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Kaspersky’s GReAT team has pulled back the curtain on a deliberately targeted cyber‑espionage operation they call PassiveNeuron, a campaign that focuses on Windows Server hosts and employs a multi‑stage DLL loader chain, two previously undocumented implants (Neursite and NeuralExecutor) and...

Microsoft has confirmed CVE-2025-59260 as a local information‑disclosure vulnerability in the Microsoft Failover Cluster virtual driver that can write sensitive cluster state into log files or otherwise expose privileged configuration data to low‑privileged local actors, and Microsoft has...

Microsoft has published a security advisory for CVE-2025-59188, an information-disclosure vulnerability in Microsoft Failover Cluster that can allow a low‑privilege, local actor to read sensitive information written to cluster diagnostic/log files; a vendor fix is available and the vulnerability...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-55700: an out‑of‑bounds read in the Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) that can allow a remote actor to elicit unintended memory contents from an affected system, resulting in network‑accessible information disclosure; administrators...

Windows Server’s built‑in Data Deduplication can turn wasted disk capacity into usable space, lower backup windows and storage costs, and extend the life of existing arrays — but only when it’s planned, configured, and monitored correctly. Background Data Deduplication (Windows Server feature)...

The short list of books that every Windows admin should consider in 2025 centers on practical, hands‑on titles that reflect the operating system Microsoft shipped for enterprise environments and the management toolsets used today—books that teach Windows Server administration, PowerShell...

Bloomberg’s Managed Systems Engineering team is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer — Windows Services to lead a global effort to modernize and harden the company’s Active Directory (AD) estate, manage the Windows server fleet, and operate identity and access services at massive scale; the role is...

Below is a long-form feature article you can use on WindowsForum.com. It summarizes ANSSI’s guidance (the “Start‑up security for Windows servers” publication you linked), validates and expands that guidance against Microsoft and CIS recommendations, and gives a practical, step‑by‑step playbook...

At the end of September 2025 several administrators reported a recurring and highly disruptive pattern: Remote Desktop Session Host (RDS / Remote Desktop Server) instances would suddenly stop responding to user input while sessions remained “attached” and displayed only a black screen — and...

Ziff Davis’s engineering team and AWS partnered to replace an ad hoc, error-prone Windows server provisioning process with an automated, repeatable pipeline built on EC2 Image Builder and AWS Systems Manager — delivering consistent IIS hosts, simplified patching, and faster recovery while...

Part 2 of this two-part series moves from licensing and Active Directory decisions into the hands‑on mechanics you must master to migrate Windows Server workloads to Amazon EC2: choosing the correct virtualization platform and instance family, verifying boot‑mode compatibility (UEFI vs Legacy...

Microsoft has pushed a new Windows Server vNext Insider preview — Build 26491 — and for the first time the server preview channel is shipping with flighting (in‑place OS upgrade via Windows Update) enabled for Desktop Experience installations. That single operational change shifts how...

Microsoft’s May 13, 2025 hotpatch for Windows PowerShell, released as KB5061096, is a narrowly scoped security update aimed at reducing immediate exposure for hotpatch‑eligible systems while preserving uptime for high‑availability deployments; it applies only to devices enrolled in Microsoft’s...

RiverMeadow’s announcement that its Workload Mobility Platform now supports Microsoft Azure Local marks a notable development for enterprises weighing VMware alternatives and planning large-scale cloud migrations. The vendor’s pitch—faster migrations, hybrid on‑premises + Azure management...

Oracle’s sudden emergence as a credible AI cloud contender has shifted the conversation: a company long defined by databases is now pitching a bold, capital‑intensive roadmap that — if every assumption holds — could place Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) among the industry’s leaders for AI...

The Downadup/Conficker worm’s sudden surge in early 2009 forced a brutal reminder onto the Windows ecosystem: unpatched systems and lax patch management can turn ordinary desktops and servers into the backbone of a global botnet in a matter of days. Background Microsoft released an out‑of‑cycle...

CVPeople Tanzania’s recent bulk hiring for frontline airport IT roles is a practical signpost: the company has advertised a large cohort of Junior IT Support Technician positions whose duties place them squarely inside passenger‑facing, identity‑management infrastructure — work that combines...

CVPeople Tanzania’s latest recruitment push — an advertised IT Airport Supervisor role alongside a coordinated intake of frontline technicians — confirms a visible expansion of on‑site IT capacity at Tanzania’s airports and signals an operational shift toward locally managed biometric and...

If you manage Windows Server, the three quickest and most reliable ways to answer the simple-but-critical question “When did this machine last reboot?” are the Command Prompt (systeminfo), PowerShell (Win32_OperatingSystem / Get-CimInstance), and Event Viewer (System log Event IDs). Each method...

When a Windows Server hosts services for users or other systems, port visibility is one of the first and most essential things an administrator must master; knowing which ports are listening, which are established, and which are blocked by a firewall directly affects uptime, security posture...