Category Archives: Windows Server 2012

Microsoft to Offer Three More Years of Windows Server 2012 Extended Security Updates

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Microsoft has announced that it would provide three additional years of Windows Server 2012 Extended Security Updates (ESUs). This move is aimed at granting IT administrators extra time to upgrade or transition their workloads to Azure. Microsoft officially ended mainstream support for Windows Server 2012 in October 2018. The company offered extended support for all…

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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→

Understanding Windows Server 2016’s Disaster Recovery Features

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If you are running Windows Server 2016, you already have a robust set of DR tools at your disposal but the question is, are you utilizing them?

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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’s October Patch Batch Fixes 62 Flaws

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Microsoft on Tuesday released software updates to fix at least 62 security vulnerabilities in Windows, Office and other software. Two of those flaws were detailed publicly before yesterday’s patches were released, and one of them is already being exploited in active attacks, so attackers already have a head start. Continue reading Microsoft’s October Patch Batch Fixes 62 Flaws→

Microsoft Is Paying Up To $250,000 With Its New Bug Bounty Program

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Microsoft has finally launched a new dedicated bug bounty program to encourage security researchers and bug hunters for finding and responsibly reporting vulnerabilities in its latest Windows versions of operating systems and software.

Being the favourite target of hackers and cyber criminals, every single zero-day vulnerability in Windows OS—from critical remote code execution, mitigation

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