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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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AWS Instance not access metadata server with IP

my amazon VM instance (type c4.large, Windows Server 2016 Data Center) is on eu-central-1. I need to get metadata (primarily to check if my software is running on an AWS instance) and I try to fetch this from http://169.254.169.254. Neither wget,…
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Windows 2016 RRAS installation initialization hangs

Windows 2016 Server (Fully SPd) Roles installed Active Directory, IIS, DNS Also installed Exchange 2013 CU4 Up to that point the server seemed to be running fine. Added the role Remote Access, which installs fine Post Install wizard runs and select…
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Microsoft iSCSI target server 2016 failover cluster doesn't work in Server Manager after transfering roles

I have a pair of Server 2016 VMs in a failover cluster running the File Server and iSCSI Target Server roles. Previously each role was separately defined in the Failover Cluster Manager, but due a need for the iSCSI Target Server to be able to store…
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Why can Win10 Nodes Check In With WSUS But Not Pull Updates (0x8024401c)

I have a Windows Server 2016 running WSUS (WID Database). The nodes on my system are all Windows 10 Professional. They are configured through group policy to check the Server 2016 for updates. The nodes and server are not behind a proxy in…
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Best practices for an in-place upgrade from Server 2008r2 to 2016/2019?

I've got several web servers running Server 2008r2 SP2 Standard with SQL Server 2014. What is the best practice / easiest in-place upgrade path to get to Windows Server 2016? In testing, I'm only able to upgrade from 2008r2 to 2012 and then upgrade…
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What does "defer features updates" do in Windows Server 2016?

I know what the "defer upgrades" option in Windows 10 does - it allows you to choose between the "Current Branch" and the "Current Branch for Business". Windows Server 2016, on the other hand, always uses the "Long Term Servicing Branch". Thus, I…
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Newly installed programs in Server 2016 can't be clicked from the start menu

I created a new instance of Windows Server Datacenter 2016 on AWS (Version: 1607 OS Build 14393.321). When I install a new application and try to click on it from the start menu it does not work. This seems to be the exact same issue another user…
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What is the minimum number of SSD drive for a tiered + mirrored storage spaces volume?

Does Windows Server 2016 (or Windows Server 2012 R2) allow the creation of a Tiered Mirrored Storage Spaces volume with the following configuration: HDD tier: 2 HDD same size, mirrored (RAID 1) SSD tier: 1 SSD drive For example, I have 2 x 136 GB…
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Hyper-V Containers are going to allow running of Linux Containers?

I cannot find a definitive answer anywhere (lots of contradicting information and very general). With the new version of MS Windows Server 2016 it's going to be possible to run containers in two modes: Windows Container Hyper-V Container First one…
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Is there a technology similar to Docker Containers for Windows Server?

Docker Containers (which is basically application isolation, afaik) look handy but they are only for Linux. Even "Docker Container for Windows" basically just installs a Linux VM into VirtualBox on Windows. So is there such a thing as a Docker…
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Domain computer account trust relationship failed after connecting system with old hard drive to network

Our server is Windows 2016. I set up a new install of Windows 10 on a new hard drive. I named the computer on the new install the same as the old one. I kept the old hard drive as-is and didn't make any changes to it for back up purposes. Something…
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Windows Server sometimes has wrong date

Having a Windows Server 2016 (hosted at Amazon AWS EC2) that is running successfully for years. Since some month I'm experiencing that the Scheduled Tasks (e.g. a task that is configured to run daily) are not being executed. No error message in the…
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File Server Cluster with shared storage - options for storage

We would like to build two-node File Server Cluster with Shared Storage on VM. The issues is that our vmware set up doesn't support disk sharing. File server cluster must be available all the time of course. What other options do we have? I…
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Bulk install new certificates on multiple Windows Server 2016+ endpoints

I have begrudgingly been updating our purchased wildcard certs manually for years and I've had enough now that I've got over 100 web and client servers. The servers are mostly independent and spread across a few different domains, but there are a…
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MS-RDS sporadically slow redirect

I've setup a 2016 RDS farm with 1 RD Connection Broker (RDCB), 40 RD Session Hosts (RDH), no Web Access and no Gateway. There are about 4000 connections (mostly reconnects) per hour. The connections are following this way: Client -> RDH -> RDCB ->…
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