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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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Microsoft IIS HTTP/2 Vulnerabilities Registry Keys Recommended Values

Microsoft "fixed" the HTTP/2 vulnerabilities recently discovered. The updates add the ability to create the registry keys to stop the vulnerabilities, they don't actually fix the vulnerabilities after updating.…
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Windows Server 2016 guests in WSFC cluster randomly quarantined due dropping heartbeat routes

Having 2 guest Windows Server 2016 OSes hosted by Hyper-V Server 2016. The guest OS cluster is very unreliable and one of the nodes constantly gets quarantined (multiple times per day). I also have Windows Server 2012R2 cluster. Those are hosted by…
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hMailServer on Azure VM cannot connect to remote port 25

I'm setting up hMailServer on a new Azure Windows VM. I've successfully sent a mail from my email client, and it arrived in the hMailServer outbound queue, but from there it gets stuck. I ran telnet mail.hmailserver.com 25 and it replies:…
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Hyper-V VM CPU usage monitoring

I'm migrating a number of VM's from one host to another (Win 2012R2 to Win 2016) and am noticing much higher CPU usage on the new host (quite a lot higher). I was seeing this on Task Explorer so decided to use Process Explorer to try and get a…
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ReFS can't be mounted any more

On a Windows Server 2016 the ReFS volume can't be mounted any more. The eventlog shows refs 133 The file system detected a checksum error and was not able to correct it. The name of the file or folder is .... refs 135 Volume is formatted as ReFS…
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Unable to start golang executable as windows service

I want to start a windows service written in golang on my Windows server build 1803. The golang script uses the service wrapper found here: https://github.com/kardianos/service The service is located at C:\Program Files\Monitoring\monitor.exe. After…
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Windows Server 2016 - SSD + HDD in SW RAID1. Drawbacks?

This is a weird question I realize that, but hey. So, I have an SSD in my server. It's a datacenter SSD, I guess (and hope) it will not have any issue for the next few years - as I barely put any load or writes on it. But you know how it is, it's…
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win10 RDP multiple desktops feature

I'm frequently using remote-desktop with a windows 10 server and access the multiple desktops feature (i.e. similar to linux, in windows win+tab, right-hand corner: new desktop). However if I connect to the server from a machine with different…
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SSH GPO Windows 2016

Does a gpo exist for allowing ssh access on windows server 2016.? I have tried google and more specifically, https://gpsearch.azurewebsites.net.
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How to fix alerts in server manager for Tile Data model server service?

I manage a small collection of Windows Server 2016 Standard instances, virtualized on VMware and joined to an Active Directory domain. In Server Manager, I commonly see alerts on these servers for the "tiledatamodelsvc" having a status of…
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What is happening when I SSH into a Windows Server and open Notepad?

In Windows Server 2019, SSH is fully supported by Microsoft. From PuTTY I SSHd into a Windows Server 2019 machine, logged on, and it gave me a cmd. While I did this I also had a RDP session to the Server. Both using the same user. In the SSH…
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Windows Server 2016 Storage Spaces - changing or adding disks

This may be a very basic question, but we are a small company with minimal IT support, so it's left to me to figure this stuff out. We have a server running Windows Server 2016, with one instance, HV1, acting as a hypervisor and two VMs running on…
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IPv6 Link-Local address contains the word 'bad'

Server 2016, this is our SCCM server. I'm attempting to troubleshoot an issue with our SCCM instance and I notice that the IPv6 Link-Local address contains the word 'bad' at the end. I can literally find no mention of this anywhere. Can anyone…
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How to hide specific drives on a server?

I would like to know what's the recommended solution for the following problem. We do not want users to see (or at least not to modify) the drives D and E of a server they have remote access to. However, the tools installed on that server still need…
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I have some users experiencing an issue where an ERP client will disconnect from the ERP server after moving the client to a new Citrix env

This is a pretty odd situation. I'll try to outline the details and make it as clear as possible. We had an ERP client on an old Citrix environment that used Windows Server 2008 R2. I moved the client to Windows Server 2016 and now, some users are…
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