Windows Server team Blog

This blogs describes in detail the concepts of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) introduced in What’s New in 2012 R2: Hybrid Networking blog and multi-tenant site-to-site VPN (S2S VPN) blog. In this blog, we’d try to analyze how multi-tenant Border Gateway...(read more)

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Abstract: Following up on our announcement today about new features available with updated Lync 2013 Mobile clients, we are excited to share more details about Lync 2013 Mobile client’s support for certificate authentication and passive authentication...(read more)

​This month the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) is giving some special attention to two malware families - Win32/Foidan and Win32/Shiotob.

This month we release eight bulletins – four Critical and four Important - which address 25* unique CVEs in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, SharePoint, .NET Framework, Office, and Silverlight. For those who need to prioritize their deployment planning, we recommend focusing on MS13-080, MS13-081, and MS13-083.

Back in June of this year, we announced three new bounty programs that will pay researchers for techniques that bypass built-in OS mitigations and protections, for defenses that stop those bypasses and for vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer 11 Preview. This past Friday, we provided some additional details about the results of the IE11 Preview bounty program, which covered the first 30 days of the preview period. Today, we are announcing James Forshaw, a security researcher with Context Information Security, has been awarded the first Mitigation Bypass Bounty, which comes with a prize of $100,000.00. As a reminder, this is an ongoing program, so if you are interested in participating, check out all the details here.

Introduction : Windows Server 2012 introduced IPAM to help Administrators to manage IP address space and DHCP/DNS network services. Prior to Windows Server 2012, customers had little option outside of using disjointed tools, excel spreadsheets and custom...(read more)

  The Microsoft DNS Server provided certain server level statistics which enabled an admin to track the usage pattern or monitor DNS server performance. The statistics provided includes server wide query statistics, zone transfer statistics, packet...(read more)