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Discussions tagged with 'dc outages' on WindowsForum.com focus on Active Directory domain controller availability and security, particularly the impact of Microsoft's 2025 Netlogon hardening updates. These updates, part of cumulative updates from July and August 2025, strengthen the Microsoft RPC Netlogon protocol and address CVE-2025-49716, an unauthenticated resource-exhaustion vector. However, they have introduced compatibility issues with third-party services like Samba, potentially leading to DC outages or operational disruptions in mixed environments. The tag covers troubleshooting, security hardening, and compatibility concerns related to domain controller stability.
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    Netlogon Hardening in 2025 Updates: AD DC Security vs Samba Compatibility

    Microsoft has quietly but decisively reworked how Active Directory domain controllers answer certain Netlogon RPC calls — a change rolled into the July and August 2025 cumulative updates that hardens the Microsoft RPC Netlogon protocol, closes an unauthenticated resource‑exhaustion vector...
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    • active directory cifs compatibility cve-2025-49716 dc outages dns ldap kerberos idmap ad netlogon network segmentation patch management rpc netlogon samba security hardening vendor advisories windows server windows server 2022
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