#Windows Server 2025

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Upgrade Expired Evaluation Configuration Manager to Full Version

When you install Configuration Manager as an evaluation version. It becomes read-only after 180 days. Before or after this period, you will need to activate the product from the Site Maintenance page in Setup and have it upgraded to a full installation. This can be done at any time before or after the 180 days. In this article, we shall discuss how to Upgrade Expired Evaluation Configuration…

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Windows Server 2025 Packer Build for VMware vSphere

Windows Server 2025 Packer Build for VMware vSphere @vexpert #vmwarecommunities #hashicorppacker #windowsserver2025 #packerbuild #packertemplate #homelab #virtualization #devops

I have been working the last few days on my Windows Server 2025 packer build for VMware vSphere now that Windows Server 2025 has now been released as GA. It did require quite a few tweaks from the previous way I built Windows Server 2022. So, hopefully this will give anyone a look at how you can quickly get up to speed to update your packer build templates for VMware vSphere. Table of…

[network4you]

Windows Server 2025 vs. 2022

Windows Server 2022 noch aus?

Keine Sorge, network4you hilft Ihnen, die Entscheidung zu treffen! In diesem umfassenden Vergleich werfen wir einen Blick auf die wichtigsten Unterschiede zwischen Windows Server 2025 und 2022. So können Sie genau abwägen, welche Version für Ihre spezifischen Netzwerk-Anforderungen am besten geeignet ist.

Active Directory: Verbesserte Skalierbarkeit und Leistung

Active Directory (AD) ist das Herzstück Ihres Windows-Netzwerks und für die Benutzerverwaltung und den Zugriff auf Ressourcen verantwortlich. Windows Server 2025 bringt einige signifikante Verbesserungen für AD mit sich:

Größere Datenbankkapazität: Die Umstellung auf ein 32-KB-Datenbankseitenformat ermöglicht eine wesentlich höhere Anzahl von Attributwerten pro Objekt. Damit wird AD auch für größere Unternehmen mit komplexen Benutzerstrukturen skalierbarer.

Erweiterte Schema-Updates: Neue LDF-Dateien erweitern das AD-Schema und bieten Platz für zukünftige Erweiterungen und Funktionen.

Verbesserte Objektverwaltung: Administratoren können nun fehlende Kernattribute von Objekten reparieren und den Zeitstempel der letzten Anmeldung zurücksetzen. Das vereinfacht die Fehlerbehebung und Wartung.

Fazit: Wenn Sie ein großes Netzwerk mit vielen Benutzern und komplexen AD-Strukturen verwalten, sind die Skalierbarkeits- und Verwaltungsverbesserungen von Windows Server 2025 äußerst attraktiv.

Container: Mehr Flexibilität und Effizienz

Container sind mittlerweile ein fester Bestandteil moderner Anwendungsentwicklung. Windows Server 2025 optimiert die Container-Unterstützung in mehreren Bereichen:

Getrennte Host- und Container-Upgrades: Host-Upgrades und Container-Updates können nun unabhängig voneinander durchgeführt werden. Dadurch wird der Lebenszyklus von Anwendungen und Infrastruktur entkoppelt und die Flexibilität erhöht.

Verbesserte Container-Performance: Dank kleinerer Images und optimierten Prozessabläufen arbeiten Container unter Windows Server 2025 generell schneller und effizienter.

Erweiterte Kompatibilität: Die Kompatibilität von Anwendungen mit Nano Server, der abgespeckten Version von Windows Server, wurde durch „Features on Demand“ verbessert. So können Sie Container auf Nano Server nutzen und dabei auf benötigte Funktionen zugreifen.

Fazit: Wenn Sie containerisierte Anwendungen in Ihrem Netzwerk einsetzen, bieten die Verbesserungen in Windows Server 2025 eine höhere Flexibilität, Performance und Effizienz.

Stellen Sie sich vor, Ihr Unternehmen könnte mit der gleichen Effizienz und Performance arbeiten wie ein Weltkonzern. Klingt unrealistisch? Nicht unbedingt! Mit den richtigen Technologiepartnern an Ihrer Seite können Sie die Leistungsfähigkeit Ihres Unternehmens in München spürbar steigern. Hier kommt Network4you (Systemhaus München), ein zertifizierter Microsoft Gold Partner, ins Spiel.

[it-system-engineer]

Windows Server 2025: Yeni Dönemde Bizi Neler Bekliyor?

