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An update is available for download from Microsoft, designed to resolve two incorrect 32-bit registry entries in the 64-bit flavor of Windows 7. According to information provided by the Redmond company, both Windows 7 RTM and Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) are affected by the problem. At the same time, the softwa... |
28 October 2011
07:21 GMT |
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Early adopters testing Windows 8 Developer Preview can come across issues with cross-forest certificate enrollment requests failing, Microsoft confirmed.
The software giant noted that the problem has been experienced by customers leveraging Active Directory Certificate Services service in Windows Server 2008 R2.
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25 October 2011
05:29 GMT |
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Microsoft is offerings customers an update designed to help them deal with x86-based applications or services being left crippled following the installation of Service Pack 1 (SP1) on computers running the 64-bit (x64) flavor of Windows 7. x64 Windows 7, as well as its 64-bit predecessors, can also run 32-bit applica... |
7 October 2011
09:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has re-released an update for Windows XP SP3 and Windows Server 2003 designed to revoke the trust of all DigiNotar root certificates.
It appears that there were a range of issues with the original KB 2616676, which placed only certain DigiNotar certificates in the Microsoft Untrusted Certificate Store, ... |
20 September 2011
08:22 GMT |
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Microsoft has released to manufacturing a new solution accelerator designed to help companies deal with data compliance across their servers. Windows Server 2008 R2 Data Classification Toolkit RTM can be downloaded free of charge from the software giant, and comes to streamline tasks such as the identification and c... |
13 August 2011
04:09 GMT |
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A fix from Microsoft Support is designed to resolve an issue that causes Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 computers to crash intermittently. The software giant has confirmed the problem, and revealed that affected customers get the following stop error message: "0x0000007E." Not only the plain vanilla, Windows 7... |
11 August 2011
11:01 GMT |
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The currently supported RAM limit is bound to go up with the advent of Windows 8 client and Windows Server 8, if the evolution of previous Windows operating systems is to be taken into account. The next generation of Microsoft’s virtualization technology will also be able to play nice with more memory tha... |
2 August 2011
10:41 GMT |
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Microsoft is making it easy for customers running SAP to also test its latest iterations of Windows Server and SQL Server. The Redmond company released Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 R2 for SAP, a new download offered free of charge, designed to streamline the evaluation process of all the technologies m... |
21 July 2011
07:04 GMT |
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Microsoft has released an update designed to help customers running Windows 7 deal with an issue in which driver refreshes served to the operating system fail to install. The Redmond company confirmed the problem impacts both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, including the platform version with the latest upgrad... |
29 June 2011
06:16 GMT |
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Microsoft released the first upgrade for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 in February 2011, and the company is now making it easier than ever for customers to test Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1. When taking new technologies out for a spin, users always need to dedicate time and effort to setting up the t... |
15 June 2011
11:01 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering for download a free iSCSI Initiator users guide designed for customers running Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The resource is up for grab on the Microsoft Download Center, and it’s essentially a Word 2010 document which provides insight into the technology. According to Microsoft,... |
31 May 2011
11:18 GMT |
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Customers needing to implement a Windows Server 2008 R2 public key infrastructure (PKI) leveraging Suite B compliant cryptographic algorithms can access deployment guidance from Microsoft. The “Suite B PKI in Windows Server 2008” whitepaper is available free of charge via the Microsoft Download Center an... |
8 March 2011
10:31 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering deployment guidance to simplify the work of customers that need to leverage Windows Firewall with Advanced Security in order to secure network communication to a Domain Controller. A Test Lab Guide is now live on the Microsoft Download Center, streamlining the deployment and configuration of Wi... |
28 February 2011
04:52 GMT |
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After launching the first upgrade for Windows 7 on February 22nd, 2011, Microsoft also made available for download the free trial releases of Windows Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1 RTM earlier this week. Customers can now head to the Microsoft Download Center and grab either of the two downloads provided by the ... |
25 February 2011
09:44 GMT |
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IT professionals can now download a free resource from Microsoft designed to help them monitor the health of their DNS infrastructure. The DNS Monitoring Management Pack plays nice with a few releases of Windows Server, including Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003. IT pros will be a... |
23 February 2011
05:44 GMT |
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With the first upgrade for Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft introduced a new feature designed for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure scenarios. Dubbed RemoteFX, the feature is already available to those making the jump to Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1. Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 was released to manufacturing tw... |
21 February 2011
11:31 GMT |
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Windows Server 2008 R2 customers that are leveraging the platform’s hypervisor can grab a collection of updates from Microsoft designed to resolve a range of issues. The software giant made available a Hyper-V update rollup for Windows Server 2008 R2 a while back, and posted the most recent revision at the end... |
