Presenting Windows Server 2025
Now generally accessible, Windows Server 2025 offers improved security, increased performance, and cloud adaptability.Windows Server 2025, which is now generally available, builds on its objective of offering a secure, high-performance Windows Server platform that can be tailored to meet the diverse needs of its customers. With this release, programs can be deployed on-premises, in a hybrid environment, or in the cloud.
Features of Windows Server 2025
Advanced security with multiple layers
With certain security features designed to safeguard your data and infrastructure, Windows Server 2025 stands out in an era where cybersecurity is crucial. Some crucial abilities are as follows:Active Directory (AD), the industry standard for authentication and identification, keeps improving with new security capabilities that help fortify your environment against evolving threats. Increased scalability, improved protocols, encryption, hardening, and more cryptographic support are some of these improvements.
Hardening of the server message block (SMB): SMB over QUIC is integrated into Windows Server 2025 to enable secure file sharing online. SMB security also includes stronger firewall defaults, protection against brute force attacks, and protections against relay, spoofing, and man-in-the-middle attacks.
Because AD manages passwords automatically, Delegate Managed Service Accounts (dMSA) don't require human password management like regular service accounts do. Through dMSAs, specific rights can be assigned to access domain resources, reducing security concerns and enhancing logging and visibility of service account activities.
Windows Server 2025 is a dependable and secure platform for your IT infrastructure that you should begin evaluating immediately due to these state-of-the-art security features.
New features in Windows Server 2025
Cloud agility everywhere
Windows Server 2025 introduces several advanced hybrid cloud technologies aimed at increasing operational flexibility and connectivity across a range of environments. Important characteristics include the following:2025 Windows Server Using hotpatching
Using Azure Arc to enable hotpatching: Modern security measures like backup and recovery and automatic software updates are built in for users that operate their entire organization in the cloud. With a new hotpatching subscription service enabled by Azure Arc, it is now bringing some of those benefits to Windows Server 2025 on-premises users. Hotpatching will reduce the number of reboots and operational disruptions experienced by customers. For Azure Arc-enabled Windows Server 2025 Standard or Datacenter installed on on-premises, multicloud, virtual, or physical servers, hotpatching offers security updates. There will be a monthly price for hotpatching, which is now under preview. The hotpatching feature is still free for virtual machines running Windows Server Datacenter Azure Edition.Simple Azure Arc onboarding: Windows Server 2025 leverages Azure Arc to bring Azure's powerful features directly to your datacenter. You can better manage and secure your multicloud and hybrid environments thanks to this connection, which also increases operational flexibility and expedites the onboarding process to Azure's hybrid features.
Features of software-defined networks (SDN) that are multisite: For seamless workload transfer across numerous locations, the software-defined network (SDN) multisite features offer native L2 and L3 connections in addition to unified network policy administration.
Unified network policy administration: By allowing centralized network policy management, this feature makes it easier to maintain consistent security and performance requirements across your hybrid cloud system.
Windows Server 2025 is a fantastic choice for companies looking to optimize their IT infrastructure and utilize both on-premises and cloud settings because of these hybrid cloud features.
Performance, scale, and AI
Windows Server 2025 is designed to perform the most complex workloads, including AI and machine learning. Here are some crucial abilities:
Hyper-V, AI, and machine learning: Windows Server 2025 offers a high-performance platform with live migration and high availability for both traditional apps and complex AI workloads. Additionally, it can analyze large data sets in dispersed situations and comes with built-in support for GPU partitioning.
NVMe storage performance: Windows Server 2025 provides up to 60% more storage IOPs than Windows Server 2022 on the same platforms. (Based on 4K randread with Diskpsd 2.2 and Kioxia CM7 SSd.)
Spaces for Storage Direct and storage flexibility: Windows Server has supported a range of storage alternatives, such as local, NAS, and SAN, for decades and continues to do so today. With the addition of Storage Replica Compression, thinly provisioned Storage Spaces, and Native ReFS deduplication and compression in all editions, Windows Server 2025 offers even more storage innovation.
Hyper-V scalability and performance: Windows Server 2025 introduces Azure's scalability and performance improvements. Windows Server 2025 Hyper-V virtual machine maximums:
The maximum amount of RAM that any virtual machine can have is 240 Terabytes.
* Requires Generation 2 virtual machines; maximum number of virtual processors per virtual machine: 2048 VPs* — (~8.5x previously)
Windows Server 2025 offers notable enhancements to Hyper-V, GPU integration, Storage Spaces Direct (software defined storage), software-defined networking, and clustering. Windows Server 2025 is a fantastic option for companies looking for a virtualization solution and for companies looking to leverage AI and machine learning while maintaining excellent speed and scalability thanks to these improvements.
System Center 2025 can now be accessed
Windows Server 2025 and System Center 2025 come together, giving you immediate access to scalable Windows Server administration. Consequently, companies are able to fully utilize Windows Server's most recent features. It is anticipated that this version would enhance how companies optimize their virtualized software-defined data centers and infrastructure with the goal of enhancing security, performance, and agility. Visit the System Center 2025 website to learn more.The cost of Windows Server 2025
There are two primary editions of Windows Server that you can choose from, depending on the size of your company, your virtualization requirements, and the characteristics of your datacenter.The standard edition
MSRP recommendation: $1,176- Perfect for environments that are physically present or only somewhat virtualized
- Core-based licensing framework
- Windows Server CAL Datacenter edition is required.
Datacenter edition
Perfect for cloud environments and highly virtualized datacenters
Windows Server CAL is required for the core-based licensing model.
2025 Windows Server Pay as you go
Users of Windows Server Standard who do not have infinite virtualization can scale up by adding extra virtual machines (VMs) to meet short-term seasonal demands or capacity spikes.- Connect to Azure Arc in order to transact.
- Become more agile
- Pay only for what you need.
Microsoft provides its customers with more functionality on Windows Server versions 2016, 2019, 2022, and 2025. Azure management capabilities like Azure Update Manager, Azure Policy Guest Configuration, Disaster Recovery, Change Tracking and Inventory, and more are available to customers who have a valid subscription or Windows Server Software Assurance. A large number of these services are free of charge. Watch this space for more product demos and information on how to use these new products at Microsoft Ignite.
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