Microsoft has made a host of improvements to its core virtualization stack in the latest version of its flagship server. The next version of Windows Server is finally here! It's been a long time ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

The consumer preview of Windows 8 wasn't the only operating system code Microsoft dropped today. The company also released the Windows Server "8" beta, a work-in-progress version of the next ...

Virtual Server 2005 R2, or "Release 2" in Microsoft's nomenclature, sports improved performance, support for failover in case of hardware failure, clustering of virtual machines on a single host or ...

Microsoft’s Virtual Server 2005 is probably best viewed as a direct competitor to VMware’s well-entrenched GSX Server , but the degree to which Virtual Server integrates with other Microsoft server ...

Both Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 sport the new Metro-style GUI, but we found that it’s not as radical a change as has been reported. Indeed the bemoaned missing “Start” button and menus already ...

Cisco is collaborating with Microsoft to bring its virtual switch to Hyper-V next year when Windows Server 8 is released. While Cisco’s Nexus 1000V distributed virtual switch already supports VMware ...

Not too long ago AppZero chief executive Greg O'Connor explained to me that Microsoft and AppZero were working together to help companies still running windows applications on Windows Server 2003 to ...

The good folks at Symantec sent me some information about their recently-released Windows Server 2012 Migration/Virtualization Survey. After reading through the study findings, I am impressed by how ...

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Microsoft’s licensing policies make my job easier. I can count on writing a few newsletters each year (and one or two Wired Windows columns) on the annual changes to the various licensing schemes ...

Recently a client asked me to write a whitepaper about IP address management. At first the assignment seemed completely routine. But as I began looking at the details I realized that I was going to ...