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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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Should I migrate to DFSR BEFORE promoting my domain to Server 2016?

I'm getting ready to promote our current domain from a Server 2008 R2 server to Server 2016. All dcdiag checks and replmon checks are good and looks to be ready. However I've been doing reading on DFSR and realized we are still on FRS. My question…
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Windows Server 2016 Essentials and Virtualization rights

We recently bought a Dell PowerEdge T130 with Windows Server 2016 Essentials. According to Microsoft (1) (2) I knew it is possible, since Windows Server 2012R2, to install Essentials as a virtual instance hosted on a physical instance of Essentials…
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Is it possible to use several disks in the pool and some disks as local disks?

I have 4-node S2D cluster with 12 disks each on Windows Server 2016 Insider Preview 16257. I applied this settings by Cosmos Darwin to prevent adding new disks to the pool automatically Is there any way to prevent Storage Spaces Direct from…
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Server 2016 Not Rebooting at Scheduled TIme

My Organization has a maintenance window between 4-8am every Sunday Morning. We have an OU structure setup to spread our production servers out for reboot during this scheduled time (example Reboot4-5, Reboot5-6, Reboot6-7, etc). We have GPOs on…
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Windows DHCP Server not responding to relay requests

I have a Windows Server 2016 (Datacenter Core) running DHCP server role which is not responding to DHCP requests which come from a DHCP relay but is responding to DHCP requests on the local network. The server running the DHCP role has an ip address…
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windows-server-2016 task scheduler doesn't save domain user to run as properly

The Task Scheduler(TS) isn't saving domain information for run task as user. Steps to replicate: In General->Security Options it shows which user the task will run as with the button "Change User or Group" beside it. The TS lets me change the user…
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.NET Core console app fails from task scheduler with 0xC0000005

I have written a simple .NET Core console app (which writes some log files, hits a database and sends some emails). Triggering the task by double-clicking on the .exe within Windows works fine. However when attempting to trigger the task through…
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Newly Promoted Domain Controller does not create and replicate SYSVOL and NETLOGON folders

There seems to be something wrong with my primary domain controller. No matter what I do, I cannot get other domain controllers to create sysvol and netlogon folders when they've been promoted. my dcdiag shows these errors on my new domain…
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DNSSEC broken in Windows 2016's DNS server?

I'm currently in the process of migrating a DNS server from Windows 2012 R2 to Windows 2016. However, I have run into an issue with DNSSEC. So far I have just moved one domain, an unused test domain, from the Win2012 server to the Win2016 server,…
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Failover Cluster file server performance issue with Windows Server 2016

I've run into an interesting file server transfer speed performance issue with a failover cluster I recently configured in Server 2016. The specific issue is that when I access the file share from the clustered storage path (e.g. \\store01\share01)…
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Connecting Freenas to Windows Server 2016 with MPIO

We recently had a Problem with the Raid Card in our Windows Server. We used this excuse to enlarge our storage Pool and implement a few other upgrades. The current Setup is: FreeNAS Server The Server used is a Dell Poweredge R710 with dual Quad…
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How to enable PIN login for domain-joined Windows 10 Pro via Group Policy

First I tried enabling PIN using Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/System/Logon/Turn on convenience PIN sign-in. This did allow me to set a PIN on the client PC (previously this option was greyed out). But after logging off, and even…
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Backing up VHD Sets

I've recently created a guest fileserver cluster using VHD Sets. Everything is working fine except i can't do backup on the fileservers. Windows VSS tells me it cannot create snapshots of VMs with shared drives attached to it, even though one of the…
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How can I install Windows Server 2016 Standard in English?

Is there a way to force installation of Windows Server 2016 Standard in English? The only choice in my install iso is German and I cannot choose English which I find very strange. Changing the system language to English via downloading the language…
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Putting a backup AD domain controller as a VM on a workstation

As a small shop (~10 PCs), we have only one physical server machine. This physical server machine runs the following two virtual machines: one AD domain controller and one "production server" (file server, database server, etc.). Now, all best…
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