Microsoft announced some changes yesterday regarding its release schedule for Windows monthly updates. While nothing changes for the “Patch Tuesday” updates released on the second Tuesday of each month, the company announced a new release window for optional non-security preview patches released later in the month. Starting next month, Microsoft will now target the fourth...
September was Ignite month – I will get to that in a moment. That means there should be lots of news. And this should be a post full of Azure announcements. But will it be?
Aidan Finn examines Microsoft’s new feature that allows you to control the forced outages that occur to virtual machines when patches are delivered to Azure’s compute hosts.
Aidan Finn shares a summary of the improvements to the Azure virtual machine and related services and features announced at the Microsoft Ignite 2017 conference.
Take a look at the steps which, when taken together, should minimize your risks of being successfully attacked by ransomware such as WannaCrypt, CryptoLocker, and a plethora of other variants that are ravaging businesses of all sizes around the world.
Microsoft has quietly patched security vulnerabilities used by the NSA after they were made public over the weekend but who tipped off Microsoft remains unknown.
Patches are your friend. Learn to patch Hyper-V in a failover cluster with Windows Server 2012 Cluster Aware Updating and System Center 2012 SP1 VMM.
Show that WSUS who’s who! Discover how to install Windows Server Update Services 2012 (WSUS) reporting and how to manage it with PowerShell.