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Microsoft IT's Benefits of a Server Core Installation of Windows Server 2008: Server Core is a minimal installation option for the Windows Server 2008 operating system that does not provide a fully integrated Graphical User Interface GUI or other components and applications that are not required for supported server roles and features. A Server Core installation helps reduce the attack surface and...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Information Technology, Benefit, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft IT, Server Core, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware; White papers 2008-03-01
Microsoft IT Benefits From a Server Core Installation of Windows Server 2008: Server Core is a minimal installation option for the Windows Server 2008 operating system that does not provide a fully integrated Graphical User Interface GUI or other components and applications that are not required for supported server roles and features. A Server Core installation helps reduce the attack surface and...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Benefit, Microsoft Corp., Server Core, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware; Case studies 2008-03-01
Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 are soup: Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 are soupWhy March?n/tServer 2008In theory, it has a lot to offer. In practice... what's Microsoft's history of features vs reliability of said features?And will Microsoft play around with their licensing agreements? "Bait'n'switch" I believe the term is called...The clock is...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Servers, SP1 RC, Server Core, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, server, Microsoft Windows Server; Discussion threads 2008-02-04
Microsoft makes available a new Windows Server 2008 test build: Microsoft makes available a new Windows Server 2008 test buildinteresting...It will be interesting to see what great things will be in 2008 over Win2003. We still have about half of our Windows server population on Win2000 and four servers still on NT 4.0 here. Yikes !!!Non-supported ASP.net in IIS 7...; Tags: Servers, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Server Core, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, server; Discussion threads 2007-06-27
Microsoft makes available a new Windows Server 2008 test build: On June 26, Microsoft pushed out a new Community Technology Preview CTP test build of Windows Server 2008.The build is not for any and all testers; it is for a smaller select set of technical beta participants, according to a post on the Windows Server team blog. The new build...; Tags: Windows Server Longhorn, Windows server; Blog posts 2007-06-27

Windows Server 2008 Core gets a new role: Windows Server 2008 Core gets a new roleThis will be great for larger more specialized companiesnot so great for the small guy.. we tend to pile as much crap on one server as possible.Good to know we have options though.I wish i knew how i missed this event.. i am...; Tags: Servers, .NET, Operating systems, Virtualization, Middleware, Windows Server 2008 Core, Microsoft Windows Server, server, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Server Core, Microsoft ASP.NET, Linux; Discussion threads 2007-06-04
Windows Server 2008 Core gets a new role: Windows Server 2008, when it ships later this year, will include an installation option called "Server Core" that allows admins to set up a minimal environment to run a handful of roles.At TechEd 2007 here in Orlando, Microsoft announced that it will be adding yet another admin-selectable role option to...; Tags: Windows Server Longhorn, Windows server, TechEd 2007; Blog posts 2007-06-04
TechNet Webcast: Running a Minimal Windows Server 2008 Environment With Server Core (Level 200): The attendee of this webcast will look at the concept of Server Core, a subset of Windows Server 2008. Server Core has four specific roles for standard, enterprise, and data center environments. Server Core is designed to help reduce server vulnerability to attack and cut the costs of upgrading and...; Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Windows Server, Environment, Microsoft TechNet, Server Core, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Servers, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware; Webcasts

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Enterprise password management really isn't a good idea: Being at a university and working for a government department allows me to understand this concept well. There are shared resources here, there and everywhere, provided by different people and providers, all open to a "certain type" of person - employees or students. By having a single sign-on SSO point...; Tags: Software, Password Management, Mozilla Firefox, Password, Single Sign-on, RoboForm Enterprise, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-09-05
