Nano Server
- You can now choose to install as Nano Server
- Support for DNS Server and IIS server roles
- Support for MPIO, VMM, SCOM, DSC push mode, DCB, Windows Server Installer and the WMI provider for Windows Update
- Recovery Console now supports repairing network configurations
- Windows PowerShell now comes with a module to make it easier to create new Nano Server images
- Update module to build Nano Server images with a better separation of physical host and guest virtual machine functionality and support for different Windows Server editions
- Improved Recovery Console with separation of inbound and outbound firewall rules
- You can now repair the configuration of WinRM in the Recovery Console
Hyper-V
- Hot add and remove of memory and Network Interface Controller
- Virtual machines are now resilient, meaning they can keep running while their cluster fabric may fail
- Rolling upgrade support
- Hyper-V Containers are now encapsulated in a light weight virtual machine
Containers
- Improved performance
- Network management for containers has been simplified
- Support for Windows containers on Windows 10
Networks
- PacketDirect on 40G
- NIC are converged across tenant and RDMA trafic
- You can now mirror and route traffic to new or existing virtual appliances
- Enables distributed firewalls and Network security groups similar to Azure
- You can now manage the entire Software-defined networking stack with System Center Virtual Machine Manager
- Docker can now be used to manage Windows Server container networking
Storage
- Virtual Machine Storage Path resiliency
- Storage replica support
- Storage Spaces Direct can now aggregate from Storage Spaces on other servers
Management
- PowerShell now has a Package Manager
- PowerShell Desired State Configuration
- Includes Windows Management Framework 5.0 April Preview and DSC Resource Kit
- You can now run PowerShell.exe locally on Nano Server
- New Local Users & Groups cmdlets to replace the GUI
- PowerShell debugging support
- Adds support for security logging and transcription and JEA in Nano Server
Security
- Application authentication support for OAuth and OpenID Connect
- Conditional control over access in the Active Directory Federation Services
- Host Guardian Service provides security between the cloud and guest OS layers
- Server-side support for HTTP/2
- You can now restrict users to have permissions for specific tasks only with Just Enough Administration
Features
- New "Encryption Supported" mode with more protections than for a normal virtual machine, but less than "Shielded" mode, while still supporting vTPM, disk encryption, Live Migration traffic encryption, and other features
- Full support for converting existing non-shielded Generation 2 virtual machines to shielded virtual machines, including automated disk encryption
- Shielded virtual machines are compatible with Hyper-V Replica
And further
- Full OpenGL support including Remote Desktop Services for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
- Improved time accuracy in physical and virtual machines
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