Windows Server virtualization, code-named "Viridian," is having some features stripped in order to meet its public beta shipping date in the second half of 2007 -- a ship date that recently slipped itself.
Microsoft may have slipped up Thursday afternoon and inadvertently posted the official name of its next server operating system, currently code-named "Longhorn."
Microsoft kicked off its first-ever Business Intelligence (BI) Conference in Seattle with a keynote speech by Business Division President Jeff Raikes, who spoke in general terms about Microsoft’s efforts to integrate existing products into businesses processes, without offering much in the way of specifics.
Documenting your servers can be a PITA. Make a script do it and it becomes less painful.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 05/09/2007
Microsoft published seven new fixes for "critical" vulnerabilities in its Windows, Office, Exchange, Internet Explorer and BizTalk Server products.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/08/2007
Windows Vista's mail client is obsolete after just a few months of life as a commercial product.
If your hand is up, consider yourself open to attack.
Here's one small change among 800 in the Windows OS that you might want back.
- By Greg Shields
- 05/07/2007
Dell has become the first hardware maker to join Microsoft and Novell in their effort to enhance interoperability between the Windows and Linux platforms.
Branch offices present special challenges for IT, mostly because of often slow or unreliable WAN connections, and a lack of onsite IT personnel to secure the local network and computers. Microsoft Corp. and Cupertino, Calif.-based Packeteer believe they have found a solution with iShaper, which is being promoted as a "branch office in a box."
Use pigs to find truffles and use Netcap to do quick and dirty packet captures.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 05/02/2007
Formally announces availability of security suite for Microsoft clients
- By Keith Ward and Lee Pender
- 05/02/2007
Some files and folders are just too stubborn to delete easily. Try these tips.
- By Zubair Alexander
- 05/01/2007
Use these scripts to list the VHD or VMDK files on any system
Vista kind of hides this cool little utility that can be used for quickly peeking over a firewall or other security tricks.
- By Greg Shields
- 04/30/2007
New beta called 'quantum leap' by VMM product managers.
A better way to find and delete files quickly and almost painlessly.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 04/25/2007
The next generation Windows Server took the biggest step yet on its long and winding road toward commercial availability when Microsoft announced the release of "Longhorn" Beta 3 Wednesday night.
Keep abreast of what's happening using a function that logs and optionally displays script actions.
Don't look now, but Microsoft Corp. is prepping still another mega-patch, this time for the Windows DNS vulnerability it first disclosed last week.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/20/2007