windows server 2025

Microsoft’s September 2025 hardening update for Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) on Windows Server 2025 removes legacy update binaries used by WSUS to service the Windows Update SelfUpdate component, and that change has immediate operational implications for organizations still relying on...

TEKLYNX’s latest product cycle tightens the company’s focus on standards, cloud connectivity, and modern runtime compatibility—rolling out what Label & Narrow Web calls the TEKLYNX 2025 family (LABEL MATRIX, LABELVIEW, CODESOFT, SENTINEL and LABEL ARCHIVE) with new features aimed at GS1 Digital...

Microsoft has published advisory guidance tied to CVE‑2025‑55234 that focuses less on a new exploitable bug and more on enabling administrators to find and measure exposure to SMB relay‑style elevation‑of‑privilege attacks before they flip stronger hardening controls. The short form: the SMB...

Microsoft has confirmed and mitigated a compatibility regression introduced by the August 12, 2025 security update KB5063878 that caused unexpected User Account Control (UAC) prompts and failed repairs for applications using Windows Installer (MSI), with the Windows Server 2025 release-health...

Esri’s announcement that VBScript is deprecated throughout ArcGIS effective September 2025 sets a firm deadline for GIS professionals to stop relying on an aging scripting engine and begin migrating label, symbology, calculator, and evaluator logic to modern, supported expression languages such...

Microsoft’s August 2025 servicing wave is the most operationally significant Windows 11 release window in months: it moves day‑one patching into the Out‑of‑Box Experience (OOBE), promotes Windows Backup for Organizations to general availability, extends hotpatching across server and (limited)...

Microsoft has quietly pushed three Out‑of‑Box Experience (OOBE) servicing packages — KB5065813, KB5065847, and KB5065848 — that change how Windows 11 (22H2/23H2/24H2) and Windows Server 2025 are provisioned at first boot, enabling day‑one quality updates and delivering emergency fixes to...

Microsoft pushed two targeted Dynamic Updates over the weekend — KB5065378 and KB5064097 — aimed at hardening setup and recovery for Windows 11, version 24H2, and Windows Server 2025, refreshing the small but critical set of setup binaries and the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) used during...

Microsoft quietly published two targeted Dynamic Update packages for Windows 11, version 24H2 (and Windows Server 2025) — KB5065378 (a Setup Dynamic Update) and KB5064097 (a Safe OS / WinRE Dynamic Update) — on August 29, 2025, delivering refreshed setup binaries and a new Windows Recovery...

Microsoft’s August 29, 2025 OOBE update (KB5065847) marks a deliberate pivot in how Windows 11, version 24H2 and Windows Server 2025 handle day‑one security and servicing: managed devices that meet the eligibility rules can now check for and install Windows quality updates during the final...

Microsoft released KB5065848 on August 29, 2025 — a targeted Out‑of‑Box Experience (OOBE) update for Windows 11, version 24H2 and Windows Server 2025 — that changes how device provisioning and enrollment behave during first‑time setup and supplies updated management/enrollment components used...

Microsoft published a new Setup Dynamic Update package, KB5065378, for Windows 11, version 24H2 and Windows Server 2025 on August 29, 2025 — a narrowly scoped but important backstage update that refreshes the setup binaries and SafeOS components used during feature updates and installations. The...

Microsoft published KB5064097 on August 29, 2025 — a Safe OS Dynamic Update that refreshes the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) for Windows 11, version 24H2 and Windows Server 2025, delivering a new WinRE image (WinRE version 10.0.26100.5059), updated Safe‑OS binaries and drivers, and...

Microsoft will audit and then begin enforcing a block on NTLMv1–derived credentials in Windows 11, version 24H2 and Windows Server 2025: the change is gated by a new registry key (BlockNtlmv1SSO), exposes two new NTLM event IDs for Audit vs Enforce behavior, and will be rolled out in phases...

Microsoft has updated guidance in its Security Update Guide advisory ADV200013 — the advisory that covers DNS resolver spoofing and cache‑poisoning attacks — and is explicitly telling administrators that in addition to older server builds the mitigation applies to newer releases such as Windows...

Microsoft’s latest move to automate and AI‑assist Windows Server 2025 upgrades promises to cut the friction and risk that have long dogged enterprise patch cycles, but the effort is also a reminder that automation without clear metadata and robust controls can make things worse as quickly as it...

Windows Server 2019 has entered a new phase of its lifecycle: mainstream support ended on January 9, 2024, and Microsoft will provide security-only updates during the extended support period through January 9, 2029. After that date the product reaches full end of life (EOL) and will no longer...

A recent technical feature in International Daily News highlighted some of the most overlooked yet critical components in the Microsoft ecosystem: the interaction between IIS (Internet Information Services) and the Windows Server platform, common post-installation errors in WSUS (Windows Server...

Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) and its relationship with Windows Server have once again become a focus. Recent reports from Hong Kong and international media, along with practical feedback from community forums, show that as Microsoft continues to release security patches and...

Enterprise administrators are reporting that Windows Update error 0x80240069 appears when deploying the August cumulative update KB5063878 through WSUS or SCCM, while the same package installs cleanly via Windows Update and manual downloads. The pattern points to a delivery path problem in...