Well, Microsoft's Exchange Team just posted that this was actually a deliberate decision by Microsoft: "Two primary technical points drove our decision to not support Windows Server 2008 R2. First, ...

Microsoft explains that timing and testing were big issues in not supporting Exchange Server 2007 SP2 on the newest version of its server operating system – Windows Server 2008 R2 Microsoft, reacting ...

Microsoft released an update for TLS 1.2 support on Windows Server 2008 SP2 (4019276) late last year. However, I note that for R2, we needed to install a patch for it to be supported over RDP.

True to previously announced dates, the first service pack for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is now available via Windows Update. For Windows 7 users, the service pack offers little more than a ...

On May 2, Microsoft made available to testers a beta build of the second service pack (SP2) for its coming Windows Server High Performance Computing (HPC) 2008 R2 platform. What makes this interesting ...

The service Pack (SP) 2 for Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, its high-performance computing product is available for download, as of June 28. There are a number of new technologies in the latest SP, but ...

Mary Jo Foley writes that here are a number of new technologies in the latest service pack for Windows HPC Server, but there’s one key promised component that’s not: Dryad, an ongoing research project ...