Microsoft has made no secret of its determination to expand into the data center, but this growth may not happen by the company's own hand.
Today, one of Microsoft's partners, Vintela Inc., Lindon, Utah, plans to release software that lets IT administrators bring the functions of Microsoft's Group Policy to Unix and Linux systems so they can be centrally managed by a Windows administrator. The software, called Vintela Group Policy (VGP), lets IT administrators apply the same policies to those servers as they would to any Windows server.
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