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Upgrading to Windows Server 2025 from Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016, 2019, or 2022 using Media (ISO)

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Sep 23, 2025

Windows Server 2025 adoption is off to an incredibly fast start, and we are humbled by your response. A huge thank you to everyone from the Windows Server team. Windows Server 2025 introduces significant enhancements, including features like hot patching, Hyper-V GPU-P support, improvements in Active Directory, new security measures, increased storage performance, and greater scalability. Additionally, we've prioritized simplifying the upgrade process, making this release the most straightforward yet with support for N-4 upgrades.

About media-based upgrade to Windows Server 2025 With N-4 media based upgrades, you can upgrade your organization’s physical devices and virtual machines directly from Windows Server 2012R2, Window...
Published Sep 23, 2025
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