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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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keithw471
in Multi-Key Total Memory Encryption on Windows 11 22H2 on Feb 27 2023 10:38 AM
@Jin_Lin  Any update on this?
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Olivier Hault
in Windows OS Platform on Feb 13 2023 08:10 AM
I would also find interesting to blog about the "tidal" wave of key evolving Windows technologies over the last 20 years like Panther, CBS, WinSxS, DISM, DWM, deep dive into Container technologies, HNS, HCS, WSL architecture, and upcoming one like memory disaggregation, CXL support, ...
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Olivier Hault
in Azure Host OS – Cloud Host on Feb 07 2023 12:52 PM
According to the new sustainability commitment of Microsoft, It would make a lot of sense to ship Cloud Host for Azure Stack Hub, Azure Stack HCI and as a successor of Windows Server 2016 Nano Server edition.
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Jan Ringoš
in Azure Host OS – Cloud Host on Feb 01 2023 04:20 AM
It would be nice, if one could slim down Server Core, or Azure Stack HCI for that matter, to this level of footprint size and overhead.
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K_Wester-Ebbinghaus
in Azure Host OS – Cloud Host on Jan 27 2023 06:36 PM
@Hari_PulapakaAnd does Azure Host OS use S2D + ReFS as in AzureStackHCI?
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