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Windows Server 2016 is a server Operating System from Microsoft, released in 2016, and end of life in January 2027.

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Whats new in Windows Server 2016

• Windows Server Containers: Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview now includes containers, which are an isolated, resource-controlled, and portable operating environment. They are an isolated place where an application can run without affecting the rest of the system or the system affecting the application.

• Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview includes new features that enable you to configure AD FS to authenticate users stored in Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directories. For more information, see Active Directory Federation Services Overview [Role/Tech Overview].

• A Hyper-V or Scale-out File Server failover cluster can now easily be upgraded without any downtime or need to build a new cluster with nodes that are running Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview.

• Windows Server Antimalware is installed and enabled by default in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview, but the user interface for Windows Server Antimalware is not installed. However, Windows Server Antimalware will update antimalware definitions and protect the computer without the user interface. If you need the user interface for Windows Server Antimalware, you can install it after the operating system installation by using the Add Roles and Features Wizard.

• For the Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview, the Remote Desktop Services team focused on improvements based on customer requests. We added support for OpenGL and OpenCL applications, and added MultiPoint Services as a new role in Windows Server.

• An update in storage quality of service now enables you to create storage QoS policies on a Scale-Out File Server and assign them to one or more virtual disks on Hyper-V virtual machines. Storage Replica is a new feature that enables synchronous replication between servers for disaster recovery, as well as stretching of a failover cluster for high availability..

• The underlying console host (Conhost.exe) has been updated in several ways, adding new and different functionality to the Windows command prompt, the Windows PowerShell prompt, and any other character-mode applications.

• Windows PowerShell 5.0.

◦ This preview release introduces a new feature that enables Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) for the Windows Server Gateway.

◦ Window DNS Client provides enhanced support for computers with more than one network interface.

◦ The DHCP Server role no longer supports Network Access Protection (NAP).

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Users in Administrators group cannot perform admin tasks with PowerShell remoting only administrator can

I am working on Windows Server 2016 (workgroup) and enabled powershell remoting on it. Only the default administrator account can perform tasks that require administrative permission such as Get-Service Get-DnsServerZone and when I do that I get…
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Is there any hotkey to exit from shadow?

How can I close shadow window without using mouse? Is there any hotkey? My aims is to avoid move user mouse cursor, when I've decided to exit. In Windows 2008 R2 I was able to use Ctrl + * or another hotkey which I choiced when entered to shadow.
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Windows Server 2016 Datacenter VMs running on Hyper-V Server 2016

I misread something or I'm doing a terrible mistake here, hopefully you guys can help me. I have set up a Hyper-V Server 2016 on my physical machine (or bare metal as it's called) which has 1 processor with 4 cores. Afterwards, I connected with…
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Windows Server 2016 adding Storage Pool, "Incorrect Function" from physical disk

I have a server running Server 2016 Core acting as a hypervisor. I am now setting up an Azure Backup Server as a VM on that machine. As per the instructions, the backup server needs a storage pool to use as a staging area. The server previously…
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Server 2016 Scheduled Task fails on specific hardware model with error 0x8007052e

I've got a strange problem relating to basic Windows Scheduled tasks that has baffled me for a few weeks now. These jobs fail to run on some servers, but work on others which are running on different hardware/VMs platforms. Initially this was a…
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Can't RDP to windows 2016 server after reboot, while another computer can

We had launched a windows server 2016 in a VM hosted environment, applied both CIS Benchmark for windows server 2016 level 1 and CIS benchmark for IIS 10 level 1. At this point all of the three computers can RDP to it. But after rebooting the…
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Windows server 2016 {Access Denied} A process has requested access to an object, but has not been granted those access rights

I'm running some selenium c# chrome driver test with the latest version of chrome driver and chrome. On my desktop Windows 10 PC it works fine, however, in production Windows server 2016 I'm getting this error when selenium tries to start a new…
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change time grayed out in windows server 2016

I have Windows server 2016 joined to domain. I want to put back date in the server. But the option for changing date and time is grayed out. It has a message saying "Some settings are hidden or managed by your organisation". When I change the date…
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Why is the DNS Server not updating with dynamic updates from the DHCP server?

I'm using Dock to create Windows containers that are visible to the LAN via a transparent network. The container get's it's IP from our (Windows) DHCP server. Everything works fine except that the DNS Server that serves our network does not update…
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Hyper-V 2016 DDA issue: a VM boot fails when a drive is connected to an opposite NUMA node

Brief description: the host is Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Build 14393 (UEFI) running Hyper-V role. SR-IOV and Intel VT are enabled. 4x Intel® Optane ™ SSD 900P 280GB PCIe NVMe 3.0 drives are connected to the host. To check DDA support, I execute…
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Docker hello-world container won't start on Windows Server 2016 on top of VMWare

I've been trying to get Docker installed and running on a Windows VM to get a better understanding of the runtime for downstream work, and I'm running into the issues starting the hello-world container. Environment: VMWare virtual hardware: 4 GB…
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Where is WinRMRemoteWMIUsers__ local group in Windows Server 2016?

With Windows Server 2012 R2 I can use the group WinRMRemoteWMIUsers__ to enable remote PowerShell execution via -CimSession for non-admin users. However, the group is missing on my Windows Server 2016 machines and I do not see any replacement for it…
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Windows 2016 Server on site domain join with Azure AD

My company has their entire user/group architecture in the cloud using Azure. We recently purchased a Windows 2016 Server machine and I have been asked to set it up so that we can use our Azure accounts. I need to do simple things like file sharing…
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How to configure StarWind Virtual SAN Free

I tested my environment during the 30 day trial and really liked it but now I want to make it work with the free version. I started over and followed these walk-through from Starwind Creating HA Device with StarWind Virtual SAN Free and StarWind…
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Horrible IO speed in Hyper V machine compared to host

I have HP G6 Hyper V host with 6 cores, 24 gb ram, and a p410i raid controller (with 512mb ram and backup battery) running windows 2016 (updated today). When copying data from a SSD (not in raid array) to another P410i Raid 1 managed drive in the…
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