Generally disposable today, Windows Server 2025 builds connected our ngo to present a unafraid and high-performance Windows Server level tailored to conscionable customers’ divers needs. This merchandise volition alteration you to deploy apps successful immoderate environment, whether on-premises, hybrid environments, oregon successful the cloud.

Advanced multilayered security 

In an epoch wherever cybersecurity is of utmost value (see the Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2024 and the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Healthcare Ransomware Report), Windows Server 2025 stands retired with a suite of information features designed to safeguard your information and infrastructure. Here are a fewer cardinal capabilities: 

• Active Directory (AD): The golden modular for individuality and authentication lone gets amended with caller information capabilities to assistance fortify your situation against evolving threats with greater scalability and improvements successful protocols, encryption, hardening, and caller cryptographic support. 

• File services/server connection artifact (SMB) hardening: Windows Server 2025 includes SMB implicit QUIC to alteration unafraid entree to record shares implicit the internet. SMB information besides adds hardened firewall defaults, brute unit onslaught prevention, and protections for antheral successful the mediate attacks, relay attacks, and spoofing attacks. 

• Delegate Managed Service Accounts (dMSA): Unlike accepted work accounts, dMSAs don’t necessitate manual password absorption since AD automatically takes attraction of it. With dMSAs, circumstantial permissions tin beryllium delegated to entree resources successful the domain, which reduces information risks and provides amended visibility and logs of work relationship activity. 

These precocious information features marque Windows Server 2025 a robust and unafraid level for your IT infrastructure that you should begin evaluating immediately.

Cloud agility anywhere

Windows Server 2025 introduces respective precocious hybrid unreality capabilities designed to heighten operational flexibility and connectivity crossed assorted environments. Key features include: 

• Hotpatching enabled by Azure Arc: Customers operating afloat successful the unreality person inherent modern information advantages similar automatic bundle updates and back-up and recovery.  Now we’re bringing immoderate of those capabilities to Windows Server 2025 for on-premises customers with a caller hotpatching subscription service, enabled by Azure Arc. With hotpatching, customers volition acquisition less reboots and minimal disruption to operations. Hotpatching delivers information updates for Azure Arc-enabled Windows Server 2025 Standard oregon Datacenter moving connected carnal machines, virtual machines, on-premises, oregon multicloud servers. Hotpatching, presently successful preview, volition necessitate a monthly subscription. The hotpatching feature remains no further outgo for Windows Server Datacenter Azure Edition virtual machines.

• Easy Azure Arc onboarding: Windows Server 2025 brings Azure’s almighty capabilities straight into your datacenter done Azure Arc. This integration simplifies the onboarding process to Azure’s hybrid features and enhances operational flexibility, allowing you to negociate and unafraid your hybrid and multicloud environments much effectively. 

• Software-defined web (SDN) multisite features: The software-defined web (SDN) multisite features connection autochthonal L2 and L3 connectivity for seamless workload migration crossed assorted locations, coupled with unified web argumentation management. 

• Unified web argumentation management: This capableness allows for centralized absorption of web policies, making it easier to support accordant information and show standards crossed your hybrid unreality environment.

These hybrid unreality capabilities marque Windows Server 2025 an perfect prime for organizations looking to optimize their IT infrastructure and leverage the benefits of some on-premises and unreality environments.

AI, performance, and scale 

Windows Server 2025 is designed to grip the astir demanding workloads, including AI and instrumentality learning. Here are immoderate cardinal capabilities: 

• Hyper-V, AI, and instrumentality learning: With built-in enactment for GPU partitioning and the quality to process ample information sets crossed distributed environments, Windows Server 2025 offers a high-performance level for some accepted applications and precocious AI workloads with unrecorded migration and precocious availability. 

• NVMe retention performance: Windows Server 2025 delivers up to 60% much retention IOPs show compared to Windows Server 2022 connected identical systems. (Based connected 4K randread utilizing Diskpsd 2.2 with Kioxia CM7 SSd) 

• Storage Spaces Direct and retention flexibility: Windows Server supports a wide scope of retention solutions specified arsenic local, NAS, and SAN for decades and continues to this day. Windows Server 2025 delivers much retention innovation with Native ReFS deduplication and compression, thinly povisioned Storage Spaces, and Storage Replica Compression present disposable successful each editions of Windows Server 2025.

• Hyper-V show and scale: Windows Server 2025 introduces monolithic show and scalability improvements that travel from Azure. Windows Server 2025 Hyper-V virtual instrumentality maximums: 
  • Maximum representation per VM: 240 Terabytes* — (10x previous) 
  • Maximum virtual processors per VM: 2048 VPs* — (~8.5x previous) 

*Requires Generation 2 VMs

Windows Server 2025 delivers large advancements crossed the committee for Hyper-V, GPU integration, Storage Spaces Direct (software defined storage), software-defined networking, and clustering. These improvements marque Windows Server 2025 an fantabulous enactment for organizations looking for a virtualization solution and for organizations looking to leverage AI and instrumentality learning portion maintaining precocious show and scalability.

System Center 2025 is disposable now

By delivering System Center 2025 concurrently with Windows Server 2025, absorption of Windows Server astatine standard is disposable immediately. This allows organizations to marque the astir of caller Windows Server features. Designed to heighten agility, performance, and security, this merchandise is acceptable to heighten however organizations optimize their infrastructure and virtualized software-defined datacenters. We promote you to sojourn the System Center 2025 station larn more. 

Microsoft Ignite 2024

We look guardant to gathering you successful idiosyncratic and sharing these and different Windows Server 2025 features successful our sessions and astatine our booth astatine Microsoft Ignite successful Chicago, November 19-21. For those of you who can’t marque it, galore sessions, including our Windows Server breakout titled Windows Server 2025: New Ways to summation unreality agility and security, volition beryllium disposable for online viewing. 

We are besides excited to bring caller features to customers connected existing Windows Server versions similar 2016, 2019, 2022, arsenic good arsenic 2025. Windows Server Software Assurance oregon progressive subscription customers tin entree Azure absorption tools similar Azure Update Manager, Azure Policy Guest Configuration, Disaster Recovery, Change Tracking and Inventory, and more, with entree to galore features coming astatine nary further cost**. Tune into Microsoft Ignite wherever we volition amusement much demos and accusation connected however to entree these caller offerings.

Additional Windows Server resources

• Try Windows Server 2025 today
• Windows Server documentation
• Learn much astir what’s caller successful Windows Server 2025
• Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate 
• Administer Active Directory Domain Services

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Notes

1. ** Note: compute and retention whitethorn incur further fees.