🟡 Medium ⏱ 5–30 min Last verified: 22 March 2025 Affected versions: Windows Server 2025 📖 ~2 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution — Primary Fix Solution — Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors […]
How to Configure Windows Diagnostics and Memory Dump on Windows Server 2025 When Windows Server 2025 crashes with a blue screen (bugcheck), the operating system has only seconds to write diagnostic data before the machine restarts. Whether that data captures everything needed for root cause analysis — or nothing useful at all — depends entirely […]
🔴 Critical ⏱ 15–90 min Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Windows Server 2016 📖 ~4 min read • Source: Microsoft KB5052105 • MSRC update-guide entry Related CVEs: CVE-2025-21376 CVE-2025-21351 CVE-2025-21352 CVE-2025-21368 CVE-2025-21369 CVE-2025-21375 CVE-2025-21391 CVE-2025-21418 +12 more Affected components: Windows Server 2016 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root […]
🔴 Critical ⏱ 15–90 min Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Windows Server 2016 📖 ~4 min read • Source: Microsoft KB5048800 • MSRC update-guide entry Related CVEs: CVE-2024-49105 CVE-2024-49106 CVE-2024-49108 CVE-2024-49115 CVE-2024-49122 CVE-2024-49124 CVE-2024-49126 CVE-2024-49112 +12 more Affected components: Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation) Table of contents Symptom […]
🔴 Critical ⏱ 15–90 min Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Windows Server 2016 📖 ~4 min read • Source: Microsoft KB5065509 • MSRC update-guide entry Related CVEs: CVE-2025-54918 CVE-2025-55226 CVE-2025-53799 CVE-2025-53797 CVE-2025-53798 CVE-2025-54095 CVE-2025-54096 CVE-2025-54097 +12 more Affected components: Windows Server 2016 Microsoft summary: Improper authentication in Windows NTLM allows an authorized […]
How to Configure TLS/SSL for Remote Desktop Protocol on Windows Server 2025 Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is one of the most widely used remote access tools in Windows Server environments, and it is also one of the most frequently targeted services by attackers. Exposed RDP endpoints attract brute-force attacks, credential stuffing campaigns, and exploitation of […]
How to Configure DNS Forwarders and Conditional Forwarding on Windows Server 2025 DNS forwarding is a foundational component of enterprise name resolution strategy. Rather than allowing every DNS server in your organization to perform its own recursive lookups against the root hints on the internet, you configure forwarders to direct unresolved queries to designated upstream […]
🔴 Critical ⏱ 15–90 min Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Windows Server 2019 📖 ~4 min read • Source: Microsoft KB5062560 • MSRC update-guide entry Related CVEs: CVE-2024-36357 CVE-2024-36350 CVE-2025-47980 CVE-2025-47981 CVE-2025-48822 CVE-2025-55230 CVE-2025-49757 CVE-2025-53789 +12 more Affected components: Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation) Microsoft summary: The vulnerability assigned to this […]
🔴 Critical ⏱ 15–90 min Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Windows Server 2016 📖 ~4 min read • Source: Microsoft KB5053636 • MSRC update-guide entry Related CVEs: CVE-2025-24035 CVE-2025-24045 CVE-2025-24064 CVE-2025-26645 CVE-2024-9157 CVE-2025-24044 CVE-2025-24987 CVE-2025-24988 +12 more Affected components: Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation) Microsoft summary: Sensitive data […]
How to Add and Remove Windows Server Roles and Features with PowerShell Windows Server 2025 ships as a minimal platform and relies on you to install only the roles and features your workload requires. This principle of minimal footprint reduces the attack surface, lowers memory consumption, and keeps the server easier to maintain. While Server […]