16 February 2011
05:36 GMT |
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Microsoft is providing guidance to help customers Demonstrate IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) using machines running Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. And fact is that with the rapid depletion of IPv4 public addresses, now is an excellent opportunity to at least start exploring IPv6, if not already beginning ... |
1 February 2011
07:36 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering an update designed to allow Internet Explorer 9 users running the browser on top of Windows Server 2008 R2 to enjoy additional content on the web, even if it’s coded with H.264 and AAC. The default configuration of Windows Server 2008 R2 doesn’t allow customers to play H.264 video f... |
26 January 2011
14:31 GMT |
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“Windows Setup could not configure Windows on this computer’s hardware,” is an error message that some customers attempting to install Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 received before the deployment failed. Microsoft confirmed the issue and also offered details on the source of the error messag... |
21 January 2011
09:22 GMT |
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Microsoft is adapting the latest releases of Windows to the changes Estonia is going through as part of the process of becoming a member of the European Union and embracing the Euro. In this regard, the Redmond company releases an update designed to change the currency symbol for Windows users in Estonia from the Es... |
27 December 2010
03:56 GMT |
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Microsoft denied that details and Proof of Concept code available in the wild for an IIS FTP 7.5 vulnerability indicate that exploits can lead to remote code execution. Instead, the company explained that even in the eventuality of a successful exploit the most that an attacker can hope to achieve is Denial of Servi... |
23 December 2010
05:34 GMT |
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Microsoft resources are available free of charge for customers looking to make the jump from an existing Windows public key infrastructure (PKI) to Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS). The Redmond company is offering for download Active Directory Certificate Se... |
14 December 2010
04:37 GMT |
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Just as it was the case with Windows Vista (starting with SP1) and Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are advertised by Microsoft as being better together. A new article published recently on TechNet is designed to deliver insight into how Microsoft IT leverages the two platforms in conjunctio... |
29 November 2010
07:58 GMT |
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Microsoft has issued a hotfix designed to resolve some problems related to the backup and restoring of virtual machines in Windows Server 2008 R2. According to the Redmond company, the issues have been dealt with and resolves will be provided with Service Pack 1 (SP1). However, the software giant has recently delive... |
22 November 2010
07:00 GMT |
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Microsoft partnerships with leading members of the open source community should no longer come as surprises, and the latest move from the Redmond company designed to open OpenStack to its hypervisor is illustrative of this. At the end of the past week, Microsoft, Rackspace and Cloud.com announced that they joined fo... |
25 October 2010
05:24 GMT |
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Although it is currently cooking Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1), Microsoft continues to ensure that the latest version of its Windows client continues to evolve even ahead of the upgrade planned for the first half of 2011. Case in point, two application compatibility updates offered by the Redmond company to custome... |
25 August 2010
11:38 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed an issue for customers running Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 in which the platforms can corrupt disk volumes and lead to data loss on computers with HDDs larger than 2 terabytes (TB). According to the Redmond company, in addition to running either Windows 7 or Windows server 2008 R2 on ... |
23 August 2010
10:56 GMT |
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Installing Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 on an offline machine can cause problems for users in terms of poor performance and extremely slow deployment times. Customers that installed Windows 7 or its server counterpart on computers not connected physically to any network, experienced issues with the installatio... |
20 August 2010
12:23 GMT |
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Some media and storage devices can cause crashes of computers running the latest iteration of the Windows client, Microsoft informed. The Redmond company did not offer a specific list of hardware products that have problems playing nice with Windows 7, but the software giant did deliver a few details.Not only Windows... |
16 August 2010
08:36 GMT |
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Microsoft has warned users of the attest iteration of its Windows client and server platforms that they could experience problems related to their machines, when the OS stops responding for no apparent reason. According to the Redmond company, the problems reported by customers do not fit any pattern, and appear to h... |
13 August 2010
10:31 GMT |
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New Service Pack 1 (SP1) Beta downloads are available now for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Launched in the first half of July 2010, Windows 7 SP1 Beta and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Beta have suffered a small refresh at the start of this week. The changes made by Microsoft in no way affect the actual Service... |
3 August 2010
09:55 GMT |
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There’s no denying that Microsoft has labored intensively in order to boost the performance of Windows 7 as much as possible, especially in scenarios related to start-up and shut-down speed. The Redmond company has reportedly already revealed that it will continue to focus on increasing performance for Windows ... |
26 July 2010
04:57 GMT |
