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Microsoft has released the preview software for Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2014 at its TechEd Europe 2013 conference in Madrid. The preview software offerings are designed to blur the boundaries between customers’ own datacentres and the Windows Azure public cloud for a hybrid IT infrastructure. “These products are going to have a massive impact on companies around the world – and IT pros are going to see the traditional boundaries between datacentres vanish and a true hybrid cloud emerge,” wrote Brad Anderson, corporate vice-president of Windows Server & System Center at Microsoft, on the company blog.The update to the server, management and SQL products forms part of Microsoft’s “cloud-first design principles” and its Cloud OS strategy, according to Anderson.

Microsoft has released an update for Application compatibility in Windows 7.The Windows application compatibility update is a software update that improves the compatibility experience in Windows 7. The problems that are resolved by application compatibility updates When you try to install and run certain games or applications in Windows 8 ,you may experience one or more of the following symptoms: The game, the application, or the driver is installed incorrectly. The game, the application, or the driver causes system instability. The primary functions of the game, of the application, or of the firmware do not work correctly.

With the release of Windows server 2012, Microsoft does the game again. In windows server 2012 Microsoft introduced some changes in all the roles like file sharing, identity, storage, virtual desktop infrastructure, and certainly server virtualization and cloud. Let’s walk through the security features that Microsoft brought into amazing windows server 2012.     1. UEFI and Secure Boot:               Microsoft has replaced the traditional ROM-BIOS booting with UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) ver. 2.3.1 which prevents boot code update without signatures and digital certificates. We can say that boot process is completely secure. It also reduces risk of entering malicious code such as boot viruses and root kits.  

Server 2012 comes with some great new features. It also refines previous versions of Server to bring it up to parity, in features and stability, with competing offerings. In short Windows Server 2012 kicks ass. Here are the top 10 reasons why. 1. SMB 3.0 SMB 3.0 is the crown jewel of Server 2012. It is far removed from its laughingstock predecessor CIFS . It supports multiple simultaneous network interfaces – including the ability to hot-plug new interfaces on the fly to increase bandwidth for large or complex transfers – and supports MPIO, thin provisioning of volumes and reduplication (assuming the underlying storage is NTFS). SMB 3.0 also supports SMB Direct and remote direct memory access, the ability for appropriately kitted systems to move SMB data directly from one system's memory to the other, bypassing the SMB stack. This has enabled Microsoft to hit 16GBps transfer rates for SMB 3.0, a weighty gauntlet for any potential challenger to rise.

During April 2013 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released an update for Windows 7 (KB2823324) which was a security update for the Windows 7 file system kernel-mode driver. Unfortunately for some users, this update has resulted in an infinite reboot loop. Microsoft had to issue another fix, KB2839011, to address the reboot bug. Now, Microsoft is making available a new security update, KB2840149, which addresses the security issue that was supposed to have been fixed by the botched update, KB2823324. "As we previously discussed, we stopped distributing this update when we learned some customers were having issues. The new update, KB2840149, still addresses the Moderate security issue described in MS13-036, and should not cause these issues," Microsoft stated in an official blog post. Apparently, the original update created a conflict with certain third-party software, resulting in system errors. Microsoft had to immediately pull the update to prevent any more issues from coming u

Top Server Technologies Technology World is facing a   computing trend is cloud computing. Virtualization and its big brother, cloud computing, will change our technology-centered lives forever. These technologies will enable us computing with less money, less hardware, less data loss and less hassle. During this decade, everything you do in the way of technology will move to the data center, whether it's an on-premises data center or a remote cloud architecture data center thousands of miles away.