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Updates April 18, 2011 1 min read

Windows PowerShell 2.0 language specification licensed

Windows PowerShell is an important cornerstone of Windows Server manageability.

Events June 7, 2011 1 min read

World IPv6 Day and IIS 7

Wednesday June 8 2011 is World IPv6 Day and there will be plenty of representation by IIS7 on the Windows Server side.

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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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 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.

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.