excellent engineering that went into the features.

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Updates March 7, 2012 11 min read

Rocking the Windows Server “8” Administrative Experience

Windows Server has always distinguished and prided itself on its Administrative Experience.

Updates March 1, 2012 2 min read

Windows Server “8” beta available now!

The beta of Windows Server “8” is now available for IT professionals and software developers around the world to download, to evaluate, and to give us feedback on.

October 14, 2011 1 min read

Windows Server 8: Standards-Based Storage Management

Take a look at Jeffrey Snover’s blog post, Distinguished Engineer and Lead Architect for Window Server, where he discusses standards-based storage management in the next release of Windows Server codenamed “Windows Server 8”.

Updates September 20, 2011 1 min read

Storage and Continuous Availability Enhancements in Windows Server 8

Check out Thomas Pfenning’s blog post, General Manager Server and Tools, where he discusses the storage and availability enhancements in the next release of Windows Server codenamed “Windows Server 8”.

Updates September 11, 2011 1 min read

Windows Server 8: An Introduction

Take a look at Bill Laing’s blog, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft’s Server and Cloud business, to get an overview of the next release of Windows Server codenamed Windows Server 8.

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Updates July 15, 2011 1 min read

Simplify your customers’ cloud migration planning with MAP 6.0

The next version of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit—version 6.

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Announcements July 5, 2011 1 min read

Microsoft a Leader in x86 Server Virtualization

Great news to share with our Windows Server blog readers – Gartner published the 2011 Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure, in which Microsoft is listed among the leaders, along with Citrix and VMware.