Run business critical workloads in Azure, on-premises, and at the edge with Windows Server 2022
Hybrid capabilities with Azure
Extend your datacenter to Azure for
greater IT efciency and take advantage of
cloud innovation with your on-premises investments — while you enjoy improved
tools to help manage servers wherever they are.
• Extend Azure management and services on-premises and across clouds.
With Azure Arc, you can manage, secure, and govern Windows Server on-
premises, at the edge, or in multi-cloud environments from a single control
pane. You can also easily employ Azure management capabilities such as
Azure Policy, Azure Monitor, and Azure Defender for those servers. Connect to
Azure Arc with a few simple clicks in the Windows Admin Center management
tool, which is available natively in the Azure Portal.
• Seamlessly connect on-premises le servers to le servers in Azure. Take
advantage of le server enhancements such as SMB compression. SMB
compression improves application le transfer by compressing data while in
transit over a network.
• Manage Windows Server anywhere. Gain remote management capabilities
with Windows Admin Center, a tool admins love. Use in Azure or download at
no additional cost. Enhancements include an event viewer and gateway proxy
support for Azure connected scenarios.
Flexible application platform
Empower your developers and IT pros to create applications quickly without
worrying about the production environment. Windows Server 2022 offers
enhanced platform capabilities and tools that improve developer velocity
and increase support for key workloads. Run business-critical and large-scale
applications like SQL Server that require 48TB of memory and 2,048 logical cores
running on 64 physical sockets.
• Download Windows Container images faster. Reduced Windows Container
image size speeds download and improves performance. In addition, you
Managed Services Accounts (gMSA) without domain joining the container host.
Several other enhancements simplify the Windows Container experience with
Kubernetes, with support for host-process containers for node conguration,
IPv6, and consistent network policy implementation with Calico.
• Simplify .NET application deployment. Enhancements to the Windows
Admin Center tool enable you to easily containerize .NET applications, host
the containerized application on Azure Container Registry, and then deploy it
to other Azure services, including Azure Kubernetes Service, a fully managed
Kubernetes service.
Operate seamlessly
Take advantage of more than 200 Azure
services and unique capabilities, such
as Azure Automanage, Windows Admin
Center in Azure, Azure Arc–enabled
servers, and Azure App Service to boost
Azure Automanage
best-practice Azure services, enhancing
reliability, security, and management.
Azure Automanage automatically applies
predened best practice conguration
proles or customized conguration
proles to machines both inside and
outside of Azure. Simply point, click, set,
and forget. In addition, quickly deploy
security updates without having to reboot,
Core VMs; and easily migrate workloads
to Azure by extending on-premises IP
subnets and preserving the original
private IP addresses.
Windows Admin Center in Azure
tool in the Azure Portal, enabling
granular management, conguration,
troubleshooting, and maintenance
functionality for Azure virtual machines.
Windows Containers in App Service
Deploy web applications, along with any
dependencies — such as custom fonts,
— in a Windows Container on Azure
App Service.
Take the next steps
Evaluate Windows Server 2022
http://aka.ms/TryWS2022
Download Windows Admin Center
http://aka.ms/WindowsAdminCenter
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