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March 1, 2006 1 min read

Windows Server in 1st place in World Wide Server Market

According to the latest Worlwide Quarterly Server Tracker from IDC, Windows Server revenues in 2005 exceeded UNIX servers, putting Windows Server ahead of UNIX for the first time in overall server OS sales.

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February 10, 2006 3 min read

Virtualization as a Platform Feature – Part II

“Should I virtualize everything?” This is a question I am frequently asked by customers who are in the earlier phases of virtualization.

February 1, 2006 1 min read

Windows Server 2003 R2 now available!

As you probably know, Windows Server 2003 R2 was released to manufacturing (RTM) back in early December 2005.

January 25, 2006 3 min read

Moving UNIX Units

As you may know, there are lots of folks in our division that think about Unix.

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December 8, 2005 1 min read

Virtual Server 2005 R2 in time for the holidays

There are some partners and customers with beta code of Virtual Server 2005 SP1 that is set to expire at the end of the month, and they need to know where to get their hands on the RTM version of Virtual Server 2005 R2.

December 6, 2005 2 min read

Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 – Get the details here!

Guy Haycock here – SBS Product Manager. While many of you will be following the news and excitement around the release of Windows Server 2003 R2 today, we wanted to be sure that you saw the related news on Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 (SBS 2003 R2).

November 28, 2005 2 min read

Next Generation of Windows Networking at the IPv6 Summit

Ian Hameroff here; a first-time blogger, long-time reader.

November 17, 2005 1 min read

More from the floor of SC’05

Gates’ keynote from Supercomputing 2005 went well based on our un-scientific polls on the show floor.

November 16, 2005 1 min read

802.1x Authentication for Wired Networks – A vulnerability note

Thanks to Steve Riley for pointing out some of the vulnerabilities about my post with using 802.

November 7, 2005 1 min read

New 802.1x and IPSec Whitepaper for Wired Networks

I have talked to many IT Pros over the years about using IEEE 802.

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October 28, 2005 1 min read

SMB2 Protocol – what is a Symbolic Link?

I had a comment from my last post about the new SMB2 protocol that I wanted to follow up on…There was mention of support for ‘Symbolic Links’ in the post and Mr.

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October 24, 2005 1 min read

Windows Server R2 DFS Replication Chat

Want to get a better understanding of the new DFS Namespace and Replication in the upcoming release of R2? Join the DFS chat on Oct 27 at 10AM PST.