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Windows Server 2025 delivers updates across security, storage, networking, virtualization, and lifecycle management. Find out what’s new since GA, including hotpatching, failover clustering improvements, native NVMe storage, networking protections, and identity enhancements. Learn which features to prioritize, key prerequisites, and where to begin enabling value today. Get a brief look ahead at Windows Server vNext and what it signals for future platform direction.

 

This session is part of Windows Server Summit 2026.

Pearl-Angeles
Updated May 15, 2026

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  • Heather_Poulsen's avatar
    Heather_Poulsen
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    May 11, 2026

    That’s a wrap! Thanks for joining us! We hope you enjoyed this session and Windows Server Summit 2026. We’ll continue to answer questions here in the chat through the end of the week. If you missed the live broadcast, don’t worry – you can watch it on demand.

    In fact, you can catch any of this week’s great Windows Server Summit 2026 sessions on demand by visiting https://aka.ms/WindowsServerSummit.

  • UlliF's avatar
    UlliF
    Copper Contributor
    May 11, 2026

    What about wuauserv in VNext. Are updates via WSUS still possible?

  • hanssm's avatar
    hanssm
    Copper Contributor
    May 11, 2026

    will hotpatching become available on onpremise ws2022 as well?

    • Artem Pronichkin's avatar
      Artem Pronichkin
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      May 11, 2026

      on Windows Server 2022, hotpatching is available as part of Windows Server Datacenter: Azure Edition. Which you can use on premises, if you deploy on Azure Local (formerly known as Azure Stack HCI.) Otherwise, there are currently no plans to enable new scenarios on Windows Server 2022. We encourage customers to upgrade to Windows Server 2022 to take advantage of all the newest security features and manageability improvements—with hotpatching being one of them. However, we keep closely monitoring customer feedback and requestes. So, if you have to stay on Windows Server 2022 for the time being, and would be interested in hotpatching, please keep this feedback coming. 

  • Heather_Poulsen's avatar
    Heather_Poulsen
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    May 11, 2026

    Welcome to Windows Server 2025 in practice: What’s new post‑GA and Windows Server Summit 2026! Have a question? Post here in the Comments so we can help. Let’s make this an active Q&A!