Here you will find all the articles with the tag: Windows Server.
Microsoft released a bunch of security updates following Patch Tuesday. Check your systems for updates and install these security systems as soon as possible. Following Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released 4 XL-sized security fixes for its products to deal with 12 critical issues that plagued... Read more
2 years ago
Microsoft has hinted at a new feature for future editions of Windows. The software giant had a small event last week that they named the "Windows Server Summit." During the event, Ned Pyle, the principal program manager, showed off new auto-compression features. The feature will work on files be... Read more
3 years ago
A recently patched Windows exploit lets anyone with a network connection obtain full access to the Active Directory domain-controller. Researchers at Secura have developed and published a proof-of-concept exploit for a recently patched Windows vulnerability that can allow access to an organizati... Read more
3 years ago
Even though Microsoft has been releasing test builds of Windows Server to Insiders for testing, they did not share any information on an official basis until August 26th, 2020. Their first official statement about the new builds shared some details about what is in them. Microsoft announced the ... Read more
3 years ago
Google Cloud intends to increase its market share in Windows workloads. To accelerate this, the company announced today that it now supports Windows Server containers in Google Kubernetes Engine. For now, Google has always had a strong focus on Linux workloads, simply because there is more deman... Read more
4 years ago
Microsoft Azure has more Linux users than Windows Server users. In 2017, 40 percent of the Azure virtual machines were Linux-based, and last year the percentage had already risen to 50 percent. Sasha Levin, Microsoft Linux kernel developer, has therefore asked Microsoft to join the Linux security li... Read more
4 years ago
Just before Thanksgiving strikes in the US, Microsoft quietly launches a new Windows Server 2019 Preview build. It is the first Insider Preview for the next major update in the first half of 2019 (19H1). Windows Server 2019 follows the same update cycle as Windows 10: twice a year, once in spring an... Read more
5 years ago
Three years ago, Mark Russinovich, CTO of the Microsoft Azure Cloud, announced that one in four Azure instances was running on Linux. By 2017, that number had risen to forty percent. Today, Microsoft reports that about half of its instances run on Linux, making it the most popular operating system o... Read more
5 years ago
Microsoft released a patch for FragmentSmack. The attack drives the CPU consumption of a Windows system up to 100 percent, so that it no longer responds. The vulnerability is ideal for DDoS attacks on Windows servers. FragmentSmack (CVE-2018-5391) has been known in the Linux community for a long tim... Read more
5 years ago
