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Windows Server (formerly Windows NT Server) is a group of server operating systems (OS) that has been developed by Microsoft since 1993. The first OS that was released for this platform is Windows NT 3.1 Advanced Server, an edition of Windows NT 3.1. With the release of Windows Server 2003, Microsoft started releasing new versions under the name Windows Server. The latest release of Windows Server is Windows Server 2022, which was released in 2021.

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Microsoft's history of developing operating systems for servers goes back to Windows NT 3.1 Advanced Server. Windows 2000 Server is the first OS to include Active Directory, DNS Server, DHCP Server, and Group Policy.

Windows NT 3.1 Advanced Server was released on July 27, 1993[citation needed] as an edition of Windows NT 3.1, an operating system aimed towards business and server use. As with its Workstation counterpart, Windows NT 3.1 Advanced Server was a 32 bit rewrite of the Windows kernel that retained a similar use interface to Windows 3.1. Unlike the latter, however, Windows NT 3.1 Advanced Server was a complete operating system that did not need to be run from DOS. Windows NT 3.1 Advanced Server, like its Workstation counterpart, featured new features such as multiuser support and preemptive multitasking.[3]In 1994, Microsoft released Windows NT Server 3.5. It introduced TCP/IP and Winsock support integrated into the operating system, alongside the ability to use FTP. It also supported VFAT.[citation needed]

In 1996, Microsoft released Windows NT Server 4.0. It added the new user interface introduced in Windows 95 the previous year. In addition, it dropped support for the PowerPC, Alpha, and MIPS architectures. Microsoft updated Winsock to version 2 and IIS 2.0 and FrontPage are included.[citation needed]

Traditionally, Microsoft supports Windows Server for 10 years, with five years of mainstream support and an additional five years of extended support. These releases also offer a complete desktop experience. Starting with Windows Server 2008, Server Core and Nano Server configurations were made available to reduce the OS footprint.[14][15] Between 2015 and 2021, Microsoft referred to these releases as "long-term support" releases to set them apart from semi-annual releases (see below.)

For sixteen years, Microsoft released a major version of Windows Server every four years, with one minor version released two years after a major release. The minor versions had an "R2" suffix in their names. In October 2018, Microsoft broke this tradition with the release of Windows Server 2019, which should have been "Windows Server 2016 R2". Windows Server 2022 is also a minor upgrade over its predecessor.[16][17]

Following the release of Windows Server 2016, Microsoft attempted to mirror the lifecycle of Windows 10 in the Windows Server family, releasing new versions twice a year which were supported for 18 months. These semi-annual versions were only available as part of Microsoft subscription services, including Software Assurance, Azure Marketplace, and Visual Studio subscriptions,[27] until their discontinuation in July 2021.[28][27]

The semi-annual releases do not include any desktop environments. Instead, they are restricted to the Nano Server configuration installed in a Docker container,[15][27] and the Server Core configuration, licensed only to serve as a container host.[15][27]

The Annual Channel was first announced on July 2023, with the first version being released on September the same year. Unlike the Semi-Annual releases, each Annual Channel release would receive six months of extended support in addition to the 18 months of regular support. Annual releases are made available every twelve months, hence the name. Datacenter is the only edition available.

We have not yet received any information to indicate that these vulnerabilities were used to attack customers. We are working closely with industry partners including chip makers, hardware OEMs, and application vendors to protect customers. To get all available protections, firmware (microcode) and software updates are required. This includes microcode from device OEMs and, in some cases, updates to antivirus software.

On May 14, 2019, Intel published information about a new subclass of speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities known as Microarchitectural Data Sampling and documented in ADV190013 Microarchitectural Data Sampling. They have been assigned the following CVEs:

Microsoft has released updates to help mitigate these vulnerabilities. To get all available protections, firmware (microcode) and software updates are required. This may include microcode from device OEMs. In some cases, installing these updates will have a performance impact. We have also acted to secure our cloud services. We strongly recommend deploying these updates.

On August 6, 2019 Intel released details about a Windows kernel information disclosure vulnerability. This vulnerability is a variant of the Spectre, Variant 1 speculative execution side-channel vulnerability and has been assigned CVE-2019-1125.

On July 9, 2019 we released security updates for the Windows operating system to help mitigate this issue. Please note that we held back documenting this mitigation publicly until the coordinated industry disclosure on Tuesday, August 6, 2019.

On November 12, 2019, Intel published a technical advisory around Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions (Intel TSX) Transaction Asynchronous Abort vulnerability that is assigned CVE-2019-11135. Microsoft has released updates to help mitigate this vulnerability and the OS protections are enabled by default for Windows Server 2019 but disabled by default for Windows Server 2016 and earlier Windows Server OS editions.

Evaluate the risk to your environment based on the information that is provided on Microsoft Security Advisories: ADV180002, ADV180012, ADV190013, and ADV220002, in addition to the information provided in this knowledge base article.

On July 12, 2022, we published CVE-2022-23825 AMD CPU Branch Type Confusion which describes that aliases in the branch predictor may cause certain AMD processors to predict the wrong branch type. This issue might potentially lead to information disclosure.

To help protect against this vulnerability, we recommend installing Windows updates that are dated on or after July 2022 and then take action as required by CVE-2022-23825 and registry key information that is provided in this knowledge base article.

On August 8, 2023, we published CVE-2023-20569 Return Address Predictor (also known as Inception) which describes a new speculative side channel attack that can result in speculative execution at an attacker-controlled address. This issue affects certain AMD processors and might potentially lead to information disclosure.

To help protect against this vulnerability, we recommend installing Windows updates that are dated on or after August 2023 and then take action as required by CVE-2023-20569 and registry key information that is provided in this knowledge base article.

On April 9, 2024 we published CVE-2022-0001 Intel Branch History Injection which describes Branch History Injection (BHI) which is a specific form of intra-mode BTI. This vulnerability occurs when an attacker may manipulate branch history before transitioning from user to supervisor mode (or from VMX non-root/guest to root mode). This manipulation could cause an indirect branch predictor to select a specific predictor entry for an indirect branch, and a disclosure gadget at the predicted target will transiently execute. This may be possible because the relevant branch history may contain branches taken in previous security contexts, and in particular, other predictor modes.

Security advisories (ADVs) and CVEs provide information provide information about the risk that is posed by these vulnerabilities. They also help you identify the vulnerabilities and identify the default state of mitigations for Windows Server systems. The below table summarizes the requirement of CPU microcode and the default status of the mitigations on Windows Server.

Enabling these mitigations may affect performance. The scale of the performance effects depends on multiple factors, such as the specific chipset in your physical host and the workloads that are running. We recommend that you assess the performance effects for your environment and make any necessary adjustments.

Physical hosts or virtual machines that are running untrusted code, such as containers or untrusted extensions for database, untrusted web content, or workloads that run code that is from external sources. These require protection from untrusted process-to-another-process or untrusted-process-to-kernel attacks.

We are providing the following registry information to enable mitigations that are not enabled by default, as documented in Security Advisories (ADVs) and CVEs. Additionally, we provide registry key settings for users who want to disable the mitigations when applicable for Windows clients.

IMPORTANT This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to change the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you change the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you change it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

If this is a Hyper-V host and the firmware updates have been applied: Fully shut down all Virtual Machines. This enables the firmware-related mitigation to be applied on the host before the VMs are started. Therefore, the VMs are also updated when they're restarted.