Microsoft is announcing today the formation of a new organization within the Server & Tools Business that combines the Windows Server & Solutions group and the Windows Azure group, into a single organization called the Server & Cloud Division (SCD).
This change reflects the alignment of our resources with our strategy, and represents a natural evolution for Microsoft as the Windows Azure business moves from an advanced development project to a mainstream business, as we announced last month at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC).
SCD will deliver solutions that help our customers realize even greater benefits from Microsoft’s investments in on-premises and cloud technologies. And the new division will help strengthen an already solid and extensive partner ecosystem.
As the only company in the industry that has the leading server platform complemented by a massive investment in online services, we have the unique ability to offer our customers a choice to tap into one or both approaches simultaneously through one consistent platform.
Together, Windows Server, Windows Azure, SQL Server, SQL Azure, Visual Studio and System Center help customers extend existing investments to include a future that will combine both on-premises and cloud solutions, and SCD is now a key player in that effort.
The details of this organizational change are noted below:
1. The Windows Azure development team, will move from under Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie to the Server & Tools Business, led by Bob Muglia, President, Server and Tools Division. Senior Vice President Amitabh Srivastava will lead the newly formed SCD, reporting to Bob.
2. The Windows Server and Solutions group, led by Corporate Vice President Bill Laing, will join the Windows Azure team to form the Server & Cloud Division. Bill will report to Amitabh and will continue his role as a key member of the STB leadership team. Bill will partner with Amitabh to continue the bilateral sharing of technology between Windows Server and Windows Azure, which has been a key design goal of Microsoft’s software + services strategy.
3. The Windows Azure business and marketing team, will continue to be led by Doug Hauger. Doug will join the Server and Tools Marketing Group, led by Corporate Vice President Robert Wahbe, reporting to Corporate Vice President Bob Kelly, who is also responsible for Windows Server, System Center, and Forefront.
The Windows Server team is very excited to be part of SCD and to continue our work together with the Windows Azure team to deliver the best of both software + services.
Posted by WindowsServer, filed under Uncategorized. Date: December 8, 2009, 3:00 pm | No Comments »
This whitepaper examines new features and settings that you can modify to provide a more "locked down" security configuration for Internet Explorer 8. This document discusses both the Windows Vista and Windows XP versions of Internet Explorer. Administrators and system owners can use the guidance in this paper to tighten security settings in the browser to meet their specific needs. The document is structured to provide a description and review of the settings and features the paper discusses. Microsoft recommendations for enhancing the default security settings in some common deployment scenarios are also provided.
Posted by TechNet Announcements for Week of 12/7/2009, filed under Uncategorized. Date: December 7, 2009, 9:11 pm | No Comments »
Silverlight delivers the next generation of Microsoft .NET–based media experiences and rich interactive applications for internet browsers. More and more applications and sites are using Silverlight with penetration jumping from 33% to 45% since July 2009. Works with what you have by taking existing sites to next level providing simple integration with existing Web technologies and assets, such as ASP.NET and SharePoint services. Download the Silverlight Deployment Guide v2 to learn more about Silverlight deployment options.
Posted by TechNet Announcements for Week of 12/7/2009, filed under Uncategorized. Date: December 7, 2009, 9:11 pm | No Comments »
Discuss the business intelligence tools available in SharePoint Server 2010.
Posted by TechNet Announcements for Week of 12/7/2009, filed under Uncategorized. Date: December 7, 2009, 9:11 pm | No Comments »
IE is the only browser which gives you the complete control to lockdown and fine tune features via group policy. With over 1,400 group policy settings, you can easily control how you'd like to run Internet Explorer in your organization.
Posted by TechNet Announcements for Week of 11/30/2009, filed under Uncategorized. Date: December 3, 2009, 7:28 pm | No Comments »
In this tough economic climate, threats to sensitive data and the corporate infrastructure are increasing on an enormous scale; IT professionals have been charged with the complex challenge of maintaining a secure environment as cost efficiently as possible. Explore the Microsoft Forefront security suite of products through a series of free webcasts, podcasts, and virtual labs and arm yourself with the knowledge and tools to simplify your budget and security decisions.
