Lisa’s Windows Server Newsey Notes

Posted on April 24th, 2009 by Lisa Szpunar

Check out the latest Server 2008 family news complied by yours truly.

The Windows 7 Release Candidate is Just Around the Corner

Last week bloggers picked up on a page of the Microsoft’s Partner Program site that seemes to have gone live early. (Intentionally? Unintentionally? Who knows?)

The information is currently gone from that page but it originally listed May 5, 2009 as the date for Windows 7’s release candidate. Here is an article by Gregg Keizer of Computerworld with more information about what partner program site exactly said.

It doesn’t end there folks! Adrian Kingsley-Hughes of ZDnet is reporting that release candidate build 7100 has been leaked. Gasp! Check out his article. His journalistic integrity keeps him from dishing any really juicy information but it is still a good read.

Microsoft Funds an Open-Source Network File System for Windows


Version 4 of NFS for Windows is being developed at University of Michigan. This means that a Windows server will be able to be used for NFSv4 file storage. Here are some links for more information:

The Free Microsoft Hyper-V Server Gets More Features (Free) and will Continue to be Free!

Wow, if that title were in an e-mail it would never pass the spam filters. The Microsoft Virtualization Team Blog says, “Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 will continue to be free, and now will include live migration and host clustering capabilities.” This refers to the stand-alone version of Hyper-V that you don’t need Windows Server 2008 to get.

The Exchange 2010 Beta First Impressions

The beta for Exchange 2010 was released last week. I went looking for first reviews and found they are mostly positive. There has to be more to get excited about then thread style e-mail so check out these articles.

Green Computing TechNet Magazine Released for Earth Day

You knew that earth day was April 22nd right? With hordes of people wearing the color green in honor of earth day while at the same time failing to take any kind of real action – I felt a bit jaded this year. I was excited to see this Going Green issue of TechNet Magazine. Articles include:

  • Framework for Building a “Hyper-Green” Virtual Server System
  • Planning Your Power Management and Virtualization Strategies
  • Essential Tools for Planning Your Virtual Infrastructure
  • Build a Green Datacenter

Windows 8?

Microsoft is looking for a Software tester for the new file server being developed for Windows 8. So that confirms that at least parts of Windows 8 is already (or very soon will be) in development. Here is the job posting with all the details. 

Personally, I just don’t have the energy to care about Windows 8 yet. Do you?

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