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Identity and Access New features in Identity improve the ability for organizations to secure Active Directory environments and help them migrate to cloud-only deployments and hybrid deployments, where some applications and services are hosted in the cloud and others are hosted on premises. Active Directory Certificate Services Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) in Windows Server 2016 increases support for TPM key attestation: You can now use Smart Card KSP for key attestation, and devices that are not joined to the domain can now use NDES enrollment to get certificates that can be attested for keys being in a TPM. Active Directory Domain Services Active Directory Domain Services includes improvements to help organizations secure Active Directory environments and provide better identity management experiences for both corporate and personal devices. For more information, see What’s new in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) in Windows Server 2016. Active D...

Hybrid Cloud Server Core App Compatibility Feature on Demand Server Core App Compatibility Feature on Demand (FOD) significantly improves the app compatibility by including a subset of binaries and components from Windows Server with the Desktop Experience. Server Core is kept it as lean as possible by not adding the Windows Server Desktop Experience graphical environment itself, increasing the functionality and compatibility. This optional feature on demand is available on a separate ISO and can be added to Windows Server Core installations and images only, using DISM. Windows Deployment Services (WDS) Transport Server role added to Server Core Transport Server contains only the core networking parts of WDS. You can now use Server Core with the Transport Server role to create multicast namespaces that transmit data (including operating system images) from a standalone server. You can also use it if you want to have a PXE server that allows clients to PXE boot and download...

MinRole MinRole is a new feature in SharePoint Server 2016 that allows a SharePoint farm administrator to define each server's role in a farm topology. Mobile experience SharePoint Server 2016 offers an improved mobile navigation experience. The November 2016 Public Update for SharePoint Server 2016 (Feature Pack 1) offers seven new features for SharePoint Server 2016. New controls for working with OneDrive for Business SharePoint Server 2016 provides controls at the top of your personal document folders that make common tasks in OneDrive for Business more accessible. New Recycle Bin in OneDrive and Team sites SharePoint Server 2016 adds a link for the Recycle Bin in the left navigation area of the OneDrive and Team sites. Open Document Format (ODF) SharePoint Server 2016 adds support for Open Document Format (ODF) files to use in document library templates. Project Server New Project Server features are available in SharePoint Server 2016. ReFS fil...

New microblogging features If you’re familiar with popular social networking sites, you’ll feel right at home using the new microblogging features, which allow you to engage in conversations in your Newsfeed. With microblogging, you can: Post to a newsfeed on a team site, shared with a select group of people. Refer to other people in your posts using @mention. People are notified when they are mentioned in a post. You can quickly view all posts in which others have mentioned you. Include tags in newsfeed posts. You can quickly view all conversations that reference that tag. Share entire conversations by sending a link. “Like” posts in your newsfeed. People following you see posts you “liked” in their newsfeeds. You can use the Likes view to find these posts easily later. Include pictures, videos, links to documents, and web URLs in your posts. You can modify web URLs to display as text. More ways to share documents or sites This release provides ...

What’s new when upgrading from Exchange 2016 to Exchange 2019? Security Windows Server Core support: Running Exchange on a Windows deployment with less surface area means less attack surface area and fewer components to service. Block external access to Exchange admin center (EAC) and the Exchange Management Shell: You can use Client Access Rules to only allow administration of Exchange from the internal network instead of using complex network and firewall rules. TLS 1.2 is the only version that’s enabled by default: Exchange Server 2019 includes important changes to improve the security of client and server connections. The default configuration for encryption will enable TLS 1.2 only and disable support for older algorithms (namely, DES, 3DES, RC2, RC4 and MD5). It will also configure elliptic curve key exchange algorithms with priority over non-elliptic curve algorithms. In Exchange Server 2016 and later, all cryptography settings are inherited from the configuration sp...

Exchange Server 2016 introduced innovations through changes in the architecture. These changes have brought more advantages and features to the users, such as: 1. Faster failover and failure isolation Exchange 2016 uses Database Availability Group (DAG) where they split up the process for each database so they can isolate issue on a single database. DAG still relies on Windows Server clustering and continuous replication, but Exchange 2016 has reduced the time required for failover due to improvements in transaction log code and on the passive database. All monitoring and recovery features are now more than just to keep up the component uptime, instead, it focuses on the user experience by alerting the administrator to proactively restore services or with the automatic server failover. 2. Outlook on the web and Outlook app feature enhancement Other than the features that have been mentioned above, Outlook has improved the way it handles user activities for the best of th...

Industry-leading performance and security with SQL Server 2019 Regardless of where your data is stored, query and analyze it with the data platform known for performance, security, and availability. Simple pricing metrics Pay by processing power for mission-critical applications as well as business intelligence. Add self-service BI on a per user basis. Flexibility and innovation Take advantage of cloud-optimized licensing with the ability to license VMs, plus the flexibility to move from server to server, to hosters, or to the cloud—all on the operating system of your choice. Industry-leading TCO Get outstanding value at any scale compared to other competing solutions. Fail-over servers for disaster recovery Allows customers to install and run passive SQL Server 2019 instances in a separate OSE or server for disaster recovery in anticipation of a failover event. Fail-Over servers for disaster recovery in Azure Allows customers to install and run passive SQL Serve...

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