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Since Microsoft will not provide a direct upgrade path from Beta to RTM, early adopters already testing Windows 7 Service Pack 1 will need to download the first public development milestone of the upgrade. At the same time, since Windows 7 SP1 is in Beta stage, the service pack could introduce various problems on a m... |
14 July 2010
09:26 GMT |
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Microsoft might appear that is moving extremely fast with the development process of the first service pack for Windows 7, but fact of the matter is that the upgrade will not be offered to the public this year. The Redmond company started sharing details about Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 e... |
13 July 2010
07:29 GMT |
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While proprietary software is characteristically closed-source, there are exceptions to this rule, with select third parties being allowed complete access to products such as Windows and Office. Microsoft has announced that it plans to share the source code of Windows 7 with the Russian federation, also opening up ad... |
8 July 2010
05:54 GMT |
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When deploying the latest Windows client and server releases, customers must make sure that they do so on a hard drive with NTFS cluster sizes no greater than 4096 Bytes (4K). Microsoft informed that otherwise the deployment process would fail. This is valid for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. According to... |
8 July 2010
03:00 GMT |
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Customers running the latest Windows client and server operating systems from Microsoft can download an update designed to advance the backward compatibility feature of the two platforms. the Redmond company is offering the refresh in order to ensure that both Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2 play nice with ol... |
6 July 2010
07:47 GMT |
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While the first Beta for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is getting closer and closer, signaling the proximity of the upgrade, Microsoft continues to advance the operating system via Windows Update. In this regard, the Redmond company has made available for download a hotfix rollup designed to kick up a notch both the... |
6 July 2010
03:08 GMT |
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Major upgrades to Windows client and server platforms introduce extensive changes both on the surface and under-the-hood, down to the very core of the operating systems. It’s no wonder then, that the installation of new service packs can be prevented by programs designed with the specific purpose of safeguardin... |
2 July 2010
03:29 GMT |
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Just days after Microsoft opened up the Beta testing program to early adopters outside of Redmond, the first upgrade for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 has been leaked into the wild and is available for download via various third party sources. Users that wish to jump the gun and grab Windows 7 Service Pack 1 B... |
25 June 2010
05:45 GMT |
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In a move designed to clarify the way that the latest iterations of the Windows client and server platforms deal with older releases of .NET, Microsoft has underlined that it does not support version 1.1 of the .NET Framework on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Microsoft’s David Carrington has talked about... |
23 June 2010
06:10 GMT |
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The first Beta for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 is now approximately a month away from launch. Microsoft has already confirmed officially that it will offer early adopters the chance to download and test drive Windows 7 SP1 Beta and Windows Server 2008 SP1 Beta by the end of July 2010. However, the Redmond-based company ... |
22 June 2010
11:59 GMT |
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Customers running the latest iteration of the Windows client and server platforms have reported issues in which the boot process freezes completely, keeping them from starting up the computer. According to the Redmond company, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 users can get stuck at the “Please wait” s... |
22 June 2010
03:51 GMT |
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The first service pack for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 would reach Beta stage in July 2010, Microsoft confirmed officially earlier this month. However, the Redmond company did not provide a specific availability deadline, leaving early adopters to guess as to when exactly they would be able to get their hand... |
17 June 2010
11:51 GMT |
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Microsoft is getting closer to the release of the public Beta for the first upgrade to the latest iteration of its Windows client and server operating systems. The Redmond-based company did confirm the availability of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (which is the same as Windows Server 2008 SP1) next month, in July 2010. Ho... |
16 June 2010
10:58 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering IT professionals, but not only, the chance to prove just how much of a geek they truly are. The Redmond company has launched a new contest on Facebook, and is inviting users to answer IT-related questions and assess their level of ‘geekiness.’ With the Windows Server IT Geek Quiz bei... |
10 June 2010
07:50 GMT |
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With the various leaked pre-Beta testing releases of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1), users that jumped the gun and installed the unofficial bits struggled to find changes as far as the latest iteration of the Windows client was concerned. However, they had no success in clearly identifying what... |
8 June 2010
02:22 GMT |
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A set of UNIX utilities released by Microsoft is capable of allowing customers to perform password synchronization between Windows and UNIX machines. UNIX Side Components for Identity Management for UNIX – Shipped with Windows Server 2008 R2 is now available via the Microsoft Download Center free of charge. Obv... |
4 June 2010
04:58 GMT |
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In mid-March 2010, Microsoft started the discussion on the first service pack for Windows 7. While announcing that the successor of Windows Vista was poised to get nothing more than a minor upgrade with SP1, the Redmond company did indicate that new features would be introduced, but focused on Windows Server 2008 R2.... |
2 June 2010
10:02 GMT |
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