eWeek Reviews Longhorn Server

Wednesday, 24 May 2006 by Michel Roth

eWeek has has reviewed Longhorn Server Builds 5381 and 5384: Superficially, Longhorn Server expands on the ease-of-configuration strengths of Windows Server 2003. Under the hood, Longhorn Server sports a new TCP/IP stack along with performance and functionality improvements in most of the product's core server roles.

Longhorn Server is slated to ship some time after the release of Vista, the client half of Microsoft's upcoming Windows refresh. However, we expect that many organizations will end up upgrading to Longhorn Server before making a move to Vista. Windows server upgrades will involve touching fewer machines and will stand to deliver more value per upgraded box than will the client upgrades.

Longhorn Server ships with some interesting improvements to the
system's Terminal Services functionality, including support for tunneling Terminal Services' Remote Desktop Protocol over HTTP Secure and offering up Terminal Services sessions on a per-application basis.

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