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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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Cannot Convert DC to single DC

Windows 2016 Server environment with 3 DCs, single domain. All DCs are also GCs. Server 1 holds all 5 FSMO roles. Now I want to export the VM of server 1 and put onto a different environment on a separate virtual host server, network completely…
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Windows Server 2016 Standard: User accounts filling up C: drive, but the accounts are empty

I'm dealing with a virtual server that keeps maxing out the C: drive due to the Users directory. The Users directory has well over 2,000 Users, each taking up ~70MB of space, but when I look in an individual User directory I find that the total…
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IIS_IUSRS doesn't exist to be added on Synology share

I used to have my website running on a physical Windows Server 2016 machine with IIS 10 which accessed its data files on an old Netgear NAS. I have since replaced the NAS with a Synology RS815+ running DSM 6.2.4-25556 Update 6 and virtualized the…
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Intentional Time Skew for NTP on Windows Server (2016)

Due to a badly written interface, I have a need to ensure that server A is always a few seconds ahead of server B. (Yes I know this is a horrible thing to do) I have three broad solutions so far: (preferred) alter W32Time to set the clock X seconds…
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NEW LAPS on Server 2016 / WIn 10 22H2 Environment

With the latest April update which adds LAPS to windows 10 22H2 and above I find that to be incredibly helpful. What isn't helpful is that my environment is running with Server 2016. I have installed Legacy LAPS and enabled LAPs on the Windows 10…
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Enlarging RAID1 virtual drive online on LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-8i without downtime?

I recently went out to a customer location and replaced + rebuilt a RAID1 drive group on their Lenovo TS440 server, going from 2 TB drives to 4 TB drives. Question is - what's the best way to enlarge the virtual drive group? It's stuck at 2 TB and I…
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Windows Update Service gets stuck at Stopping state whenever I check for update on the domain controller

On my domain controller which is Running Windows Server 2016, whenever I check for updates, the updates start downloading and get stuck at 7% or sometimes stuck at checking for updates. I see that the Windows Update service goes from running to…
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Detected LanMan/NTLMv1 Authentication method on Windows Server 2016

After running a security scan, I have this vulnerability showing up: Detected LanMan/NTLMv1 Authentication method. I can only find information about Windows Server 2008, or Windows XP online regarding that issue. How can I remediate this issue, and…
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How does Windows run an uninstaller at logon

When users log into a Server 2016 Remote Desktop Server, they see this message. I'd like to stop that message from appearing. Where does Windows set a flag or set up the autorun to uninstall an app at logon? This may be user-specific as many users…
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Grant local impersonation user permission to share

We have a domain connected server (Windows Server 2016) named STORAGE. The server has a local "impersonation" user created by our Autodesk software called AutodeskVault. This user is only a member of the "Users" group on STORAGE and nothing more. I…
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Windows Server 2016 Update Failure Rollback

When I attempt to run an update using check for updates or the cumulative offline installer, the update fails and rolls back. Here's the log from the rollback, not sure how much I should include, so this is just before the start of errors…
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How to delete a domain user with associated folder rights?

Right now when I delete a user from the domain I get left with these folder rights remnants that I have to remove manually. I've noticed this on both Windows and Linux driven data servers. Is there a way to force client in a domain to automatically…
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How to validate .NET Framework 4.8 is installed on Windows Server 2016

I installed .NET Framework 4.8 on a Windows Server 2016 using this link .NET 4.8 offline installer]1. And although everything seems to be going well, when I check the windows features it does not appear installed and 4.6 is displayed. Please, could…
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WDS Unattended Answer File - Not Auto Logging-In to Domain

I am trying to create an Answer file to pass domain login credentials (not to join the domain) when the WDS server is booted via PXE to install Windows 10 on a laptop. The server is on the domain and is running Window Server 2016 Standard version…
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Process with very high RAM usage takes very long to stop using force stop in Task Manager

We have a Windows Server 2016 with around physical 700GB RAM. A colleague of mine ran a machine learning script in Matlab, that loaded 25GB of data in RAM and during the training the RAM usage increased up to 350GB (usual behavior for many AI…
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