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- Jeff-Woolsey
Microsoft
Thanks for the question! As Windows Server 2012/2012R2 End of Support is 7 months away, we're getting a TON of questions about Windows Server 2022. This thread is full of links for you.
Windows Server 2022 documentation here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/whats-new-in-windows-server-2022
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Windows Server comparison that includes Windows Server 2022:
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Windows Server 2022 Datasheet
https://t.co/Ge5ZL6xaeg----
Windows Server 2022 includes a bunch of cool under-the-hood improvements for modernizing your apps. Here are some examples…
Secured-core Server
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/security/secured-core-server----
TLS 1.3: Enabled by default on Windows Server 2022
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2020/08/20/taking-transport-layer-security-tls-to-the-next-level-with-tls-1-3/----
TLS Cipher Suites in Windows Server 2022
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/secauthn/tls-cipher-suites-in-windows-server-2022----
TLS and .NET
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/network-programming/tls----
SMB Encryption
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/file-server/smb-security----
SMB Compression
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/file-server/smb-compression?tabs=powershell%2Crobocopy%2Cgroup-policy----
Storage Migration Improvements
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-migration-service/overview----
Single Node Caching/Tiering
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Hyper-V: Nested AMD Support
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/user-guide/nested-virtualization
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Hyper-V: TCP HyStart++ Enabled. Automatically provides smoother network data flow with better performance.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/whats-new-in-windows-server-2022
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Hyper-V: Enhanced RSC Support
Hyper-V Virtual Switches coalesce packets & process as one larger segment. Improves performance to external traffic & between VMs while reducing CPU use.https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/whats-new-in-windows-server-2022
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ReFS File Level Snapshots.
ReFS now includes the ability to snapshot files using a quick metadata operation. Especially useful for Hyper-V VHD/VHDX files. ReFS snapshots are unique in that they take a constant time irrespective of file size.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/whats-new-in-windows-server-2022
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Scalability improvements. Support for up to 48 TB of RAM and 2048 logical processors. (Not a typo. 48 TERABYTES of RAM)
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Massive UDP perf improvements. Support for UDP Segmentation Offload and UDP Receive Side Coalescing.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/whats-new-in-windows-server-2022
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Dozens of Container improvements
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/about/whats-new-ws2022-containers
