Windows 10: Windows Server 2022 Editions compared and discussed

WinClub · Aug 22, 2021

The Windows Server 2022 is available and it brings along advanced multi-layer security, hybrid capabilities with Azure, and a flexible application platform. It has inbuilt secured-core capabilities to help protect hardware, firmware, and Windows Server OS capabilities against advanced security threats. Secured-core servers are based on technologies such as Windows Defender System Guard and Virtualization-based Security […]

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Brink · Aug 22, 2021

Microsoft released Windows Server 2022 on August 18, 2021

Windows Server 2022 comes with 3 editions:

Datacenter

Datacenter: Azure Edition

Standard

Support Dates
[table][tr]Listing Start Date Mainstream End Date Extended End Date [/tr] [tr][td]Windows Server 2022[/td] [td]Aug 18, 2021[/td] [td]Oct 13, 2026[/td] [td]Oct 14, 2031[/td] [/tr] [/table]
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Brink · Aug 22, 2021

Windows Server 2022 is now in preview on the Evaluation Center

At Microsoft Ignite, we announced that Windows Server 2022 was in preview. This new version of Windows Server includes some exciting new capabilities such as advanced multi-layer security, which includes bringing Secured-Core to Windows Server to secure system running applications and services on Windows Server 2022. This release also includes more hybrid capabilities with Azure Arc and improvements to Storage Migration Services. Furthermore, it packs in significant improvements to the Windows container runtime such as cross-version compatibility and containerization tools for .NET, ASP.NET, and Internet Information Services (IIS) applications. You can read in more detail about these capabilities in the Windows Server 2022 announcement blog.

Since we announced the availability of the Windows Server 2022 preview on Insiders, thousands of customers have downloaded or tried it on Azure, and we received lots of helpful feedback. Many customers have indicated that they would like to start validating the new Windows Server 2022 release sooner. As a result, we decided to make the Windows Server 2022 preview also available on Azure.

We are happy to share that the preview of Windows Server is now available on the Evaluation Center and our partners and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) ecosystem can access it for validation. Whether you are planning to implement Windows Server in Azure, in your datacenter, or through a Microsoft partner, we encourage you to try this preview and leverage the innovation we have included in Windows Server 2022.

More importantly, customers with Software Assurance (SA) get more from their existing Windows Server deployments and have upgrade rights to the latest release. That way they can begin taking advantage of all that is best of breed in Windows Server 2022. Additionally, if they’re thinking about moving workloads to the cloud, SA also gets them access to Azure Hybrid Benefit where they can bring Windows Server and SQL Server on-premises licenses to Azure. We would like to encourage customers to take advantage of the current preview to accelerate deployments in their environments when Windows Server 2022 is generally available later this calendar year.

Note that we do not recommend deploying the Windows Sever 2022 preview for production workloads. Secondly, all Insider’s customers can use Windows Server 2022 and access it on the Evaluation Center.

If you’d like to learn more about Windows Server 2022, we have you covered

Register for the upcoming webinar, Maximize Your Windows Server Hybrid Strategy with Azure, Thursday, June 10, 2021, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Pacific Time.

Secondly, join us for an upcoming Ask Microsoft Anything for all your Windows Server questions on Wednesday, June 2, 2021, from 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Pacific Time.

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Source: https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/win...uation-center/

Brink · Aug 22, 2021

Announcing Windows Server 2022 now in preview

Today we are announcing that Windows Server 2022 is now in preview, the next release in our Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC), which will be generally available later this calendar year. It builds on Windows Server 2019, our fastest adopted Windows Server ever. This release includes advanced multi-layer security, hybrid capabilities with Azure, and a flexible platform to modernize applications with containers.

Over the years, companies like Forever 21 and Sentara Healthcare have relied on Windows Server to run their business-critical workloads. A big thank you to all the members of the Windows Server community and our customers and partners for your support and feedback that inspired the innovation we built into this new release.

Advanced multi-layer security

With a growing number of cyber-security threats and the impact of incidents escalating quickly, security is a top priority for our customers. Windows Server 2022 includes new security capabilities like secured-core server and secure connectivity.

Secured-core server brings powerful threat protection together to provide multi-layer security across hardware, firmware, and the operating system. It uses the Trusted Platform Module 2.0 and System Guard to boot up Windows Server securely and minimize risk from firmware vulnerabilities. Secured-core server also includes virtualization-based security (VBS) features like Credential Guard and Hypervisor-protected code integrity (HVCI). Credential Guard provides preventative defense for sensitive assets like credentials, and HVCI applies hardware—rooted security to prevent advanced malware from tampering with the system.

Secured connectivity adds an additional layer of security during transport for advanced protection. Windows Server 2022 improves connection security with faster and more secure encrypted hypertext transfer protocol secure (HTTPS) and transport layer security (TLS) 1.3 enabled by default. Customers can also further secure server communications with industry-standard AES-256 encryption, which now supports server message block (SMB) protocol and better controls.

Hybrid capabilities with Azure

We are bringing new capabilities that enable customers to take advantage of cloud innovation with their on-premises investments. Azure Arc and Storage Migration Service are two key hybrid capabilities that work best with Windows Server 2022.

Azure Arc enables customers to manage, secure, and govern Windows Server on-premises, at the edge, or in multi-cloud environments from a single control plane in Azure. Through Azure Arc, customers can easily employ Azure management capabilities such as Azure Policy, Azure Monitor, and Azure Defender for those servers. What’s more, a few simple clicks in Windows Admin Center can enable connectivity to Azure Arc. Further, we have enhanced Windows Admin Center v2103 with significantly improved virtual machine management, a simpler event viewer, and many more updates. Windows Admin Center is also available in the Azure portal.

Windows Server 2022 enhances the seamless connectivity of file servers on-premises to file servers on Azure. Updates to Storage Migration Service allow customers to migrate file servers from NetApp FAS to Windows Servers. Using Storage Migration Service to migrate data to servers allows customers to maintain low latency while reducing their on-premises storage footprint.

Flexible application platform

Customers use Windows Server to run large-scale and distributed applications. Consequently, we have placed relentless focus on bringing platform capabilities and tools that improve developer velocity and support for business-critical workloads like SQL Server.

In this release, we are adding several platform improvements for Windows Containers, including application compatibility and the Windows Container experience with Kubernetes. A major improvement includes reducing the Windows Container image size, which leads to faster download time and better performance. In addition, you can now run applications that depend on Azure Active Directory with group Managed Services Accounts (gMSA) without domain joining the container host. Furthermore, there are several other enhancements that simplify the Windows Container experience with Kubernetes. These enhancements include support for host-process containers for node configuration, IPv6, and consistent network policy implementation with Calico.

In addition to platform improvements, we have an updated Windows Admin Center tool that makes it easy to containerize .NET applications. Once the application is in a container, you can host it on Azure Container Registry to then deploy it to other Azure services, including Azure Kubernetes Service.

Windows Server 2022 supports business-critical and large-scale applications like SQL Server that require 48TB of memory and 2,048 logical cores running on 64 physical sockets.

Try out the new Windows Server 2022 preview

Thank you for being a valuable Windows Server customer and, through your passion and feedback, helping us shape this new release. Watch our Microsoft Ignite session for more details about the release of Windows Server 2022.

Don’t forget to:

Learn more about Windows Server Software Assurance benefits

Software Assurance customers can take advantage of New Version Rights and will be able to upgrade to Windows Server 2022

Try Windows Server 2022 LTSC in preview:

Download the preview

Try Windows Server 2022 on Azure

Download Windows Admin Center

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Source: https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/win...ow-in-preview/

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