windows server 2025

Microsoft has flipped the switch: Windows Server 2025 now includes a native NVMe storage stack that removes decades of SCSI translation and exposes NVMe’s multi‑queue, low‑latency semantics to the kernel — a platform modernization that Microsoft says delivers large IOPS uplifts and significant...

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 walked away as the dominant story of the night at The Game Awards 2025, taking home the ceremony’s highest honor, Game of the Year, and picking up a sweeping collection of major prizes that underlined the unexpected power of an independently developed narrative RPG...

Microsoft has finally removed the decades-old SCSI chokehold on NVMe drives in its server operating system: Windows Server 2025 now includes an opt‑in, native NVMe storage stack that bypasses SCSI translation, exposes NVMe multi‑queue semantics to the kernel, and promises substantial IOPS and...

Microsoft has quietly flipped a fundamental switch in its server storage architecture: Windows Server 2025 now ships with an opt‑in Native NVMe storage path that removes the legacy SCSI translation layer, promising substantial IOPS uplifts and measurable CPU savings for modern NVMe SSDs — but...

Microsoft has quietly flipped a fundamental switch in its server storage architecture: Windows Server 2025 now includes an opt‑in Native NVMe storage stack that removes the long-standing SCSI translation layer, promising dramatic IOPS uplifts and substantial CPU savings for modern NVMe SSDs —...

Windows Server 2025 arriving on Amazon EC2 changes the calculus for many enterprises that still run heavy Windows workloads: the OS brings cloud-first security and performance features, and AWS provides ready-to-launch AMIs and integration points so organizations can move faster without...

Microsoft’s October cumulative update, KB5066835, landed not just as another Patch Tuesday bundle but as the vehicle for one of the most consequential storage changes in recent Windows Server history: an explicit push to reduce NVMe storage overhead and let modern SSDs perform closer to their...

Microsoft’s new native server capabilities in Windows Server 2025 are changing long‑standing assumptions about maintenance windows, uptime and operational cost — and the company’s hotpatching rollout in particular is already forcing datacenter teams to rethink update strategy, risk posture, and...

Microsoft’s 25H2 update for Windows 11 lands as a pragmatic, security‑first and AI‑infused refinement rather than a dramatic visual overhaul, but its real significance lies in how Microsoft rewired the platform: faster installs via an enablement package, deeper Copilot integration across core...

Microsoft has quietly fixed a date for the end of an era: Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) — the NetBIOS name-to-IP mapping service first shipped in the mid‑1990s — will not be included in Windows Server releases following Windows Server 2025, and the WINS components that remain in Server...

Microsoft has confirmed a firm end point for a decades‑old piece of Windows networking: Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) will not be included in Windows Server releases after Windows Server 2025, and WINS functionality that remains in Windows Server 2025 will be governed by that product’s...

Microsoft has announced that Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) will be removed from Windows Server releases that follow Windows Server 2025, making Windows Server 2025 the final Long‑Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) release to include WINS, and urging organizations to migrate NetBIOS/WINS...

Microsoft has confirmed a formal timeline to remove Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) from future Windows Server releases — and it has altered the public wording in the official guidance to clarify that WINS in Windows Server 2025 will remain under the product’s standard support lifecycle...

Microsoft published two targeted Safe OS (WinRE) Dynamic Updates on November 11, 2025 — KB5070186 for Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2 (and Windows Server 2025) and KB5069341 for Windows 11 23H2. These small-but-critical packages refresh the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE, also called the...

I am trying to do an "In-Place" upgrade from Server 2019 Standard to Server 2025 Standard. The upgrade fails with the following error 0x8007042B-0x2000D. "Failed on the SAFE_OS PHASE error during Migrate Data operation. I have performed the following: Reset Windows Update and related...

A recent emergency WSUS patch intended to close a critical remote‑code‑execution hole instead produced an unexpected outage in Microsoft’s restart‑free Hotpatch delivery for a small number of Windows Server 2025 instances — a servicing mishap that forced affected systems off the Hotpatch cadence...

Microsoft confirmed that an October out‑of‑band WSUS update (KB5070881) was mistakenly distributed to some Windows Server 2025 machines enrolled in Microsoft’s Hotpatch program, briefly breaking Hotpatch eligibility for a limited number of servers and creating a predictable three‑month...

Upgrading Active Directory domain controllers to Windows Server 2025 is achievable for most organizations, but it demands a disciplined migration plan, careful testing, and attention to a few high‑risk failure modes that can break replication or block forestwide features if overlooked...

Microsoft’s September/October servicing cycle has produced a high-impact collision between a Windows Server 2025 cumulative update and enterprise identity tooling, leaving some organizations with partial directory synchronization and dangerous AD replication failures — a problem Microsoft now...

Microsoft has confirmed that a September 2025 cumulative update for Windows Server 2025 (KB5065426) introduced an Active Directory (AD) replication defect that can break directory synchronization in mixed-version forests when the forest Schema Master FSMO role is hosted on a Windows Server 2025...