Description
What's new
- Hybrid capabilities with Microsoft Azure™ – The cloud-ready operating system that powers on-premises investments with hybrid capabilities.
- Advanced multi-layer security: Help protect data and applications at virtually every level of your business, starting with the operating system.
- Remote work with enhanced security features: Empower workers through simplified deployment and management of remote desktops and applications.
- Modernized server infrastructure: Transform infrastructure and applications with flexible solutions like software-defined networking and storage and a modern application platform.
Hybrid cloud and security
Microsoft Windows Server 2022 introduces the Secure Core OS Option, which uses Trusted Platform Module 2.0 and the System Guard Secure Boot Option to reduce the risk of firmware vulnerabilities and help provide multi-layered security across hardware, firmware, and the operating system.
Windows Server 2022 supports the AES-256-GCM and AES-256-CCM cryptographic suites for SMB encryption, as well as TLS 1.3 to help provide a communication channel between two endpoints with increased security features.
To provide east-west storage encryption, Windows Server 2022 Failover Clustering supports granular control of intra-node storage communications encryption and signing for Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) and the Storage Bus Layer (SBL).
Enhanced Discrete Device Allocation (DDA) provides better security, VM isolation, and performance for graphics-intensive workloads
To enhance security, Windows Defender ATP provides access to deep kernel and memory sensors bolstered by Azure’s massive security resources, helping to improve proactive and anti-tampering security to reduce exposure while enabling rapid response actions on Windows Server 2022 endpoints.
Modernized server infrastructure
Microsoft Windows Server 2022 introduces containers that enable you to package applications with their dependencies and use operating system-level virtualization to provide fast, fully isolated environments on a single system.
The Containers extension in Windows Admin Center enables the creation of application containers, as well as troubleshooting for containers running on a host, such as opening a console connection to a container, checking logs, or monitoring resource consumption.
Microsoft has dramatically reduced the size of the Windows Server core container base image by reducing duplicate payloads and removing unused optional components.
Storage migration
Microsoft Windows Server 2022 offers the Storage Migration Service, which provides a graphical tool that inventories data on Windows, Linux, and NetApp CIFS servers and then transfers the data to newer servers or Azure virtual machines, without reconfiguring applications or users.
Capture and migrate legacy access permission settings along with data for seamless, continuous functionality of your key business applications. Optionally, transfer the identity from the legacy server to the target server so that applications and users can access data without changing links or paths.
