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Windows Server 2016 is the current server operating system from Microsoft.

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Whats new in Windows Server 2016

• Windows Server Containers: Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview now includes containers, which are an isolated, resource-controlled, and portable operating environment. They are an isolated place where an application can run without affecting the rest of the system or the system affecting the application.

• Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview includes new features that enable you to configure AD FS to authenticate users stored in Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directories. For more information, see Active Directory Federation Services Overview [Role/Tech Overview].

• A Hyper-V or Scale-out File Server failover cluster can now easily be upgraded without any downtime or need to build a new cluster with nodes that are running Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview.

• Windows Server Antimalware is installed and enabled by default in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview, but the user interface for Windows Server Antimalware is not installed. However, Windows Server Antimalware will update antimalware definitions and protect the computer without the user interface. If you need the user interface for Windows Server Antimalware, you can install it after the operating system installation by using the Add Roles and Features Wizard.

• For the Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview, the Remote Desktop Services team focused on improvements based on customer requests. We added support for OpenGL and OpenCL applications, and added MultiPoint Services as a new role in Windows Server.

• An update in storage quality of service now enables you to create storage QoS policies on a Scale-Out File Server and assign them to one or more virtual disks on Hyper-V virtual machines. Storage Replica is a new feature that enables synchronous replication between servers for disaster recovery, as well as stretching of a failover cluster for high availability..

• The underlying console host (Conhost.exe) has been updated in several ways, adding new and different functionality to the Windows command prompt, the Windows PowerShell prompt, and any other character-mode applications.

• Windows PowerShell 5.0.

◦ This preview release introduces a new feature that enables Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) for the Windows Server Gateway.

◦ Window DNS Client provides enhanced support for computers with more than one network interface.

◦ The DHCP Server role no longer supports Network Access Protection (NAP).

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Refreshing Windows DHCP Server reservation active/inactive state

I have a Windows DHCP server with a number of reservations. These all seem to work correctly (in that the addresses are correctly distributed) but, somehow, the Active/Inactive state of these has become corrupted in the Leases view on the DHCP…
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Strange DNS issues after dead DC - At my wits end

on May 17 I received report of a down server. Went to check it out, and was unable to power it on. We've had service on that machine several times at this point, and are quite frustrated with it, so I recommended getting something new with a valid…
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Can't access app / IIS external from VM but can access from within VM

We have an app / IIS server that runs on a Windows Server 2016 machine that we are able to access the app's functionality from within the VM(http://localhost) but we are not able to access the app from an external machine i.e.…
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How to show index.htm correctly like original index.html in Apache 2.4?

I am using Windows Server 2016, Apache httpd 2.4. I need upload static web content, start point is index.htm , not index.html . host file 127.0.0.1 help.numbooks.com My error It show directory listing, not render htm file correctly. My entry-point…
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Need help to block access ODBC Data Source Administrator for normal users in Windows AD via Group Policy

Users should not add/modify DSN in ODBC Data Source Administrator in Windows client, so we most likely need to block access to ODBC Data Source Administrator for users in Windows AD via Group Policy.
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Add SSL for web application without domain registered

I have a .NET winform application that connects to a remote database on a VPS (windows 2016 server), the connection is made through OpenVpn because it was necessary for certain functions to be used on the mobile phone as well, an extension was made…
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IIS10 giving back a 401 for a svc/wcf api

Hi we have a web application that communicates to another web application using an wcf/svc API. This seems to work ok, however everyday the wcf/svc API despite actioning the request and sending the correct information back, marks it as a 401 (we can…
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Windows Update Servers returning Content-Length: 0 for certain networks

Would anyone know why a Windows Update server (ie: download.windowsupdate.com) would give what looks like a bogus reply on certain networks? Taking the example of a patch for MSE I get the following header using a 4G mobile network (Vodafone). I've…
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Moving Server 2016 Datacentre to new chassis

We have a Dell R620 (256GB RAM, 2x3 SSD RAID 10) which has an older tower server as it's manual failover machine. Both are running Server 2016 DataCentre. Budget for a 2nd Dell R620 with matching specs to the first has been approved. Paying for a…
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CRL revocation check fails yet can retrieve file

I have an IIS server on a 2016 box (IIS v10 it says) which is being used to authenticate a unix server via a certificate. I have confirmed connectivity to the internal CRL server, I can telnet to it, I can download the file, and certutil comes with…
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Group policy error 1006 with error code 49

Here's the situation: A single Domain Controller existed, Windows 2008 SBS server with 2008 functional level. At some point 3-4 years ago, the whole domain was successfully transferred to a 2016 server (was added as a secondary server and all roles…
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How can I determine if AD LDS has been configured

I've inherited an environment, and am diagnosing some of the smaller issues I am coming across. One of these issues, is that an existing AD DC has also had the AD LDS role installed. I don't think it has been configured, which causes server manager…
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Interpreting my LDAP nslookup output

C:\Users\myuser1>nslookup Default Server: ns-xxx.xxxx.com Address: 1xx.xx.x.x > set types=all > _ldap._tcp Server: ns-xxx.xxxx.com Address: 1xx.xx.x.x Non-authoritative answer: _ldap._tcp.Tech.xyz.com SRV service location: priority…
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Windows Server: scheduled backup not visible in Scheduled Tasks?

I have set Windows Server 2016 Standard to perform a local backup to a usb drive on a nightly basis at 9pm. The last several runs failed because the destination was disconnected. I've since reconnected it and want to test to make sure it will resume…
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Licensing Windows Server 2016 for limited RDP use on a single workgroup server

I have a Windows Server 2016 Standard in a Workgroup and a Windows Server 2019 Standard (which should never need anything other than the allowed Admin users) that is going to be an Active Directory/Domain Controller in the very near future. Due to…
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