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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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Howto verify if Storage Spaces uses Journal disks

I try to add three SSDs as journal disks to an existing Storage Space (with powershell commands Add-PhysicalDisk and Set-PhysicalDisk -usage journal). However strangely this increased the size of the storage pool (get-storagepool | select size). How…
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Upgrading Windows Server 2008 R2 to 2016 sequentially

Our goal is to upgrade a machine from Windows Server (WS) 2008 R2 to WS 2016. For now, we don't want to perform a clean-install to the server OS. But according to Microsoft documentation, there is no direct path to upgrade from WS 2008 R2 to WS 2016…
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Windows Hyper-V ran out of memory

I have a Windows 2016 Hyper-V machine that holds a Linux VM. The link VM is running at 12GB RAM and I want to increase that. When I try to increase it is says it ran out of memory. There is 12 GB Free on server All windows updates are installed I…
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Restrict Internet access to only a web browser in active directory

I have a Small Office Network Connected to a Server running windows server 2016. The Server functions as DNS, DHCP Server, Domain Controller and Gateway( Two NICS, One lan connection & one WAN connection) I want to restrict Internet Access of…
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Storage Spaces: Optimize-Volume taking days

I'm on Windows Server 2016 Datacenter with Storage Space volumes. I deleted a large 3TB file on my 12TB thinly provisioned volume. This space hasn't been reclaimed. So I decided I would need to run Optimize-Volume. So I ran Optimize-Volume…
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Storage Spaces Direct detect and change Resiliency Mode

I've 2 node cluster where I enabled S2D. Later I added the 3rd node. Now I would like to check if resiliency mode changed to three-way mirror automatically. If not, I would like to change it manually. The only script known to me doesn't tell me…
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Error when installing NFS service on Windows 2016

When I try to install the NFS service on windows 2016 it fail. In the system event log I've got 3 errors: - The Server for NFS Open RPC (ONCRPC) Portmapper service failed to start due to the following error: A device attached to the system is not…
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AWS: how to install AWS-issued SSL certificate on my Windows Server EC2?

I have a EC2 instance that is a Window Server 2016 running an ASP.NET website. I got an AWS-issued SSL certificate. How do I install this certificate on this EC2 instance? It is Windows environment so I need a PFX or PEM file. How do I get this file…
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Storage Spaces Direct HDD MediaType is unspecified

I have two HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 servers with Windows Server 2016 on which a SQL Server 2016 is to be installed in the failover cluster with Storage Spaces Direct. When I try to activat S2D via PowerShell I get the error: WARNING: 2017/07 / 13-10:…
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VMM2016 and S2D doesn't allow to create HA VM

I have deployed 2 nodes Failover Cluster with Hyper-V 2016 on top of a hyperconverged setup using S2D. The cluster managed by VMM 2016. VMM 2016 has latest UR3, Win 2016 nodes have latest Windows updates I have two issues: 1) I can't create highly…
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Supplier proposes upgrade to 2016, we're running 2008r2, should we do it?

To be clear: I'm not asking for opinions, rather I'm looking for data/facts/insights that will help me get closer to forming my own opinion. Context We're about to upgrade our servers (as they're old), and our current supplier is proposing to put…
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windows server 2016 The system failed to register host (A or AAAA) resource records (RRs) for network adapter

hi i have recently started using windows server 2016. Every 15 minutes the server seems to reboot with windows kernel power critical id 41 error. Just before the system reboots I receive a Microsoft-Windows-DNS client Events Error The system failed…
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ReFS and Storage Spaces in virtual environment - ESXi / VMware vSphere

As Microsoft's ReFS draw my attention because of data corruption occurred to my storage I'm wondering if it's recommend to use ReFS in a virtualized environment. To be precise my stack would be a bunch of physical discs on a RAID Controller on a…
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Promote Windows Server 2016 to domain controller in Server 2008 R2 Active Directory

I spent over five hours now to solve a failure during the process of Promoting a freshly installed Windows Server 2016 Standard-Server to a domain controller in our Server 2008 R2 level network. Here is the problem: If I try to add the 2016 Server…
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Nano Server attached to SAN doesn't see new files

I have recently provisioned two servers that are attached to a Lenovo S3200 with fibre channel. These are the only two servers attached. The servers are running Windows 2016 Nano, and I have installed MPIO and claimed the FC paths. And I created an…
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