Windows Server 2025 Standard

Product detailed description

License valid for 16Core, max. 2x CPU

Key features and improvements

Windows Server Hotpatching: This feature is now available to everyone and allows for faster and more seamless updates without the need to restart the system, minimizing downtime and increasing productivity.

Next-Generation Active Directory and SMB: With a focus on security and efficiency, Active Directory (AD) has seen significant upgrades, including a new functional level for domain and domain forest in AD, which ensures better organization and management of IT infrastructure components.

Mission Critical Data & Storage Solutions: These enhancements are tailored for high-demand environments and aim to provide robust and reliable data management and storage capabilities.

Hyper-V and AI Integration: Enhancements to Hyper-V technology combined with AI capabilities demonstrate a shift towards intelligent computing performance and focus on optimizing virtualization and computing resources.

Security improvements: Security remains a top priority with updates including TLS 1.3 support for LDAP over TLS, the new preferred method for changing passwords using AES encryption, and other significant security updates aimed at protecting against evolving cyber threats.

Performance improvements: The server will benefit from improvements to the Jet Blue engine with new domain controllers supporting 32KB page sizes and using 64-bit long ID values for improved performance. Additionally, it introduces NUMA support, which allows AD to scale beyond 64 cores and utilize CPUs across all processor groups, which was previously limited to group 0.