A long-awaited interim update to the current version of Microsoft's Windows Server OS, called Windows Server 2003 R2, is finally ready.
The update, available to customers in 60 days, should be 100 percent compatible with apps running on the current release of Windows Server 2003, said Bob Muglia, senior vice president for servers and tools at Microsoft.
Virtualization is a key focus of the update, which is designed to work closely with Virtual Server 2005, MOM (Microsoft Operations Manager) and SMS (Systems Management Server) as part of Microsoft's Dynamic Systems initiative, Muglia said.
The new Windows Server release also includes a key identity management technology, ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services), which introduces the idea of federated network identity into the OS.
