Windows Server team Blog

Introduction At this point I’m hoping everyone has had the opportunity to read my two previous blogs on VMQ, VMQ Deep Dive 1 and VMQ Deep Dive 2 , and are more knowledgeable about the offload and when to use it. In this last post of this series, I want...(read more)

We've updated some of the queries to address the issues you identified and posted a new version of the files to download. Look for the 2013 KHIs to be added soon. An updated version of the Networking Guide is now available here: Lync Server Networking...(read more)

For years now, Microsoft has been building and operating some of the largest cloud applications in the world. The expertise culled from these experiences along with our established history of delivering market-leading enterprise operating systems, platforms, and applications has led us to develop a new approach for the modern era: the Microsoft Cloud OS.

Microsoft is getting into the solutions content business. What does this mean? Multiple teams across Microsoft are now focusing all or part of their time on developing and publishing lab-tested, multi-product, end-to-end solution content. For example...(read more)

We published a new KB article that describes an update that is available for Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Microsoft System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager. This update improves the reliability of offsite backup operations that you perform by using the Windows Azure Backup agent. We recommend that you install this update to upgrade to the latest version of the Windows Azure Backup agent.

In the previous blogs we looked at how cloud service providers can reduce their capital expenditure (CAPEX) and operation expenditure (OPEX) by deploying multi-tenant site-to-site (S2S) VPN & multi-tenant routing using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP...(read more)

On October 1, 2003, Microsoft announced it would move to a monthly security bulletin cadence. Today, marks 10 years since that first monthly security update. We looked at many ways to improve our security preparedness and patch timing was the number one customer request. Your feedback was clear and we delivered a predictable schedule.