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Microsoft’s norwegian audience marketing manager Stig Nerland made a blog post today confirming the release date for Windows Home Server.

Also the Windows Home Server web site has been updated with a new look and feel, and over the next few weeks additional content, links and other great stuff will be added to the site.

The home page, now has pages for:

• Home Users
• Enthusiasts
• Partners
• Developers
• Press

News Source: blogs.technet.com

This document describes new features and technologies, which were not available in Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 (SP1), that will help to increase the security of computers running Windows Server 2008, increase productivity, and reduce administrative overhead.

These topics apply to the next release of Windows Server 2008, based on the functionality expected to be included in the Beta releases in 2007. They do not describe all of the changes that are included in Windows Server 2008. Instead, they highlight changes that will potentially have the greatest impact on your use of Windows Server 2008 and provide references to additional information

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These step-by-step guides help IT Professionals learn about and evaluate Windows Server 2008.

These documents are downloadable versions of guides found in the Windows Server 2008 Technical Library.

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The Microsoft Update team has posted a statement addressing the current community discussion on Windows Update’s self-updating behavior. The upshot is that a longstanding procedure in Windows Update requires it to self-update before it is able to recognize Read More……(read more)

The Microsoft Update team has posted a statement addressing the current community discussion on Windows Update’s self-updating behavior.  The upshot is that a longstanding procedure in Windows Update requires it to self-update before it is able to recognize that new updates are available (note: WU does not conduct a self-update event each and every time it checks for updates).  This self-updating is done regardless of whether the user has enabled automatic checking, download and/or installation of updates.  It does so in an effort to avoid WU misleading the user to think s/he is up-to-date simply because s/he was not receiving notification that updates are available.  Put another way, WU cannot alert the user that there are security updates available if it is not in the necessary updated state that will allow it to recognize those updates (see “chicken and egg“ dilemma).

However, we do recognize that we should have been clearer in our explanation of this process earlier in the game; the MU team’s blog post is an effort to rectify that oversight.

In short, this is a poorly understood process, so I invite you to take a look at the details in the MU

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