Windows Server DNS Logging and Diagnostics Feb. 27, 2018, 3:11 p.m.

Enhanced DNS logging and diagnostics in Windows Server 2012 R2 and later includes DNS Audit events and DNS Analytic events. DNS audit logs are enabled by default, and do not significantly affect DNS server performance. DNS analytical logs are not enabled by default, and typically will only affect DNS server performance at very high DNS query rates.

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Per-user services in Windows 10 and Windows Server Oct. 19, 2017, 4:47 p.m.

Per-user services are services that are created when a user signs into Windows or Windows Server and are stopped and deleted when that user signs out. These services run in the security context of the user account - this provides better resource management than the previous approach of running these kinds of services in Explorer, associated with a preconfigured account, or as tasks.

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Windows Server 2016 Update settings Aug. 21, 2017, 11:59 a.m.

In Windows Server 2016 there are no GUI options available to change the update behaviour. In this blog I was outline the different ways to change the Windows Server 2016 Update settings.

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Windows Server 2016 Unattended Setup Reference July 27, 2017, 9:11 a.m.

The topics in this section describe all of the unattended settings that can be set in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016.

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Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 update history May 23, 2017, 12:20 p.m.

List of historical updates for Windows Server 2016. Updates are cumulative and include all previous updates.

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Microsoft Explains Windows Server 2016 Patching May 10, 2017, 4:53 p.m.

For Windows Server 2016 installations, a security update arrives first, followed by a quality update a couple of weeks later. Cumulative updates with new security fixes arrive on the second Tuesday of each month ("patch Tuesday"). Cumulative updates with new quality fixes arrive on the fourth Tuesday of each month. Windows Server 2016 updates first arrive as "optional" updates, but they later become "recommended" updates after two weeks.

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