An important partner in the affordable client space has been NComputing, who just announced a new upgrade to its vSpace Virtualization Platform. vSpace Server 7.1 takes advantage of the user experience advances in Windows MultiPoint Server 2012 and Windows...

Now that Update Rollup 1 is available on the Download Center and via Windows Update we’ve heard from a few customers who missed that if you are using the MultiPoint Connector to manage Windows 7 PCs, Windows 8 PCs or Virtual Desktops running in...

There has been a lot of activity and questions around WMS 2012, so now seems like a good time to do a summary of the many online resources available. Website - www.microsoft.com/multipoint has been refreshed for WMS 2012, highlighting new scenarios...

Today's post comes to you courtesy of Spandana Battula of the WMS team: This is one of the biggest feature additions in WMS 2012 over WMS2011. Through the Instant Messaging (IM) feature, students will now be able to privately send a message to the...

We’re happy to announce that WMS 2012 UR1 has been signed off. We recommend that all customers apply this as it has some changes that increase general system stability. But most importantly it adds support for USB-Over-Ethernet Zero clients. ...

As we announce broad availability of WMS 2012 you can hear a few thoughts from Anthony Salcito, our VP of Worldwide Education, on how this changes the game in delivering, managing and benefiting from technology in education. http://blogs.technet.com...

Zero clients are an inexpensive and convenient way to easily expand the number of stations of your Windows Multipoint Server. One of the exciting changes of Windows MultiPoint Server 2012 is a new zero client plug-in architecture that can greatly improve...

Hi, James here. Another new feature that has been generating a lot of excitement is using the MultiPoint Connector to orchestrate traditional client computers in the same way that we treat MultiPoint stations. So a teacher has the same visibility and...

Hi, James here. The most prominent feature in WMS 2012 that gets used day in and day out, real time in the classroom is the Multipoint Dashboard. In a way everything is new because the features that were previously in the MultiPoint Manager Desktops tab...

Today's post comes from Ratnesh Yadav from the Windows MultiPoint Server team. (Updated March 27th, 2013 with information on Update Rollup 1. Updated April 2nd, 2013 with details on connecting remote stations to WMS Virtual Desktops, both at the end)...

Today's post comes from Ratnesh Yadav from the Windows MultiPoint Server team. (Updated March 8th, 2013 with additional instructions for using alternate disk partitions at the end) W indows MultiPoint Server (WMS) 2012 has a very cool new feature called...

One of the most rewarding parts of being on the Multipoint Server / Remote Desktop team is seeing the products we build bring access to technology to those most in need. This often involves partnering with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) that work...

Hi everyone, James Duffus here with some more big news from the MultiPoint Server team. Today, we’re excited to announce that Windows MultiPoint Server 2012 is released and an Evaluation version is available for download here . Note that you can...

Today's post comes from Ratnesh Yadav from the Windows MultiPoint Server team. Many users of Windows MultiPoint Server (WMS) 2011 have told us that they want to expand their usage of WMS but need to be able to run applications that are not compatible...

Hi everyone, James Duffus here with some big news from the MultiPoint Server team. Today, we’re excited to announce that the Windows MultiPoint Server 2012 Beta is live and available for download at our Connect site. In February of 2010 and in...

Hey everyone, It’s been a busy time on the MultiPoint Server team, but we’re excited to be at Microsoft’s TechED North America conference in Orlando this week! The conference kicked off with STB President Satya Nadella’s keynote...

Hey Folks, Steven Goddard here from the Windows MultiPoint Server team again. Today's post is a repost the first appeared on the Small Business Server team blog in which I was happy to be involved with. We had a great time working together with HP...

Hey Folks, Steven Goddard here from the WMS Team. Update Rollup 1.1 for Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 is now available via Windows Update. If you have enabled your MultiPoint Server for automatic updates and haven't installed it yet, it will be installed...

Today's post is a repost the first appeared on the Small Business Server team blog. I am very happy to announce the launch of the Extreme IT Makeover , a joint program between Microsoft and HP where both companies work with their large community...

Hey folks, since we posted the “ MultiPoint and Hyper-V ” blog post last month, we’ve gotten some follow-up questions specific to virtualization which are answered here: Q: Can I use Windows MultiPoint Server as a Hyper-V host? How...

Hi Everyone, I am Steven Goddard and I work on the WMS team as the Release Manager and Program Manager. Livi has gone back to school, so I am posting on her behalf. As mentioned in a previous post , one of the cool features for Windows MultiPoint...

One of the cool yet relatively unknown features of Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 Premium is the ability to use it as a Hyper-V host or as a Hyper-V guest operating system. And because of the 1+1 licensing with Windows MultiPoint, one copy of MultiPoint...

Hi everyone, Livi here again with exciting news! The Update Rollup 1 for Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 has officially been released and is available for free download on the Download Center . A couple months back, James Duffus, the Group Program Manager...

Hey everyone, Livi here again! I bring you a much-anticipated video on how to install Windows MultiPoint Server 2011. We get a lot of questions about different parts of the installation process, so we've made a short video as a step-by-step walkthrough...

Hey guys! One of the questions that we are frequently asked on the TechNet Forums is about installing programs on MultiPoint. As always, there are hardware considerations, but with WMS, some extra things need to be considered prior to installing software...