Estimate shipping
Description
Overview
Microsoft Windows Server 2025 2‑core Standard Additional License WW SW
Features
Maximize your Microsoft Windows Server 2025
What's New
- Hotpatch: Security updates with no reboot (available for Azure Arc-enabled servers) and multi-layered security; secured-core server technology: Trusted Platform Module 2.0 and systemguard.
- Active Directory (AD): LDAP support for TLS 1.3 helps remove obsolete cryptographic algorithms; Kerberos support for AES SHA256/384; new domain controllers increased to 32K pages; added RootDSE mod.
- WAC for hybrid and on-premises server management; containers extension in WAC; decreased size of WS core container base; simplify containerizing .NET, ASP.Net, Web Deploy, and MSI applications.
- Hyper-V: GPU partitioning (GPU-P) allows to share a GPU across multiple VMs; support for live migration and failover clustering; VM scalability: Support for 240 TB of RAM; support for 2048 LPs.
- Storage Migration Services: Optimized NVMe; lower CPU utilization; software-defined storage enhancements: Resilient File System (ReFS)-optimized deduplication and compression.
- Seamless management of hybrid server environments, storage migration, system insights, protecting VMs, synchronizing file servers, and providing enhanced Active Directory authentication.
Advanced Security
- For hybrid use cases when using Microsoft Windows Server 2025, both on-premises and on Azure: Get crucial updates with less downtime. Hotpatching allows many security updates to be applied without a need to reboot. Add-on service is available for Azure Arc-enabled servers.
- Multi-layered security; secured-core server technology: Trusted Platform Module 2.0 and system guard to boot up Windows Server more securely and minimize risk from firmware vulnerabilities.
- Windows Defender Credential Guard—virtualization-based security. Windows Defender Exploit Guard offers a set of host intrusion prevention capabilities. Integrated Windows Defender ATP gives access to deep kernel and memory sensors.
- Virtualization-based security (VBS) enclaves enable isolation of sensitive workloads; VBS key protection to protect cryptographic keys.
- Active Directory: LDAP support for TLS 1.3 helps remove obsolete cryptographic algorithms; Kerberos support AES SHA256/384; new domain controllers increased to 32K pages; added RootDSE mod; Microsoft Windows Server 2025 supports AES-256-GCM and AES-256-CCM cryptographic suites for SMB encryption.
Hybrid Cloud Capabilities
- WAC: Hybrid and on-premises server management at no additional cost.
- Azure hybrid services tool in WAC and Azure Monitor; seamless management of hybrid server environments, storage migration, system insights (predictive analytics capabilities native to Windows Server), protecting VMs and synchronizing file servers.
- For hybrid use cases when using Microsoft Windows Server 2025 both on-premises and on Azure: Azure Monitor can collect data directly from physical or virtual Windows computers into a Log Analytics workspace for detailed analysis and correlation.
High-Performance Infrastructure
- Microsoft Windows Server 2025 delivers a modern operating system that enables enhanced virtual machine memory, expanded processor and device support, superior congestion control, and improvements in encryption and networking.
- Storage Migration Service provides a graphical tool that inventories data on Windows, Linux®, and NetApp CIFS servers and then transfers the data to newer servers or to Azure virtual machines.
- The containers extension in WAC enables the containerization of apps as well as troubleshooting for containers running on a host, such as opening a console connection to a container, checking logs, monitoring resource consumption, and more.
- Microsoft drastically decreased the size of the Windows Server core container base image by reducing duplicate payloads and removing unused optional components.
- Software-defined storage enhancements: ReFS-optimized deduplication and compression (for active workloads like VMs); save up to 60% of storage for file servers, and up to 90% of storage for VHD/ISO/backups; storage replica compression is now available in all editions of Windows Server.
Microsoft Windows Server 2025 2‑core Standard Additional License WW SW
Detailed product descriptionMicrosoft Windows Server 2025 2-core Standard Additional License WW SW
Length of supportPerpetual License