Teknoloji dünyası hızla gelişmeye devam ederken, Microsoft da yeni işletim sistemleri ve sunucu çözümleriyle bu trende ayak uyduruyor. Windows Server 2025, özellikle kurumlara yönelik çözümler sunarak daha verimli, güvenli ve esnek bir altyapı vaat ediyor. Peki, Windows Server 2025 ile birlikte bizi hangi yenilikler bekliyor? Gelişmiş Güvenlik Özellikleri Güvenlik, her işletim sisteminde olduğu…

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What's the difference between Windows server 2025 and Windows Server 2022

Windows Server 2025 download is available on the archive, and if you need the Windows server 2025 Product key and Server 2025 Cals , you can get it from the Microsoft partner store keyingo.com

There are key improvements in Windows Server 2025 in the following areas:

Hotpatching – rebootless patches

Active Directory – new scalability, domain and forest functional levels

Storage – Faster NVMe, new features added

Clusters and Hyper-V – Workgroup clusters, configuration maximums in Hyper-V

Networking – New Network HUD, multisite SDN, and more

Containers – Smaller containers, decoupled host and container updates

File Services with SMB Over QUIC & Security – QUIC now in Standard and Datacenter

Modern Server Experience – Winget, OS upgrades through Windows Updates

1. Hotpatching

It allows you to install security patches without a reboot. Every patch Tuesday patches are released. Hotpatching allows applying those patches without a reboot. It modifies the in-memory code and the server processes don’t have to be restarted.

Hotpatching was released in Azure Edition of Windows Server 2022. However, Windows Server 2025 brings to the realm of any type of infrastructure (Hyper-V on-premises, VMware, physical hardware, etc). Through Arc-enablement you can enable hotpatching as a monthly subscription.

XBOX is currently making use of this new rebootless technology with patching in their services.

2. Active Directory

Compared to Windows Server 2002, Active Directory is much more scalable with 32K page size. Before it was 8K pages. Now with Windows Server 2025 and 35K pages, it significantly enhances the amount of data that can be stored and the scalability of Active Directory in general. It will require the new functional level update (forest and domain levels)

3. Optimized NVMe storage enhancements

Microsoft mentions that just by upgrading to Windows Server 2025 you get 70% faster NVMe performance. Windows Server 2025 dramatically enhances the performance of data-intensive applications.

This helps with lower latency and higher throughput for applications and helps remove any bottleneck to performance from the storage layer.

Microsoft has also folded in a lot of other advancements that have come about on the storage front from Azure as they do with many of the LTSC releases. Those improvements include:

Storage Replica – performance enhancements and enhanced log, SR compression

ReFS – Optimized dedup and compression for active workloads like virtual machines

Storage Spaces – Thinly provisioned storage spaces and stretched cluster support

4. Clusters and Hyper-V

Compared with Windows Server 2002, there are many improvements for clustering and failover clustering. Now cluster-aware updating has many enhancements including:

Reliability and performance improvements

You can now upgrade to Windows Server 2025 from Windows Server 2022 without downtime. In the same fashion you apply new versions of Windows 11 it will run the update to newer versions of the OS. Windows Server 2025 will do the same thing.

Workgroup clusters (no domain join) – cert-based VM live migration now works without domain join

GPU-P VM live migration on a failover cluster

Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) stretch clusters between two sites

Improved storage replica (SR) performance

Hyper-V’s role in Windows Server 2025 is more powerful than ever. It has many enhancements in this release. The introduction of improved GPU partitioning capabilities allows for more efficient allocation of graphics processing resources among virtual machines. It is a feature particularly beneficial for applications requiring intensive graphical processing or machine learning tasks.

Microsoft touts that Hyper-V is everywhere and they are using across many technologies:

Azure

Azure Stack Family

Windows Server/ Windows

Containers with Hyper-V isolation

Platform security

Xbox

Dynamic processor compatibilities in Windows Server 2025 has been significantly improved. It is much more granular and looks at the capabilities between the processors and reducing the capabilities to match the processors.

Furthermore, there is greatly increased scalability with Hyper-V, It now supports up to 248 virtual processors and 240 terabytes of RAM, prepare Hyper-V. These features, coupled with the refined dynamic processor compatibility, make sure Hyper-V is a modern solution capable of handling anything you want to throw at it.

To take advantage of these new features, use Gen 2 VMs and UEFI BIOS.

5. Networking

There are many advancements coming in networking in Windows Server 2025 vs Windows Server 2022.

Network ATC one-click deployment and drift remediation

Network HUD – “heads up” display for networking

SDN Multisite – multisite for stretched cluster of SDN

SDN Gateway Performance Improvements

Modern AKS applications

6. Containers

Windows Server 2025 container support has been enhanced and is more flexible than Windows Server 2022. Host upgrades have been decoupled from container upgrades, making lifecycle management much more flexible for Microsoft Windows containers.

