Windows Server Division WebLogFocusing on Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V, Storage Server, High Performance Computing, Essential Business Server ,and Small Business ServerSBS 2008: Released to Manufacturing!- August 21, 2008 Excerpt from the post on the SBS blog by group program manager Dean Paron: On behalf of the SBS team, I am extremely pleased to announce that Windows Small Business Server 2008 software has been finalized! Today both SBS Standard and Premium are being released to manufacturing, which means we begin the process of finalizing international versions, creating media, building packaging, delivering the product to distribution channels and handing it off to our OEM partners, so it...http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2008/08/21/sbs-released-to-manufacturing.as... URLSCAN 3.0 RTW: DOWNLOAD TODAY- August 21, 2008 In June of this year, we released a beta version of UrlScan 3.0, which can help mitigate SQL injection attacks. Today, were happy to announce the final release of UrlScan 3.0 for Internet Information Services (IIS). UrlScan 3.0 is a security tool that restricts the types of HTTP requests that IIS will process. By blocking specific HTTP requests, the UrlScan 3.0 security tool helps to prevent potentially harmful requests from reaching applications on the server. UrlScan 3.0 is an update...http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2008/08/21/URLSCAN-3.0-RTW_3A00_-DOWNLOAD-T... But Wait Theres More! IIS 7.0 Extensions.- August 19, 2008 It might seem like a distant memory now, but when we launched Windows Server 2008 back in February, we made a big deal about the next-generation Web platform included with it: Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0. We spent a lot of time talking about how IIS 7.0 was redesigned in many fundamental ways. For example, we implemented a more modular architecture that allowed for a streamlined installation around which functionality could be added with a high degree of granularity. We...http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2008/08/18/but-wait-there-s-more-iis-7-0-ex... Windows Server '7' aka "Windows Server 2008 R2"- August 19, 2008 With Windows Server 2008 being released only 6 months ago, i'm sure its natural for people to wonder whats next As I have been combing through various blogs this weekend, I found it exciting to see so much interest and speculation over the next version of Windows Server. While Im bound by company NDA to not talk about features or functionality for the next version yet, I would like to take a moment to clear up a little confusion about the name and cadence of the next version of...http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2008/08/18/windows-server-7-aka-windows-ser... Pixar uses Windows HPC- August 12, 2008 All right, long story short, my 20th anniversary at Microsoft coincides with the 20th anniversary of Pixars RenderMan. Almost to the day. Same 20th . Same industry. And, of course, the same long history of success and innovation. But their celebration will be bigger. Not sure anyone really knows about my anniversary, I had to liberate the 20 Year Endurance Trophy from my managers office after 3 weeks, it was just sitting on his window sill collecting dust, but I...http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2008/08/12/pixar-uses-windows-hpc.aspx |