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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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Storage Spaces Direct very low available space

I'm testing S2D. I have created cluster from 2 VMs and call PowerShell Enable-ClusterStorageSpacesDirect -SkipEligibilityChecks -Confirm -CacheState Disabled List of storage Type Node Size Used Percent ---- ---- ---- ---- ------- HDD 1 21GB …
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How to install Application Server role on Windows Server 2016

I'm updating requirements for a software product for Windows Server 2016. In 2012 R2 I always used to install the "Application Server" role. This seems to have vanished in 2016. I've been searching TechNet and Microsoft forums for an answer, but…
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Only getting 100 Mbit in Hyper V Guest from 1 Gigabit network connection

I have a HP Proliant ML350 G6 with two integrated Broadcom NetXTreme Gigabit Ethernet ports running Windows server 2016, updated as of today. If I share a folder on my hyper v host I can add and remove files at around 90MB/s through the network…
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530 Valid hostname is expected when setting up IIS 10 for multiple sites

I've configured IIS to have multiple FTP sites, using the instructions found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/publish/using-the-ftp-service/using-ftp-virtual-host-names-in-iis-7 See the configuration I ended up with below. In IIS I've…
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Is it possible to add Active Directory to a windows container?

At my company we're currently developing a product which will eventually support authentication via OpenLDAP and Active Directory. We have configured a Windows Server 2016 and would like to create an isolated environment via windows containers to…
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How do I install Powershell's IISAdministration Module

Windows Server 2016 comes with a shiny new module named IISAdministration. But when I try to load the module I get the error that 'no valid module file was found'. It is not on the powershell gallery and google does not find a download on the…
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The setup of S2D that delivers up to 2M IOPS to SQL FCI

We are about to deploy shared storage researching for ultra-fast storage to implement Microsoft SQL Server Failover Cluster (FCI). So far the project goes, we would to start with 500K IOPS for 8k blocks about 70r/30w pattern. Also we would like to…
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Scale-Out File Server with Storage Spaces Direct

guys! After a recent upgrade of our infrastructure, I've got a bunch of decommissioned hardware that I would like to use for storage purposes along with trying out some new stuff. So, I have 4 x DELL R630 servers that have 6 x HDD and 2 x SSDs…
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NTFS Compression with Deduplication?

I have installed the Data Deduplication role on Windows Server 2016. Per Microsoft, it's using NTFS compression to help save space: Data deduplication stores more data in less physical space. It achieves greater storage efficiency than was possible…
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Disable Automatic Maintenance Windows Server 2016

When using Server 2012 I disabled the (evil) Automatic Maintenance task using the following commands (originally found here): psexec \\SERVERNAME -s schtasks /change /tn "\Microsoft\Windows\TaskScheduler\Maintenance Configurator" /DISABLE psexec -s…
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Is it possible to ask ReFS to use hardware RAID6 for parity calculations?

Does ReFS use FPGA-based XOR engines for RAID parity calculations? If not, is it possible to get it to use such tech?
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Is it possible to get a windows-version from a powershell command on Windows Server 2016 Nano?

I'm using the latest preview of Windows Server 2016 nano. Using a remote powershell session, I connect to the remote system via Enter-PSSession, and then I tried to use the most common techniques to check Windows versions, because the full .Net…
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experience with using SS on Windows 2016 MSCS VMware Virtual machines

After reading multiple documentations around setting up a MS 2016 Fail-over Cluster with Storage Spaces on VMware ESX it seems that this configuration is not supported but it only says server 2012 and above. I am looking for people's advice with…
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Windows 2016 updates and Active Hours

With the goal of putting it in more production boxes, I'm testing Windows 2016 update behavior. I've run sconfig to select "DownloadOnly" in "Windows Update Setting" and I configured "Active Hours" from 07:00 to 19:00. It is my understandig that…
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IIS 10 - Deny all IP restriction

I come from the Windows 2003 Server world and it's IIS version is much different then IIS 10 on Windows 2016 Server. The 2003 server appears to have denied all IP addresses by default. How to I deny all IP's in IIS 10. I have a few IP ranges I would…
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