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Active Directory improvements in Windows Server 2025

Dan Cuomo on Jul 26 2024 08:19 AM
This article focuses on Active Directory improvements coming to Windows Server 2025 as published in the 2024 Windows Ser...
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Next-generation SMB file services

Dan Cuomo on Jul 19 2024 05:00 AM
This article focuses on new improvements in SMB file services in Windows Server 2025 as published in the 2024 Windows Se...
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Supercharge your datacenters with Hyper-V and virtualized GPUs

Dan Cuomo on Jul 12 2024 05:00 AM
This article focuses on virtualized GPUs with Hyper-V in Windows Server 2025 as published in the 2024 Windows Server Sum...
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New storage features in Windows Server 2025

Dan Cuomo on Jul 05 2024 05:00 AM
This article focuses on new storage features in Windows Server 2025 as published in the 2024 Windows Server Summit held ...
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Securely design your applications and protect your sensitive data with VBS enclaves

Hari_Pulapaka on Jul 01 2024 08:39 AM
VBS enclaves are new way to design and securely build your apps on Windows.
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Improving server security and productivity with Hotpatching

Dan Cuomo on Jun 28 2024 05:00 AM
This article focuses on Hotpatching coming in Windows Server 2025 as published in the 2024 Windows Server Summit held in...
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Microsoft options for VMware migration

Dan Cuomo on Jun 21 2024 05:00 AM
This article focuses on options for migrating from VMware to Windows Server 2025 as published in the 2024 Windows Server...
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Use GPUs with Clustered VMs through Direct Device Assignment

afiaboakye on Jun 19 2024 02:38 PM
This article talks about one of Microsoft's GPU virtualization technologies, which offers direct GPU access to clustered...
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Windows Server 2025 and beyond

Dan Cuomo on Jun 14 2024 05:00 AM
This article focuses on what’s new and what’s coming in Windows Server 2025 as published in the 2024 Windows Server Summ...
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Hyper-V live migration network selection in Windows Server 2025

Steven Ekren on Jun 13 2024 08:33 AM
See how we’re enhancing network selection for Windows Server 2025 and Azure Stack HCI 24H2
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Run untrusted content safely with Windows Sandbox

Kavya_Nagalakunta on May 14 2024 12:10 PM
As a developer, accessing unfamiliar files or repos can sometimes be a challenge. You do not know if they are safe or po...
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Azure Host OS Update with Hypervisor Hot Restart

Hari_Pulapaka on Sep 06 2023 09:48 AM
Instantly update the Hypervisor on Azure with no customer impact. 
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Confidential VMs on Azure

Caroline_Perezvargas on May 31 2023 11:43 AM
How did Microsoft build the Confidential VM capabilities leveraging confidential hardware platforms?
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Azure Host OS – Cloud Host

Hari_Pulapaka on Jan 06 2023 11:24 AM
Have you ever wondered how we run the Azure nodes in the data center? How does Windows look on Azure hosts?
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Windows OS Platform

Hari_Pulapaka on Jan 03 2023 05:08 PM
Updated Windows kernel internals blog to Windows OS Platform blog 
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Multi-Key Total Memory Encryption on Windows 11 22H2

Jin_Lin on Nov 23 2022 02:14 PM
Data-in-use protection has recently become available through the latest generation hardware in Azure, providing an end-t...
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Hotpatching on Windows

Mehmet_Iyigun on Nov 19 2021 07:05 PM
Hotpatching is an impact-less update technology which has been keeping the Azure fleet up-to-date for years with zero im...
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Getting to Know ARM64EC: #Defines and Intrinsic Functions

Mehmet_Iyigun on Nov 18 2021 12:55 AM
In this post, we start describing ARM64EC, a new ABI that makes it easy to build native apps for Windows on ARM even if ...
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Developer Guidance for Hardware-enforced Stack Protection

Jin_Lin on Feb 24 2021 12:47 PM
Windows 10 implementation details of Hardware-enforced Stack Protection, which takes advantage of the latest chipset sec...
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Introducing Kernel Data Protection, a new security technology for preventing data corruption

Mehmet_Iyigun on Jul 08 2020 10:45 AM
Kernel Data Protection (KDP) is a new technology that prevents data corruption attacks by protecting parts of the Window...
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Securely donate CPU time with Windows Sandbox

Hari_Pulapaka on Apr 06 2020 12:11 PM
Run Folding@Home in Windows Sandbox 
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Understanding Hardware-enforced Stack Protection

Hari_Pulapaka on Mar 24 2020 08:54 AM
ROP (Return Oriented Programming) based control flow attacks have become a common form of attack. In this post, we will ...
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DTrace on Windows – 20H1 updates

Hari_Pulapaka on Jan 27 2020 11:51 AM
DTrace on Windows updates for 20H1 - now without local KD attach requirement.
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DTrace on Windows

Hari_Pulapaka on Mar 11 2019 10:04 AM
Introducing DTrace on Windows 10 
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Windows Sandbox - Config Files

Hari_Pulapaka on Feb 21 2019 12:37 PM
Windows Sandbox now supports minimal scripting 
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Windows Sandbox

Hari_Pulapaka on Dec 18 2018 04:18 PM
Windows Sandbox is a new lightweight desktop environment tailored for safely running applications in isolation. Learn mo...
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Mitigating Spectre variant 2 with Retpoline on Windows

Mehmet_Iyigun on Dec 05 2018 04:37 PM
Read about how the Windows Kernel team adapted retpoline for Windows to deliver a high-performance mitigation for Spectr...
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One Windows Kernel

Hari_Pulapaka on Oct 17 2018 12:39 PM
In this blog post, I will talk about the evolution of the core pieces of the Windows kernel that allows it to transparen...

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Alex Kwitny
in Windows Sandbox - Config Files on Jul 25 2024 01:03 PM
@HotCakeX unfortunately it's not easy with PowerShell due to the architecture of Windows Sandbox unless you're willing to expose the environment variables in plain text and/or encrypt them and pass them to the sandbox. The logon commands are executed inside the sandbox, so there's no way for it to a...
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HotCakeX
in Windows Sandbox - Config Files on Jul 25 2024 12:30 PM
@BevanWeiss You can totally do that with PowerShell.
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LCKho3693
in Hyper-V live migration network selection in Windows Server 2025 on Jul 16 2024 03:54 AM
This is cool.  Looking forward. 
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mashdk
in Supercharge your datacenters with Hyper-V and virtualized GPUs on Jul 13 2024 12:23 AM
We badly need GPU-P to come to laptops with Windows 11.Using PAWs today is a dread, because the desktop VM performance is horrible.
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MichaelMortenSonne
in Introducing GPU Innovations with Windows Server 2025 on Jun 24 2024 11:24 AM
Nice add - finnally! ;)
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