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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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What exactly is the "Data Sharing service" in Windows Server 2016?

Windows Server 2016 (and Windows 10) contain the mysterious "Data Sharing service", which happens to crash every now and then, polluting our service logs. Apparently, even Microsoft employees don't know what it is and just quote the service…
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Storage Spaces Direct - New Volume on Virtual Disk

Is it possible to add a new volume to an existing virtual disk? The reason behind this is, that i would like to set certain values like interleave for the virtual disk. But right now you can either create a new virtual disk but can't add a volume to…
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On EC2 Windows Server 2016, automatically mount instance storage when restarting the instance

I have an AWS EC2 instance based on an Amazon-provided AMI for Microsoft Windows Server 2016. I want to use the ephemeral Instance Storage. When I Start the instance, I can login and use the Window's Disk Management tool to mount my Instance Storage…
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Is it possible to downgrade Windows Server 2016 Datacenter to Standard?

Is it possible to downgrade a Windows Server 2016 Datacenter instance to Windows Server 2016 Standard? Edit: This was marked as a "licensing question." In order to keep the question up, I have to make an edit explaining why it's not. My question…
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Storage Spaces Direct (s2d) wrong BusType with raid controller in HBA mode

i'm planning a s2d cluster with 4 nodes, each connected to 8 disks (2ssd, 6hdd) via a LSI/Avago 3108 controller. The controller is correctly working in HBA mode and the drives are visible through the Get-PhysicalAdapter cmdlet in PS on the…
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Upgrade 2012R2 Core to 2016 Core blank window

Hypervisor: VMWare ESXI 6 update 2 Original guest: Windows Server 2012 R2 Core New: Windows Server 2016 Loaded the ISO in the guest and typed the following command: d:\ setup.exe /auto upgrade /compat ignorewarning /DynamicUpdate enable Notice use…
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LongPathsEnabled Setting ignored on Windows Server 2016

I need to be able to create a path structure that is longer than 260 characters on a Windows Server 2016 system. After thoroughly reading through various sources, I understand that Windows Server 2016, version 1607 should support long paths. I…
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Remove-Physical Disk don't progress on my Windows 2016 cluster

I have 2 Windows2016 servers in a cluster shared volume One of my 18 (2*9) hard disk reports a failure so I want to remove from my S2D pool This disk is marked as "retired" $disk=Get-PhysicalDisk -SerialNumber 8HG42ZHH PS C:\Windows\system32>…
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Removing healthy drives from a Storage Pool without causing data loss

Not that long ago, I found myself with a Windows 2016 server that had run out of space in a virtual disk on its main storage pool. I put two new drives in and started the process of adding to the storage pool so we could expand the virtual disk. As…
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.NET Framework 4.7.2 stuck on installation and roll back on Windows Server 2016

When trying to install the .NET Framework version 4.7.2, it gets stuck on the installation and freezes here: I waited for over an hour for the .NET Framework to install, and it stayed at the same spot. I attempted to cancel the installation, and…
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Moving domain controller to private AWS subnet. It'll have a new IP address. How will member servers find it?

I have five AWS servers on a public subnet of a single VPC, each with its own elastic IP address. The subnet is 10.0.0.0/24. One server is a Win2016 domain controller. The remaining four are Win2016 members of that domain. I'd like to reorganize…
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Can't delete OU from AD, IsCriticalSystemObject attribute TRUE - cannot change

I recently took over a contract for a customer where the previous IT apparently did a half-ass job of migrating from SBS Server to Server 2016. In AD there's an OU called MyBusiness which has two subfolders: SBSComputers and SBSUsers. I've moved…
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What are sockets with bound state on 0.0.0.0

I know a listening socket on 0.0.0.0 is listening on all IPv4 interfaces. But we also see a lot of 'bound' stockets on 0.0.0.0, if we check with Get-NetTCPConnection in powershell. All on high port numbers (63000+) with a both local and…
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Unexpected Windows Server 2016 Shutdown: winlogon, NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM, 0x500ff

We have a fleet of AWS EC2 instances running Windows Server. Since moving from Windows Server 2012r2 to 2016, we've encountered an issue where a server is shut down for unknown reasons. After an exhaustive inspection of event logs, the only…
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Cannot connect to Remote Desktop with Windows Hello PIN

When I try to connect to an intranet machine, it only works if I specify domain credentials. When I use Windows Hello pin, it fails with this message: An authentication error has occurred (Code: 0x8007013d) Remote computer:…
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