Last week Microsoft released a new version of the Containers extension on Windows Admin Center. This release was focused on helping IT Admins getting their container hosts up and running without much effort. The process of deploying the containers feature ... continue reading

This blog was co-authored by Ben Schultz, Principal Program Manager and Weijuan Shi Davis, Senior Program Manager, Windows Server. Greetings! With the launch of Windows Server 2019 a few months ago, we kicked off a whole new wave of innovation ... continue reading

Some time ago, Pierre and I were delivering a Windows Server session to the Toronto ITPRO Usergroup when the following was asked: “Can you install SQL on a Nano Server?” SQL requires lots of features to be enabled in the ... continue reading

First published on TECHNET on Apr 30, 2015 If you are interested in Server Virtualization and Server Application development - today is a good day to be at Build 2015 (or following it online). Two big sessions to recommend are: ... continue reading

First published on TECHNET on Apr 30, 2015 If you are interested in Server Virtualization and Server Application development - today is a good day to be at Build 2015 (or following it online). Two big sessions to recommend are: ... continue reading

First published on TECHNET on May 12, 2015 Ignite 2015 was full of new information about Hyper-V. Check out some of the many talks about (or related to) Hyper-V. I'm sure I inevitably missed a few talks/interviews. If there are ... continue reading

First published on TECHNET on May 12, 2015 Ignite 2015 was full of new information about Hyper-V. Check out some of the many talks about (or related to) Hyper-V. I'm sure I inevitably missed a few talks/interviews. If there are ... continue reading

First published on TECHNET on Sep 01, 2016 Continuing on the topic of Shielded VMs from my last blog on creating shielded VMs, this blogpost will share my learnings from validating the scenario. This blogpost doesn't dive deep in terminologies ... continue reading

First published on MSDN on Jan 21, 2016 Hi Cluster Fans, It is nice to be back on the Cluster Team Blog! After founding this blog and working closely with the cluster team for almost eight years, I left Microsoft ... continue reading

We’re introducing several minor changes to the tagging format of Windows containers. These changes will begin taking take effect next Patch Tuesday, February 12, 2019. Build Number Tags We’re re-introducing a build tag across all Windows base images. This will ... continue reading