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Windows Server has powered a generation of organizations, from small businesses to large
enterprises. No matter what your role in IT, you can be guaranteed you that have touched Windows
Server at some point in your career or at very least you have seen it from afar! This book introduces
you to Windows Server 2016, which is the next version of Windows Server. No matter what your area
of expertise, this book will introduce you to the latest developments in Windows Server 2016.
Each chapter has been written by either field experts or members of the product group, giving you the
latest information on every improvement or new feature that is included in this version of Windows
Server. This information will help you to prepare for Windows Server 2016 and give you the means to
develop and design a path to introduce Windows Server 2016 into your environment and take full
advantage of what is to come. This book is being written at a time when the product is still evolving
and it should be noted that things might change or not appear in the final version of Windows Server
2016 when released. All guidance in the chapters is meant to be tried and evaluated in a test
environment; you should not implement it in a production environment.
This book assumes that you are familiar with key concepts surrounding Windows Server (i.e., Microsoft
Hyper-V, Networking, and Storage) as well as cloud technologies such as Microsoft Azure. In this
book, we cover a variety of concepts irelated to the technology and present scenarios with a customer
focus, but it is not intended as a how-to or design manual. You can use other sources, including the
online Microsoft resources, to stay up to date with the latest developments on the roles and features
of Windows Server 2016. The online resources will also contain the latest how-to procedures and
information about designing a Windows Server 2016 infrastructure for your business.
Acknowledgments
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David Holladay
Mitch Tulloch
Ned Pyle
Claus Joergensen
Matt Garson
John Marlin
Robert Mitchell
Deepak Srivastava
Shababir Ahmed
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Ritesh Modi
Jason M. Anderson
Schumann Ge
Yuri Diogenes
David Branscome
Shabbir Ahmed
Ramnish Singh
Andrew Mason
Neil Peterson
The staff at Microsoft Press who makes these titles possible!
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C H A P T E R
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Introduction
to Microsoft
Windows Server
2016
Whether you are a small- to mid-size business, a large enterprise, or a
cloud service provider, the demand on what IT must deliver is a rapidly
changing landscape. Customers want to access their applications in a
variety of ways and be confident that they can complete their daily tasks in
a secure and efficient manner. They simply are not concerned about how
IT infrastructures are made up and the challenges that team’s supporting
these environments experience a day-to-day basis.
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If you run an IT environment today, how do you meet the aforementioned challenges? Can your
applications and infrastructure meet the demands placed on it? Can you meet the rate of innovation
the cloud offers or the agility and speed of delivery? In these respects, there are an increasing number
of challenges facing the on-premises infrastructure.
However, not everyone is ready to move to the cloud, and there will be many cases in which you can’t
because of a multitude of reasons; for example, contractual commitments that stipulate data can’t
move to the cloud.
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Even if you can’t or don’t want to move to the cloud today, it is still important that you begin the
journey to modernize your infrastructure so that you can take advantage of all the developments and
advances that Microsoft has made gleaned from its cloud experience and incorporated into Windows
Server 2016.
Cloud ready with Windows Server 2016
Simply put, Windows Server 2016 is the cloud-ready operating system (OS) that delivers new layers of
security and Microsoft Azure-inspired innovation for the applications and infrastructure that power
your business.
For this release, Microsoft has spent a considerable amount of time reaching out to customers and
gathering feedback of what is important and how it can meet the future needs for customer’s
infrastructures. In this light, Microsoft categorized the feedback into three main pillars, which you can
see listed in Figure 1-1. The figure also shows the core recurring topics customers wanted to address
that has essentially driven the innovative features that appear in Windows Server 2016 today.
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