Live Event on Sept. 5th: Dell EqualLogic & VMware Infrastructure 3 Product Demonstration: Join Dell, and Dell Inc. Product Marketing Consultant William Urban, for a one-hour live presentation and product demonstration of a virtualized server and storage infrastructure based on VMware ESX Server 3.0 and the PS Series family of intelligent, iSCSI-based storage solutions. Register now for this event on Friday, September...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell EqualLogic, VMware Inc., Storage, Ip storage, Hardware; Webcasts 2008-09-05
Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with Qumranet: The caves of Qumran, located in in the highly disputed region of the West Bank that sits between Israel and Jordan and is populated by both Palestinians and Jews, is where the famous Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. The scrolls are said by many Judaic scholars...; Tags: Hypervisor, Red Hat Inc., Virtual Desktop, Qumranet, Open Source KVM, Virtualization, Hardware, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Handicapping the Fall Enterprise Software Race: SAP vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft: It's leapfrog time in enterprise software land, and the next frog to jump will be Oracle, which is hosting industry analysts next week in Redwood Shores and then hosting the entire world at its much-too-massive Open World Conference in San Francisco the following week. Oracle is...; Tags: Strategy, Small And Medium Enterprise, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Smb/Sme, Enterprise Software, Software, Joshua Greenbaum; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Microsoft finally earns a passing grade (barely) for WGA: Microsoft launched its Windows Genuine Advantage WGA anti-piracy program in early summer 2006. Its first year was, to put it charitably, a disaster. An epic fail. A big fat F on the year's report card. Things didn't get much better in 2007, either, as a server failure and other outages...; Tags: Report, Activation, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft Windows Vista, Product Key, Microsoft Corp., Forum, Product ID Number, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list: Microsoft today announced plans to ship four security bulletins next Tuesday (September 9, 2008) to cover worm holes affecting Windows users. All four bulletins in September's Patch Tuesday will be rated "critical," Microsoft's highest severity rating. A "critical" rating is used to rate a vulnerability that can...; Tags: Windows Media, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Are we "done" with rich Internet applications?: This week I've been putting together slides and preparing for my talk at Web 2.0 Expo New York City. I'm doing one titled "Making Sense of Rich Internet Applications" so it's more of a general talk covering everything from Adobe's stuff, to Microsoft Silverlight, to the mobile world, and now...; Tags: Rich Internet Application, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Office 2.0 Conference day one: David Allen discussed his 'getting things done' methodology with conference creator Ismael Ghalimi during the opening keynote session at the Office 2.0 conference at the St Regis Hotel, San Francisco. The core of the methodology is to free up the sophisticated processing unit that is your brain...; Tags: Google Inc., General Electric Co., Conference, Office 2.0, Matthew, Cloud Computing, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Analyst: Google Chrome 'SOA ready': There's been plenty of excellent commentary about Google's new Chrome browser provided by my colleagues here in the ZDNet community, so I'm not going to go into any nitty-gritty here. But to look at it from an enterprise perspective, Chrome may help lay the groundwork for a...; Tags: Google Inc., Client-server, SOA, Web Browser, Computing, Dave Linthicum, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Web Browsers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Ten key differences between Linux and Windows: Before debating the relative merits and shortcomings of Linux and Windows, it helps to understand the real distinctions between them. Before debating the relative merits and shortcomings of Linux and Windows, it helps to understand the real distinctions between them. Here are the key differences distilled into one list....; Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Jack Wallen. TechRepublic, Jack Wallen. ZDNet.co.uk, Windows, Microsoft, GNU Public License; News items 2008-09-04
Something in the air: Several random wind energy updates: It's been so still here in northern New Jersey for the past week that I can't imagine using the technology that I'm going to mention in this post. And yet the wind has been known to bend the trees in my yard, like kelp responding to a tidal surge. So,...; Tags: Alternative Energy, mW, Wind Energy, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Dell repair adventure, day 5, with updates: Since our last episode, our hero has been communicating with Bob Pearson, Dell's VP of Communities & Conversations, and Bill Bivin, Dell's Community Liaison, about getting my Dell Lattitude D620 back up and running. Both Bob and Bill give every impression of trying very hard to deal not only with...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-09-04