Posts Tagged ‘Windows Server 2008 R2’

Windows Server 2008 R2 is available for download from eOpen or MVLS sites now, it should become available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers tomorrow. (me downloading it below)

Thursday, August 13th, 2009 at 18:37 | 0 comments
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We should not forget that with a new version of Windows Server comes an updated Hyper-V (Hyper-V Server 2008 R2), this brings a wealth of new functionality and gives VMware’s equivalent a real kicking! “Market dominant VMware has something to fear.” -PC Magazine “Unlike VMware’s offering, [Hyper-V] Live Migration doesn’t cost extra and isn’t particularly […]

Thursday, July 30th, 2009 at 22:15 | 0 comments
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Well it is official both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have RTM’ed! Windows Team Blog, http://windowsteamblog.com Windows Server Blog, http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver Windows Virtualisation Blog, http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/ Steve Sinofsky’s Blog

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 at 21:45 | 0 comments
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Taken from MSDN Blogs: New MSDN Channel9 episodes illustrate FastCGI, PHP, and WebDAV IIS 7.5 extension capabilities. FastCGI is a language-independent, scalable, open extension to CGI that provides high performance. The FastCGI extension enables application frameworks such as PHP to achieve improved performance and stability on Internet Information Services.   See a demo here. The IIS WebDAV […]

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 at 06:22 | 0 comments
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When Windows Server 2008 core edition was made available IT Pros rejoiced, however it didn’t take long before developers started distributing tools like “CoreConfigurator”, a gui based editor that assisted with those initial setup changes. The Microsoft Virtualisation Team have taken notice and whilst a full blown gui is not necessary a text based menu would suffice – […]

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 at 15:23 | 0 comments
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Microsoft has now set July 13th for RTM “sign-off” Sign off is the process where all divisions sign that they agree on the final code, which means the actual RTM build will be created a few days earlier, which is targeted on July 10th. The general availability (GA) is set to October 22nd, this is […]

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 at 10:41 | 0 comments
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