The Windows File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) is new to the first release candidate of Windows Server 2008 R2, which was made available last month and is due to be released in October. FCI is a ...

I run nightly backups using windows backup utility for my DCs and exchange and when restoring to the cold spare server the restores work fine. However restoring to an ESXi server as a guest OS it ...

Forward-looking: Windows 7 will exit extended support very soon, but "micropatches" offered by 0patch are ready to take Microsoft's place in keeping the old operating systems safe and sound against ...

An unpatched local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability affecting all Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 devices received a free and temporary fix today through the 0patch platform. The zero-day bug ...

Microsoft is timing the release of its first service pack for Windows Server 2008 R2 to coincide with the first service pack for Windows 7. Beta versions of both packs will be available by the end of ...

Microsoft has partially fixed a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability impacting all Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 devices. This LPE vulnerability (not yet officially tracked using a CVE ID) ...

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Microsoft made it official today: both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have been released to manufacturing, following through on the company’s promise to “RTM” Windows 7 in the second half of ...

Microsoft sends first service pack for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to original equipment manufacturers. Consumers get it later this month. Josh Lowensohn Former Senior Writer Josh Lowensohn ...

We use a software product that is licensed off of the windows SID. I'm restaging a 2003 box with windows 2008 R2 on it, but I can't find a way to force a SID to a specific value in Windows 2008 R2.