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• Microsoft Partnership with RSA for Information Protection

  Hi all – I’m David Hastie, senior product manager in the Identity and Security Business Group here at Microsoft. I wanted to flag an announcement Microsoft made today in the area of information protection and data loss prevention. It involves Rights Management... Posted Dec 04 2008, 09:34 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows Server, Networking, Windows Storage, ISV, Data Protection Manager, R2 (Release Two), X64 Editions, Recover Lost Data, TechEd-ITForum, Branch Office, Failover Clustering, marketing waves, Lone Server, Windows Server 2008 Longhorn Webcast Virtualization Cluster High Availability Launch, Partner solutions, admin tools, MMS 2008, Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Windows Web Server 2008, Windows Serverver 2008 R2

• BranchCache Streamlines Remote Office Experience

  Hello everyone - my name is Vikram Ghosh, and I am Product Manager for Branch Office Solutions on the Windows Server Team. I am writing to you from, TechED EMEA here in Barcelona Spain, to describe one of my favorite new features in Windows Server 2008... Posted Nov 07 2008, 02:45 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Branch Office, Windows Serverver 2008 R2, BranchCache

• WebCast: Securing Branch Office User Accounts

  I came across this webcast recently and thought that it might be useful to you. The Webcast is basically a 12 minute demonstration of technologies such as Read only domain controller, BitLocker and fine Grained Password Policies in Windows Server 2008... Posted Oct 03 2008, 06:59 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Windows Server 2008, Branch Office

• Branch Office Optimisation using Windows Server 2008

  Here is a link to another excellent TechCenter on Technet and this one is all about Branch Office Solutions . There are a whole pile of improvements within Windows Server 2008 to assist around branch office. So many that there is a downloadable guide... Posted Sep 12 2008, 10:37 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows Server 2008, Branch Office

• SBS 2008: Released to Manufacturing!

  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... Posted Aug 21 2008, 01:59 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows Server, SBS, Networking, Misc, Virtualization, Longhorn, Windows Storage, ISV, VPN, R2 (Release Two), Server Manager, X64 Editions, Windows Server 2008, Branch Office, Hyper-V, marketing waves, Lone Server, Windows Server 2008 Longhorn Webcast Virtualization Cluster High Availability Launch, Partner solutions, admin tools, Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Windows Web Server 2008

• Windows Server 2008 – Branch Office Deployment

  In the final part of my interview with Alun Rodgers of Risual , we discuss the rollout out of Windows Server 2008 to branches of a well known fashion house.  You won’t get any tips on dress sense watching this, but you will understand why such ... Posted Jun 12 2008, 10:08 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Bitlocker, RODC, Windows Server 2008, Branch Office, Bit Locker, Read Only Domain Controller, bracnh office, Risual

• PowerShell script to automate deployment of Read-only Domain Controllers on Hyper-Visor

  Hi…my name is Nathan and I work in the Active Directory team at Microsoft. I’m posting here today to demonstrate an exciting new way to deploy Read-only Domain Controllers made possible because of improvements in Windows Server 2008. RODCs are a new feature... Posted Jun 06 2008, 04:35 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Powershell, RODC, Branch Office, Hyper-V

• New branch office appliance from Citrix

  We've blogged about the use of Windows Server within branch offices several times here and here . Many of them kicked off with the introduction of Windows Server 2003 R2 . Today Citrix announced Branch Repeater , which they say is a new line of branch... Posted May 20 2008, 08:59 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows Server, ISV, R2 (Release Two), Branch Office

• Windows Essential Server Solutions go public

  Good news. Today we opened up the Public Preview for Windows Essential Server Solutions - Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008 . Visit here to find out how to download and evaluate the Release Candidate 0 versions of both. EBS... Posted May 13 2008, 11:30 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows Server, SBS, Networking, Misc, Longhorn, Windows Storage, R2 (Release Two), X64 Editions, Windows Server 2008, Branch Office, marketing waves, Windows Server 2008 Longhorn Webcast Virtualization Cluster High Availability Launch, Partner solutions, admin tools

• How to Manage Remote Offices and Users #1

  The management of remote offices is something that I have been asked about a few times recently. So I thought that as I speak to various customers on this subject that I would summarise the advice in a series of posts here. I'll use the category 'Branch... Posted Mar 27 2008, 10:58 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Branch Office

• Essential Business Server at Convergence

  Lots happening in Orlando at Convergence 2008 - the Microsoft Dynamics users' conference. Steve Ballmer and vice president Kirill Tatarinov are speaking and the Dynamics team is making a number of announcements , including a partnership with EDS to extend... Posted Mar 12 2008, 11:33 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows Server, SBS, Networking, Misc, Virtualization, Longhorn, Windows Storage, VPN, Server Manager, Certification, X64 Editions, DNS, Windows Server 2008, Branch Office, Failover Clustering, high availability, Windows Server 2008 Longhorn Webcast Virtualization Cluster High Availability Launch, Partner solutions

• SBS myths dispelled...by "Tom"

  In the course of talking to many Microsoft partners and customers, the Windows Small Business Server team has learned that there are sometimes misperceptions about the product, in many cases based on experiences with the earlier versions of SBS. In hopes... Posted Mar 07 2008, 05:01 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows Server, SBS, Networking, Misc, Virtualization, Longhorn, Powershell, Windows Storage, ISV, VPN, IIS, Data Protection Manager, R2 (Release Two), Server Manager, Certification, X64 Editions, NPS, DNS, Recover Lost Data, Windows Server 2008, HPC, demo, DPM 2007, TechEd-ITForum, MySpace, Branch Office, logo, Failover Clustering, high availability, marketing waves, Lone Server, Windows Server 2008 Longhorn Webcast Virtualization Cluster High Availability Launch, Comic, Partner solutions, Author Profiles

• Check out the latest branch solution – powered by Windows Server 2008

  As we ramp up for the largest enterprise launch in Microsoft history , Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008, this is a great time to share some additional big news. In August of 2007, when Microsoft and Cisco made an announcement... Posted Feb 26 2008, 08:05 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows Server 2008, Branch Office, Partner solutions

• Windows Server 2008 blogposts from the Belgian IT Pro community

  Here is a list of what some of our Belgian IT Pro Bloggers are saying/blogging about Windows Server 2008. Kurt Roggen member of the VIP Technical Community: ( http://trycatch.be/blogs/roggenk/ ) Getting started with Group Policies Windows Server 2008... Posted Aug 02 2007, 07:14 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Active Directory, Webcasts, Community, Longhorn, Terminal Server, Group Policies, IIS, Server Core, NAP, Windows Server 2008, Branch Office, Tips & Tricks

• Spotlight Video On Demand -Andy Malone - Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Technical Overview

  This sessions explores the key areas addressed by Windows Server 2003 R2 including Branch Office, Storage Management and Active Directory Federation Services. Learn how Windows Server 2003 R2 extends Windows Server 2003, providing the most efficient way... Posted Jun 28 2007, 08:48 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Active Directory, Tech-Ed 2005, Branch Office, Storage Management, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2, Andy Malone, Microsoft Windows Server 2003

• Spotlight Video On Demand - John Craddock, Sally Storey - What's New in Windows Server 2003 R2

  So your customers or colleagues ask you "What's New in Windows Server 2003 R2?" How are you going to answer? Maybe you know that it's a series of technologies that install on top of Windows Server 2003 with SP1. But what are these technologies for? How... Posted Jun 28 2007, 05:09 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Identity Management, Windows Server 2003 R2, Sally Storey, John Craddock, Web Application Platform, Branch Office, Storage Management