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WPC 2024

Reading Time: 2 minutesWPC è l’evento annuale più importante nel panorama ICT a cui partecipano i personaggi più influenti e di rilievo di Microsoft e del settore IT. WPC è l’occasione per creare nuove connessioni e fare rete con MVP, professionisti, speaker con cui condividere best practice, informazioni o semplici curiosità.

Reading Time: 2 minutesMicrosoft Windows Server 2025 has been released in GA on November 1st 2024, and now there is one important 3rd party compatibility announce: Windows Server 2025 is certified on VMware platforms! Starting with November 16, Windows Server 2025 is officially certified on VMware vSphere 7.0 U3, 8.0, 8.0 U1, 8.0 U2, and 8.0 U3. These versions have been tested and validated to provide a stable, high-performance platform for running Windows Server 2025 as a guest operating system on virtual machines. For supported release details, please refer to the Broadcom Compatibility Guide.

Reading Time: 2 minutes​Microsoft has announced the generall availability (GA) of Windows Server 2025, the latest version of its server operating system, starting Friday, November 1st. Windows Server 2025 is available through two primary release channels: the Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) with Windows Server 2025 and the Annual Channel (AC) linked to Windows Server, version 23H2.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUsually, on one desktop machine you can only use ONE desktop hypervisor solution, because if you try to install more than once, you may have issues (for example in the virtual switch management). In the past, expecially was not possible have both VMware Workstation and Microsoft Hyper-V on the same machine, because Hyper-V works at ring -1 and this makes difficult to let Workstation runs on top.

Reading Time: 2 minutesCome ogni prodotto software, anche Windows 10 ha un ciclo di vita e una data prevista di EOF (end of live). Cosa succende al termine del ciclo di vita? Che ovviamente non vi saranno più aggiornamenti (salvo rare eccezioni) e questo può diventare un grave problema di sicurezza! Negli scorsi mesi, in molti avranno visto un messaggio di questo tipo:

Reading Time: 4 minutesIPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) is a widely used protocol for network communication and is a core component of the TCP/IP stack. But it has some limits, one is the limit in terms of available addresses, expecially if we are talking about public IP. IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) was design to resolve all the limitation of IPv4. IPv6 is designated by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as the successor to IPv4 providing the following benefits:

Reading Time: 2 minutesMicrosoft warned customers to patch a critical TCP/IP remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability that impacts all Windows systems (client and server) using IPv6 stack. The vulnerability is identified as CVE-2024-38063 and it’s a 9.8-out-of-10 on the CVSS severity scale. Note that, on Windows systems the IPv6 is enabled by default and, in the past, Microsoft itself has not recommend disabling IPV6: ” We do not recommend that you disable IPv6 or its components, or some Windows components may not function.” (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/929852)

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