One of the most important infrastructure features Microsoft released with the recent Windows Server 2022 is HTTP/3. Since hitting the ‘General Availability’ milestone this past September, the Windows Server team has partnered with the Microsoft 365 team in starting a phased upgrade of the front-end Exchange Online servers with Windows Server 2022. Microsoft started with…
It’s been a relatively quiet month for Windows as Microsoft gets down to finalizing Windows 11 for an October 5th release. What you need to know Windows 11 is faster than Windows 10 New Surface hardware is announced Passwordless sign-in comes to Microsoft consumer accounts Windows Server 2022 reaches general availability Windows 11 is faster…
Microsoft recently announced that their Ignite (online only) conference will be running again on November 2-4. That means we are approaching peak season for announcements, new public preview releases, and general availability. “Q3” in announcements and roadmaps will often mean between early September and maybe the third week of October – a code freeze will…
In this post, I will show you how to join Windows Server 2022 Core to an Active Directory (AD) domain. So, if you are you looking for more wholesome Windows Server 2022 goodness, you came to the right place! Joining Windows Server Core to an Active Directory domain lets you manage the security of the…
Welcome to Part 3 of my Windows Server 2022 Series. This series of posts has chronicled the upgrade of my Microsoft Hyper-V lab. I have a number of servers running various roles, including Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS), fileservers, SQL Server, SharePoint Server, etc. I’m upgrading all of them to Microsoft’s latest Long Term Servicing…
Welcome to Part 2 of my Windows Server 2022 Series. I am progressing through my Hyper-V lab, upgrading all the Windows Server 2016 and 2019 servers, running various roles, to Windows Server 2022. In my first post, I upgraded my first domain controller (DC), WS16-DC1, running Windows Server 2016 to Windows Server 2022. Yes, taboo…
Back in June this year, Microsoft sent the final Windows Server 2022 bits to OEMs for testing. And without so much as an official announcement, Microsoft has made the next version of its server product available to mainstream users. Windows Server 2022 will only be available on the Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC); unlike recent versions…
Microsoft has announced that it is dropping Semi-Annual Channel (SAC) releases for Windows Server. Starting with Windows Server 2022 there will be only one release on the Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC). It will get 10 years’ support (five years mainstream, and five years extended). Microsoft says that SAC releases in previous versions of Windows Server…
July and August are usually a quiet time at Microsoft. But this year, there’s a little more buzz than usual as Microsoft continues to prepare Windows 11 for a fall release. Microsoft Store in Windows 11 will not automatically update all Win32 apps In a support document for developers, Microsoft revealed that Win32 apps using…
Telnet is a client/server protocol used for accessing remote servers. As the name might suggest, Telnet was originally used on terminals that only required a keyboard because everything on the screen was displayed in text, usually from a mainframe computer. The terminal used Telnet to remotely log in to a mainframe server or other computer….