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Announcements March 11, 2010 2 min read

Now Customers Can Actually Locate Your Resources with URL Rewriter 2.0 RTW

Today, Microsoft announced the final release of IIS URL Rewriter 2.

Updates April 16, 2010 1 min read

Forget the Pre-Historic: Business Critical Means Windows

IDC recently released a analysis of the x86 server market “Business-Critical Workloads: Supporting Business-Critical: Computing with an Integrated Server Platform.

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Announcements May 5, 2010 1 min read

Available now: Active Directory Federation Services 2.0

Hi everyone. Good news: Active Directory Federation Services 2.

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Updates February 22, 2011 1 min read

Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 – Now Available!

As originally communicated in Michael Kleef’s blog post, today Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 is available for download.

Updates November 20, 2012 1 min read

Server Posterpedia v2 available in the Windows Store!

In today’s post, Martin McClean and Brian Lich talk about their Windows Store app, Server Posterpedia.

Updates October 3, 2013 1 min read

EMC Support for the SMB 3.0 Protocol – the Future of Storage Protocols

One of the key issues this blog has covered recently is the transformation of storage.

Announcements June 12, 2018 2 min read

Windows Server 2008 SP2 servicing changes

We are moving to a rollup model for Windows Server 2008 SP2.

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Updates July 10, 2018 1 min read

It’s sunset time for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2

The 2008 family of server products have had a tremendous run.

Updates July 13, 2018 1 min read

Get answers to “Now what?” for Windows Server 2008 end of support

Our 2008 server products were great for their time, but newer versions of Windows Server offer tremendous improvements in performance and efficiency compared to the Windows Server of 10 years ago.

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Updates October 16, 2018 1 min read

Use Azure Site Recovery to migrate Windows Server 2008 before End of Support

Don’t let the name fool you. Azure Site Recovery (ASR) can be used as an Azure migration tool for 30 days at no charge.

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Updates July 8, 2019 1 min read

Six months left to transform your Windows Server 2008 apps and infrastructure

This month, SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 reached their End of Support.

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Updates December 17, 2019 4 min read

Protect workloads still running on Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2

Over the last couple of years, we have shared why it is business critical to migrate and upgrade apps and services running on Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2.

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