{"id":8707,"date":"2006-12-22T12:39:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8707"},"modified":"2006-12-22T12:39:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"what-is-longhorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8707","title":{"rendered":"What Is Longhorn?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I&#8217;ve been asked &quot;What is Longhorn?&quot; by a lot of people in recent weeks.\u00a0 &quot;Longhorn&quot; is the codename of the next generation of Microsoft Windows Server.\u00a0 It used to be the project name for the Server and Vista project.\u00a0 It now refers to what will likely be called Windows Server 2007\/2008.\u00a0 It&#8217;s currently in beta testing.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>There&#8217;s loads of new features.\u00a0 Microsoft has set up a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsserver\/longhorn\/default.mspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">site <\/a>to sportlight some of them.\u00a0 Some highlights are:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Network Access Protection: NAP is a quarantine service that will query LAN clients to see if they meet configuration requirements before allowing them to talk to servers or other clients on the network.\u00a0 Clients that do not meet requirements will be quarantined, i.e. not recieve a ticket to talk to other domain\/forest members.\u00a0 The quarantined machines will have access to talk to Anti Virus, SMS or WSUS servers to resolve outstanding issues automatically or manually.\u00a0 It will also integrate with Configuartion Manager 2007 (SMS v4).<\/li>\n<li>TCP:\u00a0 This is a rewrite as in Vista.\u00a0 IP6 is integrated into the stack, i.e. a single stack can have both existing IP4 and the new IP6 address.\u00a0 Optimisation has also been introduced to autotune the performance of TCP.\u00a0 TCP Offload Engine is offered on supporting hardware to allow a NIC to process TCP tasks instead of the CPU.<\/li>\n<li>SMB 2.0 introduces more security via mutual authentication and signing.\u00a0 There\u00a0are also performance gains for file share browsing over latent links, e.g. WAN or\u00a0VPN.<\/li>\n<li>Network Policies: Network polices can be defined for Wired or WiFi network connections via group policy.\u00a0 Windows Firewall policies can be defined for inbound <em>and outbound<\/em> connections.\u00a0 IPSec has been simplified an introduces new authentication methods.<\/li>\n<li>Printing: Clients can render a print job locally, thus reducing CPU load on a print server.<\/li>\n<li>IIS7 will continue the trend of effering new functionality to developers and increased security and stability for administrators.<\/li>\n<li>Centralised Logging: It&#8217;s being claimed that clients will be able to forward specified events to a centralised logging server.\u00a0 This reads like it\u00a0is not intended to replace MOM 2005\/OM 2007 or Audit Collection Services.<\/li>\n<li>New domain functionality: A read only domain controller can be placed in branch offices where it is too risky to place a full domain controller (i.e. no physical security).\u00a0 There is the ability to build a stripped down DC that only has core server functionality, i.e. the OS can only perform DC tasks and doesn&#8217;t even have a GUI!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve also heard in seminars that the domain controller role will actually be a service(s) that can be started or stopped without affecting the server.\u00a0 This will also allow delegated administration of the server without giving domainadministrator group membership to branch administrators who manage the local physical machines.<\/li>\n<li>Terminal Services: Increasing the creep on Citrix-like functionality, &quot;Longhorn&quot; will include an SSL gateway for internet access to Terminal Servers.\u00a0 There will also be seamless application publication allowing TS based applications to appear on a desktop computer side-by-side with desktop based applications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is going to be a big and exciting releases by Microsoft.\u00a0 I highly recommend you start doing your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsserver\/longhorn\/default.mspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">research <\/a>now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been asked &quot;What is Longhorn?&quot; by a lot of people in recent weeks.\u00a0 &quot;Longhorn&quot; is the codename of the next generation of Microsoft Windows Server.\u00a0 It used to be the project name for the Server and Vista project.\u00a0 It now refers to what will likely be called Windows Server 2007\/2008.\u00a0 It&#8217;s currently in beta &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8707\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Is Longhorn?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}