Windows Server on ARM64 (Insider Previews)

One potential ARM64 Server Scenario (as well as client Scenario) would be support for installing on M1, M2, M2 Max, M2 Ultra, etc Apple Silicone Chipsets. As Microsoft should always be interested in increasing market saturation and revenue, granted Microsoft has stated it has provided all the technical specifications to Apple in hopes that they would develop the rest of the code needed to run ARM64 based Microsoft OS's, Apple would have zero financial incentive for developing and deploying this additional needed code. It would be most useful in Network Architechtures that use both types of machines. Microsoft developing the rest of the needed code, would increase it's products' usefulness and thus increase both saturation and revenue. Whether anyone likes it or not, this looks to be a more frequent scenario for Network Engineers to have to deal with just based on the current market trends.

I volunteer to test this out, as Windows Server on ARM is a very important step towards making the Windows on ARM developer experience complete, which it can't be without local virtual machine labs. While Windows 11 on ARM can run within Hyper-V on ARM, the real deal is *Windows Server* for Active Directory and all the Windows Server roles (RD Session Host, RD Gateway, AD CS, IIS, SQL Server, you name it, it has to be Windows Server, not Windows Client).

I've noticed Windows Server ARM64 *updates* are apparently available in UUP, but the base images are missing, so it's not possible to reconstruct ISOs using common UUP media creation tools.

My primary goal is to port my collection of PowerShell scripts that leverage Hyper-V + PSDirect to build a local lab of VMs in Hyper-V for testing with Remote Desktop Manager: https://github.com/Devolutions/devolutions-labs

WinNAT is still missing on WoA, but it's being worked on. If we could have Windows Server on ARM images as an Insider Preview, I could at least port the script that creates a golden Windows Server image and start using it on my Windows Dev Kit, which has sufficient resources to run this lab.

And before someone suggests running labs in Azure - that's a different use case, one which costs a lot more than paying for electricity and network on a 800$ dev kit with 32GB of RAM and 512GB SSD. cloud-based labs are a complement, not a replacement, of local labs.

I would like to test Windows Server for ARM as well. Now WS2k25 is just around the corner, Microsoft should really release an ARM version for it as well.
Use cases: LAB scenarios, Production environments, Medical & Research
Another ARM OS from Microsoft will definitely increase its Market Share and it will allow customers to be more flexible

I would love to test out Windows Server Arm in our environment. We are one of the only TK-12 private schools in San Diego and we have a few projects we are working on. We have tested Windows 11 ARM on machines for our students and all runs great. We are also working on some projects for our student body where we virtualize Windows 11 ARM. We would like to try to virtualize Windows server arm on different machines for our students to test. Please include me on the list to test.

Interesting idea

The latest renewal for the Windows Server AZ-800/801 cert now makes reference to arm based Windows Server. Does that mean it will be released in Windows Server 2025?