High-availability requirements in enterprise environments have always pushed IT teams to juggle security, updates, and uptime with painstaking precision. For decades, server maintenance windows have meant nervous anticipation, late-night patching marathons, and the perpetual risk of business...
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The announcement that reboot-free hot patching is set to expand beyond Azure and become a standard feature for non-cloud Windows Server instances signals a notable shift in the management and security landscape for enterprise IT environments. Until now, Microsoft’s hot patching...
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Amid significant developments in operating system management, Microsoft has announced a major shift for one of the most lauded features previewed in Windows Server 2025: hotpatching. This transition, confirmed by multiple reputable sources including Microsoft documentation and industry analysis...
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For the better part of two decades, Patch Tuesday has been both a blessing and a bane for Windows administrators. The routine delivery of security patches has safeguarded billions of devices, but the necessity to reboot mission-critical servers has led to countless late nights and meticulously...
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Microsoft’s announcement of hotpatching for Windows Server 2025 is more than simply a new technical feature—it's the culmination of years of innovation aimed squarely at reducing downtime, simplifying IT workflows, and fortifying enterprise security. For anyone who has ever coordinated overnight...
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In the rapidly evolving landscape of enterprise IT, one of the most persistent challenges is maintaining system security and stability without sacrificing uptime. The perennial trade-off between applying critical security updates and facing disruptive system reboots has long frustrated...
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Microsoft's announcement that hotpatching—an innovative method of applying security updates without server reboots—will shift to a paid, subscription-based model for Windows Server 2025 marks a pivotal change in enterprise IT management and security strategies. This move, taking effect from July...
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In today's fast-evolving digital landscape, cloud technology continues to redefine how enterprises manage security and storage. Two recent developments have caught the attention of Windows IT professionals: a global cybersecurity advance...
Hotpatching, a revolutionary approach to system updates, is taking center stage in Microsoft's ever-evolving Windows update strategy. With the March 11, 2025 Hotpatch Public Preview, outlined in knowledge base article KB5053636, Microsoft signals a new era for Windows users eager for stability...
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Are you tired of lagging performance from your current hard drive? Or perhaps you're feeling cramped with the limited space of your old trusty HDD? If so, moving your Windows 11 operating system to an SSD or a larger drive might just be the ticket to reviving your PC’s performance. Fortunately...
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In today’s lightning-fast digital age, where downtime is as welcome as a mosquito at a waterfall party, businesses can’t afford interruptions in their critical applications. For organizations running SAP systems—the backbone of enterprise resource planning (ERP)—downtime isn’t just an...
In a significant development for IT and operational technology teams, Stratus®, a prominent brand under Penguin Solutions (NASDAQ: PENG), has unveiled its Stratus ztC Endurance™ platform support for Microsoft Windows Server 2022. This announcement, made public on November 14, 2024, is poised to...
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Today we are releasing Windows Server Insider Preview Build 17093 to Windows Server Insiders. This build is a preview build of the next Semi-Annual Channel release of Windows Server. For more information on the Semi-Annual channel, please see the Windows Server...
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Fixes an issue in which the high availability feature for a storage array does not work as expected, and an IPsec session takes longer than expected to connect to a storage controller. This issue occurs on a computer that is running Windows Vista,...
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Microsoft has made available for download the first Release Candidate of Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0, which was formerly known as Geneva Server. With the RC development milestone, Microsoft has focused mainly on integrating early adopter feedback...