Performance has been improved along with image size reductions for containers. There is also improved application compatibility with Nano server with Features on Demand.

7. File Services with SMB Over QUIC & Security

SMB over QUIC is a huge improvement for remote file access technology. It enables encrypted file access over the internet without the need for a VPN. Windows Server 2025 addresses a critical need for more flexible and secure remote work solutions.

Features include:

SMB for telecommuters, mobile devices, cloud

No VPN required

Runs over standard port 443

Encryption is always on

Authenticated with TLS 1.3

Available in non-Azure versions, including Standard and Datacenter

It makes for new possibilities in how organizations manage remote access to their data. You can now offer a solution that is both highly secure and user-friendly. SMB over QUIC used to be only available with Windows Server Azure Edition. However, SMB over Quick has been brought into all editions of Windows Server 2025 (Standard and Datacenter) so that organizations of all sizes can benefit. These are only available in Windows Server 2022 Azure edition.

File services security improvements

There are many great security improvements, including:

SMB Signing – required by default and stop relay and attacker-in-the-middle, phishing

Auth Rate Limiter – throttle bad NTLM passwords by default

SMB Firewall rule hardening – No longer opens NETBIOS ports by default

SMB NTLM Disable Option – Granular control of NTLM from remote

SMB Dialect Control – Allow or refuse SMB 2 or SMB 3

8. Modern Server Experience

Winget is one of the coolest new tools that provides a “store-like” experience for Windows Server that is contained by default in Windows Server 2025 vs Windows Server 2022. Like we have been able to do with windows client machines running Windows 10 and 11, you can use winget to install tools and other utilities you need, including PowerShell.

You can easily install tools like Sysinternals (Process Monitor, Process Explorer, TCPmon, etc). You can even install apps like Microsoft SQL Server using winget. Also, there is OS Upgrades through Windows Updates and this is controllable through Group Policy.

Other miscellaneous modern server features

Arc integration wizards built-in

Wi-Fi support and Bluetooth support

Windows Server with Desktop Experience

New Subscription-based purchasing model.

Subscription model like Azure Stack HCI and SQL Server 2022

Conclusion

Windows Server 2025 is a great new operating system from Microsoft that includes all of the latest technologies and features that Microsoft has been previewing in Microsoft Azure for the last while. There are great new things in Windows Server 2025 compared with Windows Server 2022. It includes things like Hotpatching, new Active Directory scalability and performance improvements, including a new domain and forest functional level, new storage features, including NVMe performance improvements, networking enhancements, better container support and efficiencies, SMB over QUIC, and a modern Windows Server experience with tools like winget, OS upgrades through Windows Updates and others.

[ajansozgurceresmi]

Windows Server 2025, Microsoft’un en son sunucu işletim sistemidir. Bu rehberde, Windows Server 2025 download linkini ve öne çıkan özelliklerini bulabilirsiniz.

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Aperçu de Windows Server 2025

Aperçu de Windows Server 2025 ! Grandes annonces sur la nouvelle version de Windows Server...

Grandes annonces sur la nouvelle version de Windows Server Ce vendredi 26 Janvier, pour bien terminer la semaine c’était l’heure pour Microsoft de dévoiler le nom officiel de la nouvelle version de son OS destiné au serveur et vous allez être surpris ! Cette nouvelle monture se nommera… Windows Server 2025, une vraie surprise :). Il faut quand même noter que cette version Windows Server 2025…

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Secret Sleuth 2024: Sign up now! 🕵️‍♀️❄️

The Secret Sleuth Gift Exchange is an online, fanworks-only Secret Santa-style event for the CW Nancy Drew fandom!

What type of gifts can I make?

You will only need to make one gift, which should be a type of fanwork. Whatever type of gift you end up creating, please ensure it meets these parameters:

Fanfiction: 1500 word minimum, 10,000 words maximum. Completed works only.

Graphics/gifsets: 2 image minimum

Fanart: 1 panel minimum 

Playlist: 15 song minimum, 1 cover image, and a link to the playlist on Spotify or Apple Music

Fanvids/edits: A minimum of at least 1m30s of video content, across either 1 or 2 videos

What happens if I sign up?

To sign up, you will need to fill out this form confirming a) what gift types you can create, b) what gift types you would like to receive, and c) basic information about yourself, such as your social media handles and your likes/dislikes.

After sign-ups close, our mod team will create a match and send you all relevant information to help you create your gift. And don't worry: the mod team will only ever match you with someone who wants a gift type that you are capable of creating, so you don't need to worry about making something outside of your comfort zone.

