Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Every security team’s nightmare came true over the weekend: a ...

You will fail to connect to your database if the SQL Server service is not running. If you try running the SQL Server service from the Services.msc app, you will ...

Windows Server 2025 is currently open to a Remote Code Execution exploit via the Windows Update Service, and at the time of this writing a fix from Microsoft has yet to fully patch the issue. Reports ...

Microsoft is set to start charging businesses $1.50 per CPU core each month for a new way to install security updates on Windows Server 2025. This change will affect anyone running servers outside of ...

Microsoft recently described some updates to Windows Server, including the introduction of global hotpatching and the planned deprecation of Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). Late last week, ...

Microsoft earlier today released emergency patches for a remote code execution security vulnerability on all supported Windows Server versions. Remote Code execution (RCE) attacks are a fairly ...

Microsoft is changing some of its licensing rules, which are already complex. Here’s what small businesses should know.

Microsoft has announced that a recent security update released in June 2025 is causing trouble for some businesses using Windows Server computers as their main network managers. The problem affects ...

Cutting corners: Microsoft introduced Windows Server Update Services in 2005 as an improvement over previous software update mechanisms, designed for Windows patch downloads and servicing. Two decades ...

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows Server updates from last month's Patch Tuesday break some Microsoft 365 Defender features that use the network data reporting service. Redmond describes Microsoft ...

SQL Server Management Studio or SSMS allows you to connect to the SQL server and execute queries. In this tutorial, we will see how you can install and configure SQL Server Management Studio in ...