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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
