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964:. The new licensing structure that has been adopted by Windows Server 2016 has also moved away from the Windows Server 2012/2012R2 CPU socket licensing model in that now the amount of cores covered under one license is limited. Windows Server 2016 Standard and Datacenter core licensing now covers a minimum of 8 core licenses for each physical processor and a minimum of 16 core licenses for each server. Core licenses are sold in packs of two with Standard Edition providing the familiar rights to run 2 virtualized OS environments. If the server goes over 16 core licenses for a 2 processor server additional licenses will now be required with Windows Server 2016. 937:) branded as "Windows Server Technical Preview" was released on October 1, 2014; the technical preview builds are aimed toward enterprise users. The first Technical Preview was first set to expire on April 15, 2015 but Microsoft later released a tool to extend the expiry date, to last until the second tech preview of the OS in May 2015. The second beta version, "Technical Preview 2", was released on May 4, 2015. Third preview version, "Technical Preview 3" was released on August 19, 2015. "Technical Preview 4" was released on November 19, 2015. "Technical Preview 5" was released on April 27, 2016. 41: 3642: 3632: 3622: 407: 50: 1041:
Installation options: The Server installation option had been renamed to “Server with Desktop Experience” having the shell and Desktop Experience installed by default. Due to the structural changes required to deliver the Desktop Experience on Server, it is no longer possible to convert from Server
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New "Encryption Supported" mode that offers more protections than for an ordinary virtual machine, but less than "Shielded" mode, while still supporting vTPM, disk encryption, Live Migration traffic encryption, and other features, including direct fabric administration conveniences such as virtual
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Nano Server: an updated module for building Nano Server images, including more separation of physical host and guest virtual machine functionality as well as support for different Windows Server editions. Improvements to the Recovery Console, including separation of inbound and outbound firewall
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cluster update: Unlike upgrading clusters from Windows 2008 R2 to 2012 level, Windows Server 2016 cluster nodes can be added to a Hyper-V Cluster with nodes running Windows Server 2012 R2. The cluster continues to function at a Windows Server 2012 R2 feature level until all of the nodes in the
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and Remote Server Management Tools (a collection of web-based GUI and command line tools). However, in Technical Preview 5, Microsoft has re-added the ability to administer Nano Server locally through PowerShell. According to Microsoft engineer Jeffrey Snover, Nano Server has 93% lower
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Management: ability to run PowerShell.exe locally on Nano Server (no longer remote only), new Local Users & Groups cmdlets to replace the GUI, added PowerShell debugging support, and added support in Nano Server for security logging & transcription and JEA (Just Enough
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Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 2 was made available on May 4, 2015. Its version number was 10.0.10074. (A similar jump in the most significant part of the version number from 6 to 10 is seen in Windows 10.) Highlights of this version include:
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The fourth technical preview of the operating system was made available on November 19, 2015, one year and one month after the initial technical preview. Its version number was 10.0.10586, based on Windows 10 version 1511. Its highlights include:
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Networking: traffic to new or existing virtual appliances can now be both mirrored and routed. With a distributed firewall and Network security groups, this enables dynamically segmented and secure workloads in a manner similar to
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Security: Host Guardian Service, helping to keep trust and isolation boundary between the cloud infrastructure and guest OS layers; Just Enough Administration, restricting users to perform only specific
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Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview, released on October 1, 2014, was the first beta version of the operating system made publicly available. Its version number was 6.4.9841.