You will then have ~7 weeks to create your gift, which should be posted on an assigned day over 1st-12th January 2025. If your giftee is on tumblr, we encourage you to send them anonymous messages to build excitement and ask them questions to help inspire you!

**Important: Please don't reveal who you are to your giftee until after your gift has been posted. It's called SECRET Sleuth for a reason!**

What's the timeline?

Sign-ups open: October 21st

Sign-ups close: November 4th

You'll receive your match by: November 11th

Check-in #1: December 2nd

Check-in #2: December 16th (for scheduling your posting slot!)

Gifts should be ready by: December 31st

Gifts will be posted over: January 1st-12th 2025

What's different from last year?

This year, we're extending the gift creation window and gifts will be posted later. Instead of posting over the holidays, gifts will be posted starting in January. We hope this will take the pressure off those people who have finals for school, who have to work over the holidays, or who are busy with travel and seeing family, etc. We've also tightened up the gift requirements to ensure everyone gets a gift of similar quality.

How do I sign up?

It's easy! Fill out the sign-up form here. The deadline to sign up is Monday November 4th 2024.

-- The Secret Sleuth Mods xoxo

Join the 'have a nace day' Discord server here / Follow us on Twitter/X here

[feligamifebruary]

Parisiens, Parisiennes, dragons and birds of all horizons,

Once again, Feligami February is just around the corner, and you may already be thinking of the wonderful creations you will bestow upon us throughout the month. It will be our pleasure to archive them on this blog, in case our timeline gets erased, and to answer your most burning questions below.

1. Tell me about the event!

As I’m sure you’ve guessed, Feligami February is a month-long fandom event dedicated to our favourite lovebirds. The principle is simple: to tickle your brains (and hearts!) with our prompts, so you are inspired to create the content you want to see on Tumblr on AO3.

When the time comes, simply upload your creation(s) to the #feligami february and #feligami february 2025 tags, and make sure to tag this blog: it will ensure we spot your work, as easily as Felix spotted the Peacock Miraculous under Gabriel’s tie.

2. What kinds of content/themes are welcome?

Any and all creative media are welcome: art, fics, AMVs, playlists, cosplays, moodboards, web weaves… as long as you do the creating yourself, and not through AI. The only thing we’ll be stealing this month is cursed jewellery.

While you are welcome to explore the themes of your choice, we reserve the right not to interact with smut and potentially triggering content based on our own comfort levels. Please make sure to tag your pieces appropriately to ensure the event remains fun and safe for everyone.

Poly ships are welcome, as long as they include Feligami of course!

3. I’m not sure I can cover all prompts/post on time. Can I still participate?

Of course! The entire point of this event is to have fun. Don’t overwork yourself.

4. I have an idea, but it doesn’t align with any of the prompts. Can I still post it?

Please do! The prompts are here for inspiration, not to suffocate you. Break your chains.

5. The creative process can be a bit lonely. Where can I meet other cool, motivated, brilliant Feligami creators like myself?

We have a Discord server, where you can hang out with fellow Feligami fans, share your ideas, and take a peek at the amazing content coming your way! Think of it as our own little window, on which we all draw hearts for each other.

If you’d like to join, please follow this link to the art room, where you will not be subjected to a creepy hallucination-based play.

Without further ado, we wish you all a lot of fun, inspiration, and bone-chilling musical numbers! 🎶

Full prompt list below! 🦚🐉

Week 1: Tropes 🪶

1. Once upon a time

2. Duel

3. Anti-hero

4. You & Me Against The World

5. Alternate Universe

6. Monster

7. Home

Week 2: Celebration 💎🌹

8. Diamonds

9. Flowers

10. First kiss

11. Reunion

12. Birthday

13. Family

14. Valentines

Week 3: Freedom 💍

15. FREE

16. Amok

17. Miraculous

18. Emotion

19. Pretension

20. Disobedience

21. Waltz

Week 4: Art 🎨

22. Watercolour

23. Stage fright

24. Representation

25. Journaling

26. Re-creation

27. A new world

28. Happy ending

[irisfixation]

she invites you to her home; says she's been working on a special gift for you, for being such a good friend. you accept, of course.

she's framed the gift almost like a museum; a series of works positioned down the hall. you step through, uncertainly.

a diorama. a painting. a short animation. each depicting a year of your life: 2021, 2022, 2023. beautifully rendered works - on the painting, various tapestry-like swathes depict critical moments and silly injokes from your accounts alike. on the diorama, you can see little models of you and your friends in your bedroom; the bedframe and flooring has been modeled and replicated out of cotton, plastic, and clay in remarkable detail.

