Windows 10: Windows Server 2022 Essentials ISO not available

Daksh Saraf · Feb 4, 2022

I recently purchased windows server 2022 essentials verison and have the product key.But I cannot find a download ISO for windows server 2022 essentials version online on Microsofts website.I can only find the download link for the version that contains the standard and the datacenter version.Where should I download the essentials version from?

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Brink · Feb 4, 2022

Windows Server 2022 Now Generally Available

Overview

Today we announced the General Availability (GA) of Windows Server 2022. It is such an exciting milestone for the Windows Server community and the broader ecosystem. As someone who shipped the last few Windows Server releases and have been working with teams across Microsoft to bring Windows Server 2022 to GA, I am thrilled to share this with our Windows Server container community!

As outlined in this What’s new for Windows Containers on Windows Server 2022 blog, Windows Server 2022 brings innovations and improvements in Windows Server container platform, application compatibility and containerization tooling. In addition, a new Server container image that supports better application compatibility for Server applications was introduced with this release as shared in this Announcing a New Windows Server Container Image Preview blog.

Partnering with the Kubernetes Community

The most exciting part with this release is we are aiming to work with the Kubernetes community to enable Windows Server 2022 support there, bring it to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure Kubernetes Service on Azure Stack HCI (AKS-HCI) and support the whole ecosystem to adopt as well. We are excited to share the following PRs are already submitted in the Kubernetes community:

Pause Images: Added base image for Windows Server 2022

test images: Adds Windows Server 2022 to the BASEIMAGEs

test images: Adds Windows Server 2022 to the BASEIMAGEs (part 2)

In addition, these test jobs on networking are being added:

sig-windows-networking Test Grid

sig-windows-networking Test Grid

There will be more coming as we continue to work with the Kubernetes community on this journey. You are welcome to contribute as well.

With the upcoming deprecation of dockershim in Kubernetes, we intended to support containerd as the only container runtime for Windows Server 2022 on Microsoft’s first party Kubernetes services aka AKS and AKS-HCI. We started the containerd work back in Windows Server 2019 and have been supporting containerd internally for various Azure services. This containerd-only focus starting with Windows Server 2022 aligns with where the ecosystem is going and will give our customers a more robust and performant experience. Containerd support for Windows Server 2019 on AKS is already in preview per this update Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) support for containerd runtime is in preview.

Container Images

Windows base OS images by Microsoft is the landing page of the product family of all Windows Server base OS container images. As usual the actual images are available on Microsoft Container Registry (MCR). This release comes with these 3 container images types:

windows/nanoserver: Nano Server base OS image

windows/servercore: Windows Server Core base OS image

windows/server: Windows Server base OS image; new for this release.

For those of you using the Windows base OS image and wanting to run the image on a Windows Server 2022 host in Process Isolation, you will need to switch to use that new Server base OS image instead. Otherwise, you can run the Windows base OS image with Hyper-V isolation on a Windows Server 2022 host. You can always check out more details on container host and container image version compatibility at the Windows container version compatibility documentation page.

If you are interested in container images from other teams from Microsoft, the following are also available for Windows Server 2022:

dotnet/core

dotnet/framework

iis

powershell

Image Tags

There will be 3 types of tags for this release:

Featured Tag: “ltsc2022”. This will always be the latest release with the latest patches going forward. Note: We don’t have the “latest” tag for any Windows base OS container images.

Featured Tag + a KB number: “ltsc2022-KBxxxxxxx”, e.g. “ltsc022-KB5005039”.

Build number: “10.0.20348.XX”, e.g., 10.0.20348.169. Note: 20348 is the build number of Windows Server 2022 release.

For example, this is how you pull Windows Server 2022 container images:

docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/windows/nanoserver:ltsc2022

docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore:ltsc2022-KB5005039

docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/windows/server:10.0.20348.169

As we move forward with monthly patches, you can still use the featured tag and get the latest images; or you can specify the specific KB number or the build number for a specific release. You can use the Windows Server container update history for reference.

How to get started?

To get a Windows Server 2022 as your container host on Azure, start here Windows Server on Azure Marketplace. Be sure to follow the instructions to Install Docker.

To get a Windows Server 2022 base OS container image, start here Windows base OS images by Microsoft.

To get started with Windows containers in general, start with our Containers on Windows documentation .

What’s Next?

We are actively working with the Kubernetes community as well as our own AKS and AKS-HCI teams to bring up Windows Server 2022 support. To keep up to date on when Windows Server 2022 will be available on AKS and AKS-HCI, please follow these GitHub threads:

[Feature] Support WS2022 on Windows · Issue #2115 · Azure/AKS

Windows Server 2022 Support on AKS-HCI · Issue #123 · Azure/aks-hci

Feedback and Issues

We would love for our customers and community to try out and let us know your feedback. Please feel free to post in our Windows Container GitHub community.

Thank you!
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Brink · Feb 4, 2022

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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Read more:

Windows Server 2022 - Microsoft Lifecycle

What's new in Windows Server 2022

Comparison of Standard, Datacenter, and Datacenter Azure Edition editions of Windows Server 2022

Brink · Feb 4, 2022

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/

See also:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/...on/m-p/2381310

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/...re/m-p/2409194

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/...le/m-p/2413586

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