Introducing Windows Server 2016

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Chapter 1: The software-defined datacenter

• Delivering agile IT
• Understanding the Microsoft Cloud Platform
• Facilitating enterprise mobility
• Creating the Internet of Your Things
• Providing the right environment for application innovation
• Unlocking insights on any data
• Transforming the datacenter
• How to transform your datacenter
• Building a software-defined foundation
• What makes it possible
• Automating and securing your infrastructure
• Extending to the cloud on demand

Chapter 2: Compute

• Failover Clustering improvements
• Creating a cloud witness by using Azure
• Shared VHDX improvements
• Improved cluster logs
• Active memory dump
• Network name diagnostics
• Cluster Operating System Rolling Upgrade
• Hyper-V improvements
• VM groups
• True VM mobility
• VM configuration version
• New configuration file format
• Production checkpoints
• Hot add and hot remove for network adapters and memory
• MultiPoint Services
• Windows MultiPoint Server
• Scenario for better understanding
• MultiPoint Services role in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview
• MultiPoint Manager and MultiPoint Dashboard

Chapter 3: Storage

• Storage Replica
• Synchronous replication
• Asynchronous replication
• Implementation-specific details
• Requirements
• Recommendations
• Scenarios
• Storage Replica in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview
• Storage Spaces Direct
• Implementation details
• Improved scalability
• Storage Spaces optimized pool
• Failure scenarios
• Learn more
• Deduplication
• Storage Quality of Service

Chapter 4: Networking

• Software-defined network
• Network virtualization
• Network Controller
• RAS Gateway Multitenant BGP router
• Software Load Balancing
• Datacenter firewall
• Web Application Proxy
• Publishing capability enhancements
• Publishing Exchange Server 2013
• Web Application Proxy troubleshooting
• Collecting information about your environment
• Using the Microsoft Exchange Best Practices Analyzer
• Certificate issues
• Configuration data in AD FS is inconsistent or corrupt
• Supporting non-SPI-capable clients

Chapter 5: Security

• Shielded VMs
• Threat-resistant technologies
• Control Flow Guard
• Device Guard (Code Integrity)
• Credential Guard
• Windows Defender
• Threat detection technologies
• Securing privileged access
• Just In Time and Just Enough Administration
• A strategy for securing privileged access
• Short-term plan
• Medium-term plan
• Long-term plan

Chapter 6: App Plat

• Nano Server
• Understanding Nano Server
• Deploying Nano Server
• Specializing Nano Server
• Remotely managing Nano Server
• Containers
• What is a container?
• Why use containers?
• Windows Server containers versus Hyper-V containers
• What about Docker?

Chapter 7: Systems management

• Windows PowerShell improvements
• DSC Local Configuration Manager
• New methods in LCM.
• DSC partial configurations
• Setting up the LCM Meta Configuration
• Authoring the configurations
• Deploying the configurations
• PowershellGet and NuGet
• System Center 2016
• Operations Management Suite
• About the author
• About the contributors