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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.

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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 7, 2016 1 min read

Ten reasons you’ll love Windows Server 2016 #1: PowerShell and DSC

Manage your servers “DevOps-style” and share code with the PowerShell community In his “Ten Reasons you’ll love Windows Server 2016” video series, technical evangelist Matt McSpirit introduces you to some of the experts behind the most exciting new features in Windows Server 2016.

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Updates February 19, 2016 1 min read

Clarifying our hardware platform support

Over the past several weeks, the Windows Server team has received a number of inquiries regarding certification and support for certain hardware platforms and questioning as to any change in policy we may have in this regard.

Updates February 11, 2016 1 min read

Manage your Windows Server from anywhere

We are pleased to announce the public preview of Server Management tools, a set of web-based remote GUI tools that can be used to manage installations of Windows Server 2016 (now in technical preview).

Updates February 10, 2016 2 min read

Exploring Nano Server for Windows Server 2016

If you haven’t yet tried Windows Server 2016, today we hope to give you a few more reasons to try out our latest technical preview.

Updates February 4, 2016 8 min read

Zero to SDN in under five minutes

Deploy a cloud application quickly with the new Microsoft SDN stack You might have seen this blog post recently published on common data center challenges.

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Updates January 21, 2016 2 min read

Developers: Check out the Nano Server installation option in Windows Server 2016

As organizations move toward modern DevOps practices, the role of the operating system needs to evolve to support both the “Dev” and the “Ops” part of the equation.

Updates November 18, 2015 7 min read

Protecting your datacenter and cloud: November update

This post was authored by the Windows Server Security and Assurance Team Six months ago, in a previous blog post “Protecting your datacenter and cloud from emerging threats” we introduced our strategy and direction on how Microsoft can help customers protect their datacenter and private cloud from emerging threats.

Updates November 16, 2015 6 min read

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

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

Ten reasons you’ll love Windows Server 2016 #1: PowerShell and DSC

Clarifying our hardware platform support

Manage your Windows Server from anywhere

Exploring Nano Server for Windows Server 2016

Zero to SDN in under five minutes

Developers: Check out the Nano Server installation option in Windows Server 2016

Protecting your datacenter and cloud: November update

Moving to Nano Server, the new deployment option in Windows Server 2016

4 datacenter challenges and how Windows Server 2016 software defined networking can help

Moving forward in the cloud world with software-defined storage

Investing in your success with Windows Server