Microsoft boosts Windows Server 2025 security with NTLM auditing, RPC over TCP enforcement, and updated baseline policies.

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Microsoft has ended all support for the Vista/Server 2008 codebase Standard support, ESU, and even PA timelines have all passed Windows Server 2012 is next, ESU ends October 2026 Microsoft has ...

In the future, updates for Windows 11 (24H2/25H2) and Server 2025 will receive separate KB numbers. This could streamline updates. Starting with the upcoming patch day on January 13, 2026, Microsoft ...

As Microsoft phases out older Exchange Server versions, IT leaders are facing new decisions about how to stay compliant and cost-efficient. Understanding the current licensing landscape for Windows ...

With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work. Today, at Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Hot on the heels of the NSA publishing a “high-risk of ...

ThioJoe shares shortcut tricks that reveal hidden Windows folder functions. Dominican Republic says it seized cocaine that was on speedboat destroyed by U.S. Navy Disney's ‘Lilith Fair' Doc Premiere: ...

This month’s collection of fixes from Microsoft includes 86 patches — but at least there were no zero-day bugs. Microsoft released 86 patches this week with updates for Office, Windows, and SQL Server ...

Microsoft will remove PowerShell 2.0 from Windows starting in August, eight years after announcing its deprecation and keeping it around as an optional feature. The 14-year-old command processor ...

Snowflake wants to reduce enterprises’ reliance on data engineers and data scientists for unstructured data analysis with its new SQL functions powered by generative AI. Snowflake is adding generative ...