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Microsoft fixes bug causing Windows Server 2025 boot errors
Microsoft has fixed a known issue causing “boot device inaccessible” errors during startup on some Windows Server 2025 systems using iSCSI. “This is observed on servers operating under NDIS Poll Mode booting from an iSCSI LUN,” the company explained when it acknowledged the bug in late October. “Under such configuration, the server will experience the error during startup, after the installation…
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Are you prepared for the sunsetting of Exchange Server 2016 and 2019? – Computerworld
These “corner cases” typically have unique privacy or regulatory requirements — or it might simply come down to company culture. “That points to something bigger: You’re hosting your own email and managing it a certain way because you’ve always done it that way,” said Kimball. But that’s typically not best for a business’ users and partners, not to mention its…
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What to Look for When Choosing a Plex Server
Summary Plex server CPU choice depends on transcoding needs. A powerful quad-core CPU or better is required to serve multiple transcoded streams at a time. Server storage should be versatile with room for additional drives over time, consider SATA connectors or USB 3.0 ports for external drives. Consider power efficiency, noise level, and form factor when choosing a Plex server…
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Legislators demand truth about OPM email server – Computerworld
In addition, they wrote, “several days prior to the first test, OPM did not have the capability to email a distribution list of this scale. Acquiring such a capability securely and in compliance with federal cybersecurity, privacy, and procurement laws would likely not have been possible in such a short timeframe.” Connelly and Brown added that “compounding our concerns, other…
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US Government sued after mass emails to federal workforce allegedly sent from insecure server – Computerworld
The OPM, of course, has form when it comes to data security. In 2015, it detected a huge data breach affecting 22.1 million employee records, including PII such as social security numbers. That led to Congressional hearings and several government reports that identified a depressing list of underlying causes. But with this history in mind, the idea that an unknown…
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Update Exchange Server or move to the cloud, say experts – Computerworld
In the alert, the company urged admins to take action, saying, “If your servers are so much out of date [pre-March 2023], please update your servers ASAP to secure your email workload and re-enable your Exchange server to check for EEMS rules.” The Microsoft blog is “alarming,” said Andrew Grotto, a research scholar at Stanford University’s Centre of International Security and…
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Microsoft fixes Windows Server 2022 bug breaking device boot
Microsoft has fixed a bug that was causing some Windows Server 2022 systems with two or more NUMA nodes to fail to start up. NUMA (short for non-uniform memory access) is a computer memory architecture in which multiple processors are connected to the same shared memory pool via high-speed interconnections to control performance bottlenecks. This design is extensively used in…
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Microsoft fixes Office 365 apps crashing on Windows Server systems
Microsoft has fixed a known issue that caused Microsoft 365 applications and Classic Outlook to crash on Windows Server 2016 or Windows Server 2019 systems. The root cause is a recent Office update, which integrated the React Native framework to support certain Microsoft 365 apps’ features, while the impact was limited to Microsoft 365 users who updated their classic Outlook and Microsoft 365 apps…
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How to Set Up an SFTP Server on Linux
Any Linux server distribution is a very powerful server that performs above and beyond what your business might need. Whatever task you throw at the server, it will be ready. And, if it isn’t ready out of the box, you can make it so. If you aren’t sure about SFTP, it is the FTP service built into Secure Shell (SSH),…
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How to Use the Apache Web Server to Install and Configure a Website
Every so often, taking a step back and going through the basics is good. It not only helps to ground me as a tech writer, but it helps a lot of people who are just learning the ropes of whatever piece of technology I’m talking about. This time it’s all about the Apache web server, a piece of software that’s…
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