Windows Server 'R2' Detailed to Partners
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Although a final release of the next Windows Server, code-named "R2," won't debut until late 2005, Microsoft partners are being briefed on what's to come. R2 is slated to be a fairly minor interim release between Windows Server 2003 SP1 and Longhorn Server, which is not expected until 2007. But the upgrade will include some new functionality along with the base service pack and security updates.
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Blog: I recently had the opportunity to meet with two Microsoft officials to discuss Widows Home Server.  According to Microsoft officials, this new solution could solve all of your backup problems and help you immediately restore your entire system to an earli
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ON THE SCENE - At a morning session introducing many to the window-less Server Core installation option in the forthcoming Windows Server 2008, Microsoft product manager Andrew Mason made it official:  Windows Virtualization Services (code-named "Viridian") will become the ninth role available for the trim server option, joining IIS7.
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(InfoWorld) - MicrosoftÂ has signed up the first licensee for the workgroup server protocols the European Commission ordered it to open up to competitors in aÂ 2004 antitrust ruling, it said Thursday. The announcement comes a week after the Commission sent Microsoft a "statement of objections," saying it was not satisfied that the information Microsoft planned to provide under its Work Group Server Protocol Program (WSPP) warranted the prices the company planned to charge. The licensee, Quest Software of Aliso Viejo, California, plans to use Microsoft's User and Group Administration protocol set in products based on Microsoft's Active Directory, extending the way those products link with Unix, Linux, and Java authentication systems, the companies said Thursday. Quest develops software for Active Directory administration and data recovery, in addition to tools for application, database and server administration. The companies signed their licensing deal on March 1, the day the Commission published its objections, said Tom Brookes, a spokesman for Microsoft. Quest will pay the full list price to which the Commission objected, 5.25 percent of net revenue on the products in which the protocols are being integrated, Brookes said. The Commission ordered Microsoft to create the WSPP as one of the remedies in a March 2004 antitrust ruling, in which it found Microsoft had abused its dominant position in the desktop operating system market to gain advantages in the markets for media players and workgroup server software. It ordered Microsoft to pay a â¬497 million (then around $600 million) fine, release a version of Windows without an integrated media player, and release details of the protocols used for communication between computers running the desktop and workgroup server versions of Windows, to enable competitors to build interoperable software. Microsoft is stillÂ appealing the ruling, but paid the fine and released the software and protocol information anyway. Since the ruling, the Commission has complained that Microsoft is not releasing the right kind of information fast enough, while Microsoft has protested that the Commission has not made its demands clear. In July 2006, the CommissionÂ fined Microsoft a further â¬280.5 millionÂ for the delays,Â a ruling Microsoft appealedÂ in October. Last week, the Commission signalled that the protocol information Microsoft had provided was not innovative enough to justify its price. Microsoft created a similar licensing program in the U.S., in response to an antitrust ruling there. That program has so far attracted 27 licensees. Â
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At least two independent, private network administrators have reported on their blogs since yesterday that their Windows Server Update Service has downloaded and deployed to their network clients the most recent update to Microsoft's Windows Desktop Search engine, even though those services are set up not to deploy updated software automatically.
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Safend, an international provider of endpoint i
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A leading provider of secure content management solutions, Finjan Software, has reported 10 serious security vulnerabilities in Windows XP Service Pace 2. According to the company, the attacker can remotely take control over a machine running Windows XP
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SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp. has started recruiting testers for the first beta of Windows Server 2003 R2, an update to Windows Server that the vendor plans to ship in October next year.
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Internet security monitoring groups are warning MicrosoftÂ Windows users about new Internet attacks aimed at Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 machines running WINS (Windows Internet Naming Service).
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Microsoft has made a minority investment in Linux management firm Vintela, sources say. Microsoft Watch, which broke the story, reports that the two companies are working together Microsoft's Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) to add interoperability with Unix platforms. ADFS, code-named "TrustBridge," will arrive with Windows Server R2 in late 2005. Vintela is also developing a plug-in to Microsoft Operations Manager 2005, which the company unveiled today at IT Forum 2004 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Microsoft said Sunday it&#39;s looking into reports of a security screw-up in Windows Internet Name Service (WINS), a component of its most popular server software, including Windows NT 4.0 Server, Windows 2000 Server, and Windows Server 2003.
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After two years of fits and starts, Microsoft will finally deliver its Virtual Server 2005 product, which company officials contend will be an important contributor to its Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI), the company&#39;s plan for managing distributed
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The latest release of Windows Small Business Server is at risk from a bug in Windows' networking software, Microsoft says.
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Windows XP Service Pack 2 gets a 'hotfix' for VPNs, part of the \
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Servers running an early version of company's Windows Server 2008 operating system are powering Microsoft.com.
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DECEMBER 06, 2004  - Microsoft Corp. will offer custom support options on a flat-fee basis to users of Windows NT 4.0 Server and Exchange Server 5.5 when the standard support phases for those products end.
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Citrix Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. this week announced an extension to their long-standing partnership that will allow Citrix to support the next version of the Windows Server -- code-named Longhorn -- in its popular access products.