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Windows Server 2016 was officially released at Microsoft's Ignite Conference on September 26, 2016. Unlike its predecessor, Windows Server 2016 is licensed by the number of
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Other: Conditional access control in AD FS; application authentication support for OpenID Connect and OAuth; full OpenGL support with RDS for VDI; Server-side support for
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Microsoft announced a new installation option, Nano Server, which offers a minimal-footprint headless version of Windows Server. It excludes the graphical user interface,
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New, more efficient binary virtual machine configuration format (.VMCX extension for virtual machine configuration data and the .VMRS extension for runtime state data)
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The third technical preview of Windows Server 2016 was made available on August 19, 2015. Its version number was 10.0.10514. Highlights of this version include:
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Storage Services: Central Storage QoS Policies; Storage Replicas (storage-agnostic, block-level, volume-based, synchronous and asynchronous replication using
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customers who have an active Windows Server 2016 license and has the same system requirements. This is the first Windows Server product to fall under the
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Our Server Journey – video session describing the path that Windows Server has taken from its creation to the current day and where it is going from here
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Network Controller: A new server role to configure, manage, monitor, and troubleshoot virtual and physical network devices and services in the datacentre
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application publishing, wildcard domain publishing of applications, HTTP to HTTPS redirection, Propagation of client IP address to backend applications
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The last technical preview of Windows Server 2016 was made available on April 27, 2016. Its version number was 10.0.14300. Its highlights include:
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Management: PowerShell Desired State Configuration; PowerShell Package Manager; Windows Management Framework 5.0 April Preview and DSC Resource Kit
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Remote Desktop Services: a highly available RDS deployment can leverage Azure SQL Database for the RD Connection Brokers in high availability mode
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Full support for converting existing non-shielded Generation 2 virtual machines to shielded virtual machines, including automated disk encryption
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Storage quality of service (QoS) to centrally monitor end-to-end storage performance and create policies using Hyper-V and Scale-Out File Servers
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Installation options: Minimal Server Interface was made default and renamed the Server installation option to “Server with local admin tools”.
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Storage: Virtual Machine Storage Path resiliency; Storage Spaces Direct to aggregate Storage Spaces across multiple servers; Storage Replica
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Hot add and remove for network adapters (for generation 2 virtual machines) and memory (for generation 1 and generation 2 virtual machines)
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Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS): authentication of users stored in Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directories
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PluralSight: Windows Server vNext First Look – An introduction to the new features of the Windows Server vNext operating system
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is formed for detecting transitory loss of connectivity to VM storage. VMs will be paused until connectivity is re-established.
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Windows Server 2016 was released to manufacturing on September 26, 2016, bearing the version number of 10.0.14393 (same as
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Hyper-V: hot add and remove memory and NIC; resilient virtual machines to keep running even when their cluster fabric fails
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Container support adds performance improvements, simplified network management, and support for Windows containers on
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encapsulation support; Microsoft Software Load Balancer interoperability; better IEEE Ethernet standard compliance.
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Starting with the new feature release of Windows Server version 1709, Nano Server can only be installed inside a
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teams together. Previously, the Server team was more closely aligned with the Windows client team. The
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with Desktop Experience to Server Core or to convert Server Core up to Server with Desktop Experience.
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was deprecated in Windows Server 2012 R2, in Windows Server 2016 the DHCP role no longer supports NAP
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Windows Server 2016 Insider Preview Build 16237 was released to Windows Insiders on July 13, 2017.
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size, 92% fewer critical security advisories, and 80% fewer reboots than Windows Server.
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In March 2017, Microsoft demonstrated an internal version of Server 2016 running on the
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Mostly general refinements. Greater time accuracy in both physical and virtual machines
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Hyper-V Containers encapsulates each container in a light weight virtual machine.
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cluster have been upgraded and the cluster functional level has been upgraded.
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1.1, performance and stability improvements; MultiPoint Services role (see
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Networking: Converged NIC across tenant and RDMA traffic; PacketDirect on
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Hyper-V Manager: Alternate credentials support, down-level management,
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Mathers, Bill; Poggemeyer, Liza; Tobin, John (September 8, 2017).
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DNS client: Service binding – enhanced support for computers with
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architecture. It was reported that Microsoft was working with
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Shielded virtual machines are compatible with Hyper-V Replica
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rules as well as the ability to repair configuration of WinRM
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Windows Server 2016 has a variety of new features, including
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Microsoft Windows Nano Server, the future of Windows Server?
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Snover, Jeffrey; Mason, Andrew; Back, Alan (April 8, 2015).
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Integration services for Windows guests distributed through
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Michael Pietroforte: Nano Server – Goodbye Windows Server?
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Screenshot of Windows Server 2016 with Desktop Experience
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family of operating systems. It was developed alongside
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Microsoft added the following final touches: 2334: 1979: 1174: 195:1607 (10.0.14393.7336) (September 10, 2024 2515: 2513: 2511: 2509: 2507: 2505: 2503: 2444: 2442: 1276:"Announcing the launch of Windows Server 2016" 2863: 2602: 2600: 956:—a change that has similarly been adopted by 646:Web Application Proxy: Preauthentication for 523: 2544: 2542: 2034: 374:Mainstream support ended on January 11, 2022 343:(2018) / Windows Server, version 1709 (2017) 2500: 2439: 1197:"Semi-Annual Channel" (SAC) release cadence 1128: 825:. 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