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No more Action packs in budget
I'm curious how much 'Linux' is in it. I'm also curious about its remote control skills and remote management. Maybe some new Hyper-V goodies?!
Mind sharing your thoughts on it? I have a few customers poking me about it [2016 Essentials mostly].Looked it over briefly. Waiting for R2 to deploy.
Yeah the changes are mostly around features that I don't plan on using right now (nano server, etc). I use VMware too so the Hyper-V stuff is irrelevant. Things like deduping larger than 64TB volumes would be nice but it's still not supported.The GUI is windows 10 themed, IIS 10 is out with this version windows server. It seems like most the of special bits are around the hyper-v features and cloud integration
Yeah the changes are mostly around features that I don't plan on using right now (nano server, etc). I use VMware too so the Hyper-V stuff is irrelevant. Things like deduping larger than 64TB volumes would be nice but it's still not supported.
Until features require the OS I'm not going to deploy it "just because". Once R2 hits it will be updated enough and have enough features to become relevant to me. I see 2016, right now, as an OS where if you have to ask if you need it, you don't need it. If you have very specific needs that require the changes in 2016 you would already know that it's coming and wouldn't have to ask.
2012R2 is a great OS.
Yeah, it hit general availability yesterday or day before that. Showing as well on Action Pack and others.Is it generally available? All I can find is TP5 which was fun to play with.
2016 is on a per-core licence. Makes things a little harder for home labbers and a hard sell at work.
I missing having a TechNet subscription. I didn't have to worry about licenses for testing & home use. Now I'm stuck with crappy eval copies if I want to even try anything newer than what I've got.
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FYI...2016 isn't listed yet.
I believe up to 8 cores per socket the cost is the same as a single socket under 2012 prices. Over 8 cores per socket and you pay more.2016 is on a per-core licence. Makes things a little harder for home labbers and a hard sell at work.
I believe up to 8 cores per socket the cost is the same as a single socket under 2012 prices. Over 8 cores per socket and you pay more.
Cores.Does it include threads or just physical cores? I guess either way I should be fine on my homelab. I didn't look into it much, but I heard that the licencing is like the Datacenter sku with 2012 R2 where you can run Hyper-V or ESXI and have as many installations of it as you want under the same licence as long as they are on the same host.
I'll tell you what I don't like - the same restrictions as Win 10. You can't disable updates, which is fine, I don't want to. But it it has the same insanely stupid update active hours restriction to only 12 hours, so you can't even choose a time when I want my 'server' to reboot - who the hell at MS thought this was acceptable.
I wonder if the windows update minitool works in 2016, it has a lot of tweaking capabilities. Ill try it out on a vm this week.
Gots to love the minitool! Yes indeed, updates are defaulted to Auto:It does & so does wsusoffline 10.8. The minitool can manipulate the system to not automatically install updates.
Yes! Works great!Can this tool work on Windows 10?
Heh heh that's funny! You'll laugh more when you hear that your server is used as a p2p hub and a xbox server...And they included Xbox apps! LOL FU MS
Looks like security patching out of the box is still a unlisted required. Also I guess we should thank microsoft for in including flash player in our server os http://imgur.com/a/OiEfV
I'll tell you what I don't like - the same restrictions as Win 10. You can't disable updates, which is fine, I don't want to. But it it has the same insanely stupid update active hours restriction to only 12 hours, so you can't even choose a time when I want my 'server' to reboot - who the hell at MS thought this was acceptable.
I know they will say - use GPO + WSUS, but this is still insane.
And they included Xbox apps! LOL FU MS
Heads up for anyone that has a Microsoft Imagine (used to be Dreamspark) account. Server 2016 is available for download.