Microsoft Higher Education - Mid-Atlantic : SQL Server

Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, & Visual Studio 2008 Launch

Kevin Dean — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:27:00 GMT

I’m excited to announce that we have officially launched Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008. This launch represents a major milestone on the road to Dynamic IT,Microsoft’s initiative to help customers optimize their people,processes, and technology and in turn, position IT as a strategic asset for the business.

There will be several “regional” launch events over the next couple months. The following link provides more information about these upcoming events in your area:

http://www.microsoft.com/heroeshappenhere/events/default.mspx

SQL Server 2008 - Community Technology Preview

Kevin Dean — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:38:00 GMT

Some exciting news in the develoipment of SQL Server 2008!

Microsoft hit an important milestone for SQL Server 2008 with the announcement of the upcoming November Community Technology Preview (CTP). And this CTP is packed with new features, including compatibility with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 and new capabilities such as Resource Governor, Backup Compression and Transparent Data Encryption. This CTP also has new business intelligence enhancements including Design Alerts, block computation, and Enhanced Report Designer including new visualizations. In addition, this is the first CTP to help customers store and consume any type of data including new Filestream data types for unstructured data, and to provide support for spatial data for location intelligence. Register with the CTP program to take part in the preview.

Announcing SQL Server 2005 SP2

Kevin Dean — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:42:40 GMT

Today Microsoft is announcing the release of SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (SP2). New features include full compatibility with Windows Vista and Office 2007, enhanced BI capabilities and unlimited virtual instances of fully licensed SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition servers.

New features include compatibility with Windows Vista and Office 2007, enhanced BI functionality and improvements to Integration, Analysis and Reporting Services. Microsoft has worked closely with the community to develop quality updates for this service pack. For details, go to http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/b/5/2b5e5d37-9b17-423d-bc8f-b11ecd4195b4/WhatsNewSQL2005SP2.htm

Microsoft is expanding virtualization use rights to allow unlimited virtual instances on servers fully licensed for SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition.

When a customer licenses all of the processors in a server, they can run an unlimited numbers of SQL Server instances on an unlimited number of virtual operating system environments, at no additional licensing cost. This enables Enterprise Edition customers to purchase one license per processor no matter how many virtual instances are deployed. For the Server/CAL model, customers can run any number of virtual machines from a server with a paid license.

Kevin