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Ten reasons you’ll love Windows Server 2016 #5: Software-defined storage 

This is the fifth post in the “Ten Reasons You’ll Love Windows Server 2016” videos by Matt McSpirit, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft. In this episode Matt interviews Elden Christensen, a Principal Program Manager in the Windows Server product group. Elden and his team bring the high availability and file services to the Windows Server platform.

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Ten reasons you’ll love Windows Server 2016 #3: Server management tools 

Manage Windows Server from anywhere This is the third post in the “Ten Reasons You’ll Love Windows Server 2016” video series by Matt McSpirit, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft. Today, Matt interviews Samuel Li, Senior Program Manager on the Windows Server Platform and Tools team, about the new Server management tools.

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Ten reasons you’ll love Windows Server 2016 #2: Active Directory and Identity 

More on-premises control over user and administrator access for a cloud-first, mobile-first world This is the second post in the “Ten Reasons you’ll love Windows Server 2016” video series by Matt McSpirit, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft. Today, he introduces us to Samuel Devasahayam, Principal Group Program Manager on the Microsoft Identity team.

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Clarifying our hardware platform support 

Over the past several weeks, the Windows Server team has received a number of inquiries regarding certification and support for certain hardware platforms and questioning as to any change in policy we may have in this regard.

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Manage your Windows Server from anywhere 

We are pleased to announce the public preview of Server Management tools, a set of web-based remote GUI tools that can be used to manage installations of Windows Server 2016 (now in technical preview).

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Exploring Nano Server for Windows Server 2016 

If you haven’t yet tried Windows Server 2016, today we hope to give you a few more reasons to try out our latest technical preview. On this week’s Microsoft Mechanics show, we feature updates to Nano Server with Jeffrey Snover, Chief Architect, Enterprise Cloud.

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Zero to SDN in under five minutes 

Deploy a cloud application quickly with the new Microsoft SDN stack You might have seen this blog post recently published on common data center challenges. In that article, Ravi talked about the challenges surrounding deployment, flexibility, resiliency, and security, and how our Software Defined Networking (SDN) helps you solves those challenges.

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Protecting your datacenter and cloud: November update 

This post was authored by the Windows Server Security and Assurance Team Six months ago, in a previous blog post “Protecting your datacenter and cloud from emerging threats” we introduced our strategy and direction on how Microsoft can help customers protect their datacenter and private cloud from emerging threats.