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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Service Pack 1, and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager
White Papers Many mid-sized and larger businesses may want to create virtual machines to consolidate or isolate workloads within their IT infrastructure, but they may be concerned about deploying and managing these virtual machines and about backing up their...
[April 3, 2008, 1:02]
Virtual server 2007 delayed
News Service Pack 1 for Virtual Server 2005 R2 will include support for two chip features, Intel's Virtualization Technology and AMD's Pacifica, that ease the task. It's designed to work with the upcoming Longhorn Server, a server-oriented version of...
[March 29, 2006, 10:05]
Microsoft: Windows 7 for servers to be minor release
News On its server roadmap page, Microsoft describes its minor, or update, releases thus: "Update releases integrate the previous major release with the latest service pack, selected feature packs, and new functionality.
[August 19, 2008, 8:47]
Microsoft delays release of Update tool
News Also, Microsoft developers are busy with a new Automatic Updates agent that will be incorporated into Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), a long-awaited revamp of Windows XP. In addition to Longhorn and SP2, Microsoft is readying a service pack...
[July 13, 2004, 16:35]
64-bit Windows nearly with us
News The company said it has reached the "release candidate" stage for Service Pack 1 of Windows Server 2003. The Windows Server update adds a number of the security enhancements Microsoft added to Windows XP with Service Pack 2.
[December 8, 2004, 8:10]
Using Virtualization to Achieve Affordable Disaster Recovery: Physical-to-Virtual Disaster Recovery From Microsoft, PlateSpin, and Dell
White Papers This whitepaper details PlateSpin's Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) Recovery solution, implemented using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) in conjunction with Dell PowerEdge Servers.
[April 3, 2008, 1:02]
TechNet Webcast: Deploying Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (Level 300)
White Papers In this webcast, you will learn how you can create a highly reliable and available storage environment and migrate to it using the Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 feature pack. This webcast explains the key features of Windows Storage...
[February 7, 2006, 23:00]
Deployment Cookbook: Backup and Recovery
White Papers Mid-sized organizations can use Acronis True Image 9.1 Enterprise Server and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) together to provide an easy-to-use, cost-effective backup and recovery solution.
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
Solution Provider Uses Virtualization to Cut Costs, Add Flexibility, Boost New Business
White Papers The company deployed Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Service Pack 1, which it can use to run multiple operating systems on one physical server. Florida-based AcXess is a Microsoft partner whose resilient on-demand application solutions provide a...
[March 1, 2008, 0:02]
IT Services Firm Helps Customers Lower Costs, Simplify Processes With Virtualization
White Papers To help these companies add server resources in a cost-effective way, YSIDE implemented Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Service Pack 1, which runs multiple operating systems on a single physical server computer.
[March 1, 2008, 0:02]
Microsoft and Novell flesh out technical deal
News In the area of virtualisation, Novell and Microsoft said on Monday that Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 will be able to run on Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 when a service pack is released in the second quarter of this year.
[February 13, 2007, 8:13]
Microsoft holds fire on virtualisation beta debut
News And Service Pack 1 for the current Virtual Server 2005 R2 product won't appear until later this quarter; it had been scheduled for the end of March. Microsoft has delayed an update to its current virtualisation software and the beta debut of its...
[April 13, 2007, 10:37]
Virtual Server upgrade plans expanded
News The software maker, which had earlier announced plans to issue a service pack for Virtual Server 2005, said it will instead release a product in the fourth quarter of this year known as Virtual Server 2005 R2.
[August 25, 2005, 9:35]
Novell to ship Linux-monitoring tool for Microsoft
News The interoperability lab's latest product is the Suse Linux Enterprise Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, which will allow Microsoft System Center Operations Manager R2 users to monitor both Linux and Windows systems...
[June 12, 2009, 15:33]
Microsoft serves up Longhorn plans
News Muglia also said Microsoft has already slated both a service pack and an update for Longhorn. We are thinking about an update release to Longhorn that will come in the 2009 time frame; 2008 will probably be the service pack; 2009 will be the update...
[May 13, 2004, 8:25]
Microsoft turns spotlight on Windows 7 Server
News Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 is now in technical beta, he said. Microsoft has offered more details about Windows 7 Server, after two weeks of focus on its desktop counterpart. Speaking on Thursday at the Windows Hardware Engineering...
[November 7, 2008, 10:29]
WinFS slips out of Windows Server schedule
News Service Pack 1 of the OS, which reached the "release candidate" stage earlier this week, should ship by March, Muglia said. Microsoft's long-awaited new Windows file system is still a work in progress.
[December 13, 2004, 8:30]
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 review
Reviews Unfortunately, to get full SCSI support for Linux you need the additions pack and a Virtual Server SP1 update, which was still in beta at the time of testing. Microsoft’s Virtual Server could, in theory, be installed onto almost any x86 Intel- or...
[June 7, 2006, 13:00]
Windows 7 Release Candidate: a first look review
Reviews He also expects that the RC will be used to test deployment and applications, so that businesses can jump straight to Windows 7, without the traditional wait for the first service pack. Windows 7 has entered the home straight, with the appearance...
[May 5, 2009, 13:03]
Microsoft plays catch-up on virtualisation
News Microsoft had originally planned to announce Virtual Server (VS) 2005, Release 2 (R2), Service Pack 1 (SP1) sometime in the first quarter of this year but instead settled for the second. After some delay, Microsoft launched the updated version of...
[June 12, 2007, 15:48]
