Category Archives: Windows Server 2008

Microsoft Acknowledges New Netlogon Issues On Windows Server Machines

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Microsoft has acknowledged a new Windows Server bug that prevents select apps or network devives from establishing secure Netlogon channel connections. The company confirmed on the Windows health dashboard that this problem is caused by the January Patch Tuesday updates, and it impacts all supported versions of Windows Server (via Bleeping Computer). What Is NetLogon? […] Continue reading Microsoft Acknowledges New Netlogon Issues On Windows Server Machines→

Microsoft Out-of-Band Security Update Fixes Windows Remote Access Flaws

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The unscheduled security update addresses two “important”-severity flaws in Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012. Continue reading Microsoft Out-of-Band Security Update Fixes Windows Remote Access Flaws→

Everything You Need to Know About Windows – January 2020

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In January we finally said goodbye to Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. Microsoft made its new Edge browser generally available, fixed a search bug in File Explorer, and started rolling out Calls in Your Phone for Windows 10 19H1 and newer.

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Paul Thurrott’s Short Takes: Microsoft Earnings Special Edition

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Because Microsoft announced its most recent quarterly earnings this week, this edition of Short Takes is going to obsess over the results, with a deeper dive into key parts of the business.

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Everything You Need to Know About Windows – January 2019

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This month sees Windows Server 2019 finally reach general availability in Azure and appear in the Windows Evaluation Center, plus some changes to Internet Explorer in older versions of Windows.

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The Cloud Predictions for 2019

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With 2019 right around the corner, Aidan makes a few predictions about what we will see in the year ahead.

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Happy 10th Birthday Hyper-V!

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Happy 10th Birthday Hyper-V [Image Credit: Jeff Woolsey, @WSV_GUY]

On February 19, 2003, Microsoft announced that the corporation has acquired a privately held virtualization vendor called Connectix. It might not have seemed like it then, but this acquisition was the genesis of something huge in the IT world, and I’m not limiting that to just Hyper-V.

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Microsoft Previews Storage Migration Service in Windows Server 2019

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Paul Thurrott's Short Takes: April 20

Microsoft releases a preview of Storage Migration Service in the latest Insider version of Windows Server 2019. In this Ask the Admin, I’ll provide an overview of what it is and how it works.

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