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Updates April 8, 2016 2 min read

Ten reasons you’ll love Windows Server 2016 #2: Active Directory and Identity

More on-premises control over user and administrator access for a cloud-first, mobile-first world This is the second post in the “Ten Reasons you’ll love Windows Server 2016” video series by Matt McSpirit, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft.

Updates April 11, 2016 2 min read

Ten reasons you’ll love Windows Server 2016 #3: Server management tools

Manage Windows Server from anywhere This is the third post in the “Ten Reasons You’ll Love Windows Server 2016” video series by Matt McSpirit, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft.

Updates April 14, 2016 2 min read

Ten reasons you’ll love Windows Server 2016 #5: Software-defined storage

This is the fifth post in the “Ten Reasons You’ll Love Windows Server 2016” videos by Matt McSpirit, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft.

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Updates April 19, 2016 2 min read

Ten reasons you’ll love Windows Server 2016 #6: Software-defined compute

This is the sixth post in the “Ten Reasons You’ll Love Windows Server 2016” video series by Matt McSpirit, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft.

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Updates April 27, 2016 3 min read

Ten reasons you’ll love Windows Server 2016 #10: Nano Server

This is the final post in the “Ten reasons you’ll love Windows Server 2016” series.

Updates May 26, 2016 6 min read

Moving forward with PowerShell and Windows Server 2016

This post was authored by Keith Bankston, Senior Program Manager, Windows Server.

Updates August 3, 2016 1 min read

What’s new in failover clustering: #07 SMB Multichannel & Multi-NIC cluster networks

This post was authored by Rob Hindman, Senior Program Manager, Windows Server Getting the best performance Building enterprise-grade solutions with Windows Server 2016 is now easier with the new Simplified SMB Multichannel feature in Failover Clustering.

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Updates August 25, 2016 4 min read

Windows Server scalability and more!

This post was authored by Jeff Woolsey, Principal Program Manager, Windows Server.

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Updates September 28, 2016 6 min read

Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V large-scale VM performance for in-memory transaction processing

This post was authored by Liang Yang, Principal Performance Engineer on the Hyper-V team and Jos de Bruijn, Senior Program Manager on the SQL Server team.

Updates November 29, 2016 1 min read

Prepare for the new MCSA: Windows Server 2016 certification

We’ve got great news for IT Pros who’ve been waiting for the MCSA: Windows Server 2016 certification! It will be available soon, and we have some practical instructor-led courses to help you get ready for the exams: 20740: Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016 This course is designed for professionals who will be […]

Updates January 9, 2017 7 min read

Why WSUS and SCCM managed clients are reaching out to Microsoft Online

Of late, several customers have reached out to my team asking why their Windows 10 1511 and 1607 clients, which are managed by WSUS or SCCM are going online to Microsoft update to download updates.

Events June 14, 2017 1 min read

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