...there's a little too much detail in all of the works. a message log never posted in any public servers. a few doodles upon the sides of frames that seem to call back images of a half-remembered nightmare.

you get to the 2025 art piece. it's a photograph; 'stylistically stark' is perhaps one phrase that could be used to describe it, though perhaps 'fucking dark' could also work.

you lean in, trying to angle so as to not block the limited light through the window, making out what you can of the shot. the outline of a silhouette, the geometric shapes of wire and chain... a hairstyle that - sure, looks a little different in length, but that's unmistakeably...

you realize with no small amount of concern that you don't remember how you found your way to her home.

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Change PCs a User can add to Domain with MachineAccountQuota

The MachineAccountQuota is an Active Directory (AD) attribute that controls the number of computer accounts that a non-administrative (standard) user can create and have it joined to the domain. Therefore, In this article, we shall discuss the steps on how to “Change PCs a User Can Add to Domain with MachineAccountQuota”. Please see How to configure a service account for Kerberos delegation,…

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New OSConfig PowerShell Security Tool in Windows Server 2025

New OSConfig PowerShell Security Tool in Windows Server 2025 @vexpert #vmwarecommunities #osconfig #windowsserver2025 #win2025 #desiredstateconfig #desiredstate #homelab #homeserver #powershell #security

In looking at Windows Server 2025 and security configuration settings, there is a new tool that Microsoft has introduced called OSConfig. In case you haven’t heard of it, this blog post is for you! We will take a look at this new OSConfig PowerShell security tool in Windows Server 2025 what OSConfig is exactly, how you install it, and how you use it. Table of contentsWhat is the OSConfig…

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2024 Simp Calendars

Folks enjoyed this last year, so this year I have remade my simp calendars for the 2024 year! There are a few different versions where each month displays the official emblems on suitor’s birthdays for Ikevamp, Ikepri, and then a combination calendar with both Ikevamp and Ikepri suitors. I've also added a set of blank ones without these emblems, in case you'd just want a plain one for whatever reason.

Each set has a blank spot where you can place any photo you’d like for each month, and a small section for notes.

They were made with my wallet in mind to be wary of when cyb*rd may drop birthday sale sets.

Here’s an example for how the Jan 2024 Ikevamp/Ikepri calendar download looks, as well as how it looks printed out:

user error (me) caused the side to be cut off when printing, please ignore that

Download Links: Ikevamp/Ikepri Calendar || Ikevamp Calendar || Ikepri Calendar || Blanks

Notes:

This time, I've included a 2025 version of January!! Please do not get it confused with the 2024 January!!

This was made for fun, and I am not an artist at all, so there may be small imperfections and boring design choices. I am sharing since friends and followers were interested.

The size of the calendars overall are made to print on a full sheet of regular printer paper (8.5x11). (I highly recommend using cardstock if you have the option!) You should be able to use your computer’s default printing option to print these off fine.

The size for the customized photo window is 1129x1241 pixels. You should be able to edit this in any program designed for editing photos, I even tested it and made sure you could put in a photo using MS Paint!

Keep in mind that when printing, some printers may skew the colors a bit and make them either lighter or darker.

Ikevamp also has no July birthdays, so there is just a blank calendar in the Ikevamp Only set. In the other sets, it will only show the Ikepri bday for that month.

For the jp spoiler characters in ikevamp and ikepri, their bdays are not listed. I don't have their emblems/crests so I could not add them.

If there is an issue like a misspelling or a suitor’s birthday being listed wrong, please let me know 🙏

If you enjoy this or end up using it, please consider reblogging or commenting! That way I can consider revisiting this in 2025 and trying to make improvements based on the interest.

Ikevamp Masterlist || Ikepri Masterlist || Ikevamp/Ikepri server (18+)

[emacs-unofficial]

Apparently Microsoft published an upgrade from Windows Server 2019-2022 to 2025 and mislabeled it as an security patch, causing update management solutions to push it immediately. Causing Issues with compatibility, downtime and licensing.

I'm so glad to be out of the windows world now.

[it-system-engineer]

Windows Server 2025 Kurulum: Adım Adım Kurulum Rehberi

Merhaba; bu yazımda sizlere Windows Server ile Kurulum: Adım Adım Kurulum Rehberi hazırladım. İlk işimiz Windows Server 2025 henüz Preview sürüm olarak indirmek olacak. İndirme işlemini aşağıdaki link üzerinden yapabilirsiniz. Download ISO Windows Server 2025 Kurulum işlemlerini VMware Workstation üzerinden yapacağım. Create virtual machine diyerek ilerliyorum. Windows Server işletim sistemi,…