Posted by TechNet Announcements for Week of 11/30/2009, filed under Uncategorized. Date: December 3, 2009, 7:28 pm | No Comments »
Join our IT Professional Evangelists Dan Stolts, Blain Barton, Yung Chou and John Baker, as they bring you the highlights of Microsoft’s great virtualization solutions. They will go from the desktop to the enterprise, starting with VHD native boot - a new feature for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Next, they will move into Windows XP mode, Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, and finish with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM).
Posted by TechNet Announcements for Week of 11/30/2009, filed under Uncategorized. Date: December 3, 2009, 7:27 pm | No Comments »
Why you should care about ISO files and how to mount them in Windows 7 using freely available tools.
Posted by WindowsNetworking.com, filed under Uncategorized. Date: December 3, 2009, 1:00 am | No Comments »
The Windows Server Migration team's been cooking...no, not cranberry sauce and stuffing, but a new Windows Server Migration Utilities download package that lets you use the Windows Server Migration Tools to migrate Hyper-V and Routing and Remote Access Services (RRAS). Brand-spankin'-new beta migration guides are available for both Hyper-V and RRAS, with detailed, step-by-step guidance about how to use the Windows Server Migration Tools (after the Utilities package is installed, of course) to migrate to servers that are running Windows Server 2008 R2.
Still not feeling the love? We've got new beta migration guides for Health Registration Authority (HRA), Network Policy Server (NPS), and Windows Server Update Services 3.0 SP2 (WSUS). HRA, NPS, and WSUS don't even require the Windows Server Migration Tools; you can migrate from prep to production, just by following the guides.
We can't say it enough: your feedback rocks. The Windows Server Migration team is collecting feedback about the beta guides and the Utilities download package through the end of 2009. You can use the following methods to speak your mind about Migration Guides and the Windows Server 2008 R2 Migration Utilities Beta package. Share your migration experiences; they're critical to the quality of the Migration Guides, Windows Server 2008 R2 Migration Utilities, and the whole Migration solution for WS08 R2!
- Take the Windows Server 2008 R2 Migration Utilities Beta Survey. Nothing goes better with a cup of coffee.
- Got an earful about how to improve Migration guides or utilities? Reply to the Windows Server 2008 R2 Migration Utilities release announcement on the Windows Server Migration forum.
- Found a bug in our migration guides? Send e-mail to smcpe at Microsoft.com. Include a description of your migration scenario (especially the operating systems that are running on your source and destination servers), and any workarounds that you used to resolve the problem. Unless the problem defied workarounds, of course; in that case, you can just send us a hard luck story and/or flame mail, we still want to hear from you.
- Found a bug in the tools? Send e-mail to smcpe at Microsoft.com. Include a description of your migration scenario (especially the operating systems that are running on your source and destination servers), the steps to reproduce the bug, and the following logs:
- %windir%\Logs\SmigDeploy.log
- %windir%\Logs\ServerMigration.log
- On Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2: %localappdata%\SvrMig\Log
- On Windows Server 2003: %userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\SvrMig\Log
Visit the Windows Server Migration Portal on TechCenter to see the complete collection of Windows Server 2008 R2 Migration Guides, and a truckload of other migration resources, too.
-- Cheers from the Windows Server Migration team!
Posted by WindowsServer, filed under Uncategorized. Date: December 2, 2009, 7:42 pm | No Comments »
This series of articles on deploying Windows 7 continues describing how to manually migrate a computer from Windows XP to Windows 7 while preserving the user settings and data on the computer.
Posted by WindowsNetworking.com, filed under Uncategorized. Date: December 1, 2009, 12:00 am | No Comments »
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