Security by default – protecting the enterprise in SQL Server 2025Issued by Ascent TechnologyJohannesburg, 25 Mar 2026 ...

In addition to rolling out patches to address two zero-days affecting SQL Server and .NET, Microsoft introduced Common Log File System hardening with signature verification.

Microsoft has announced that Windows Server 2022 and Windows Server 2025 Failover Clusters now officially support running Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) CSVs (Cluster Shared Volumes) and traditional SAN ...

Microsoft SQL Server Express LocalDB is a feature of [!INCLUDE [ssexpress-md](../../includes/ssexpress-md.md)] targeted to developers. It's available on SQL Server ...

A port is a logical access point used by networking protocols to distinguish different services on the same device. For example, HTTP uses port 80, HTTPS uses 443, and RDP uses 3389. Windows Firewall ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. The latest warning from CISA, as part of Binding Operational ...

This month’s collection of fixes from Microsoft includes 86 patches — but at least there were no zero-day bugs. Microsoft released 86 patches this week with updates for Office, Windows, and SQL Server ...

The web-based UI for managing all aspects of Windows Server, Windows Server Admin Center (WAC) sure has grown up a lot in the last seven years. If you're new to the concept, you can run WAC on a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Privilege escalation vulnerabilities are among the worst you ...

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Microsoft has fixed a bug that was causing some Windows Server 2022 systems with two or more NUMA nodes to fail to start up. NUMA (short for non-uniform memory access) is a computer memory ...

Microsoft has announced the preview release of SQL Server 2025, the next iteration of the popular SQL Server 2022 database management system. SQL Server 2025 is designed to power AI applications in ...