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On the heels of the completion of Vista and Office, Microsoft Tuesday opened its annual IT Forum conference by confirming the roadmap for the next beta of Longhorn Server, announcing the release of its long-awaited PowerShell command line tool, and unveiling a host of new and upcoming releases of platform and application management tools.
The announcements were made by Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the company’s server and tools business, during his keynote speech at the conference in Barcelona, Spain. He also emphasized the management infrastructure Microsoft has been building over the past three years under its Dynamic Systems Initiative banner.
Muglia said that Microsoft released for download its PowerShell command line interface and scripting environment, which is targeted at making it easier for IT administrators to manage their Windows environment from Exchange 2007 to Windows Server. PowerShell also works with System Center Operations Manager 2007, System Center Data Protection Manager V2, and System Center VirtualMachine.
Muglia also said that Beta 3 of Longhorn Server, which will be the final beta for the server, is still slated for release in the first half of 2007. Microsoft plans to distribute the beta to a wider number of users than the 500,000 beta testers of Beta 2, which shipped in May.
The final release of Longhorn is still on schedule for the end of 2007, according to Microsoft officials.
Still under review, however, is the new hypervisor virtualization technology, which is code-named Viridian, that has been touted as a feature of Longhorn.
“We are still working through the final details of how we will deliver this,” says Bob Visse, senior director of marketing for Windows Server. The official line remains that Viridian will be delivered 100 to 180 days after Longhorn ships.
“We would certainly love to do anything we could do to pull that in, but we have not made any announcements,” said Visse.
Microsoft’s recent partnership with Novell included a focus on co-developing virtualization technology but it is unclear if that would affect the delivery of Viridian.
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