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Kurt Mackie
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Aug 08, 2017
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Windows Server 2016 Security and Editions

Are any Windows Server 2016 security features dependent on using the Datacenter edition? Alternatively, are there any specific licensing requirements to use security features?
  • Dean Wells's avatar
    Aug 08, 2017
    The short answer is, yes, there are certain features that require Datacenter edition to deploy in production with the appropriate scale and HA, shielded VMs being one such example. Software-defined networking (SDN) and micro-segmentation would be another, See https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/windows-server-pricing

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