Everything about Windows Server

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Windows ServerA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Attack in to The Server Message Block (CVE-2020-0796) Vulnerabilities in Windows 10 using Metasploit FrameworkInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Linux For DummiesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Performance evaluation comparison of Snort NIDS under Linux and Windows ServerCited 33 times
5. Go sideways: Internet Explorer 11A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Windows Server 2012 R2A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Performance evaluation comparison of Snort NIDS under Linux and Windows Server

  K. Salah, A. Kahtani · 2010 · Journal of Network and Computer Applications · 33 citations

• Comparative Performance Analysis of MySQL and SQL Server Relational Database Management Systems in Windows Environment

  Amlanjyoti Saikia, Sherin Joy, Dhondup Dolma · 2015 · IJARCCE · 9 citations

• Blue Screen of Death Observed for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 under DDoS Security Attack

  Koushicaa Sundar, Sanjeev Kumar · 2016 · Journal of Information Security · 8 citations

• A style for integrating MS‐Windows software applications to client–server systems using Java technology

  Jim‐Min Lin, Zeng‐Wei Hong, Guo‐Ming Fang · 2006 · Software: Practice and Experience · 6 citations

• Detection of Windows Portable Executable Malware using NLP Techniques and Proxy-server

  Maksym Mishchenko, Mariia Dorosh · 2025 · International Journal of Computing · 4 citations

• Mission-critical server suites for Windows NT

  · 1998 · Computer Fraud & Security · 3 citations

• Windows Server 2003 secure?

  · 2003 · Network Security · 2 citations

• Windows NT as a personal or intranet server

  Larry Press · 1996 · Communications of the ACM · 2 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Attack in to The Server Message Block (CVE-2020-0796) Vulnerabilities in Windows 10 using Metasploit Framework

  M. Faturrohman, Angelita Salsabila, Zulma Mardiah · 2023 · JEEMECS (Journal of Electrical Engineering, Mechatronic and Computer Science) · 4 citations

• Development and Practice of Print-Digital Integrated Textbooks for Double-High-Level Vocational Colleges: A Case of Windows Server Network OS Course

  Rui Wang · 2026 · Occupation and Professional Education · 1 citations

• Windows Server Management

  Meshal Fawaz Aldhamen · 2022 · IJARCCE · 0 citations

• KLASTRY PRACY AWARYJNEJ W ŚRODOWISKU MICROSOFT WINDOWS SERVER 2012

  Dariusz KOWALSKI, Paweł DYMORA, Mirosław MAZUREK · 2022 · Advances in IT and Electrical Engineering · 0 citations

• Performance Comparison of Data Transfer on Windows Server and Linux Server Over IPv6

  Xaythavy Louangvilay · 2026 · Souphanouvong University Journal Multidisciplinary Research and Development · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Linux For DummiesDee-Ann LeBlanc, Melanie Hoag · 1999
• Active DirectoryRobbie Allen, Joe Richards · 2003
• Programming WCF ServicesJuval Löwy, Michael S. Montgomery · 2007
• Active Directory CookbookRobbie Allen, Laura E. Hunter · 2003
• MCSE Training KitMicrosoft Press · 1999
• MCSELance Mortensen, Rick Sawtell · 1997
• The Complete FreeBSDGreg Lehey · 1996
• Windows Server 2008Jonathan Hassell · 2007

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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