Description

Windows Server Standard 2022 – key features

1. Secured-Core Server: Enhances security and minimizes risks associated with advanced malicious software.
2. Server Message Block (SMB) Security Enhancements: Improves the security of Server Message Block protocols.
3. Secured Connectivity: Ensures faster and more secure encrypted HTTPS connections, along with standard AES-256 encryption.
4. SMB Compression: Compresses files during transmission, reducing network bandwidth consumption and transfer time.
5. Improved Application Collaboration: Provides a flexible platform for better application collaboration.
6. More Efficient Disk Space Management: Offers easier and more efficient disk space management.

Windows Server Standard 2022 – detailed description

Windows Server Standard 2022 also includes many other incredibly useful features:

1. Azure Hybrid Features
   • Backup and Restore: Create backups and restore them as needed.
   • Local Capacity Expansion: Synchronize file servers with the cloud, migrate storage to virtual machines, achieve quorum in a failover cluster, and connect on-premises servers to a virtual network using a network adapter.
   • Hyper-V Virtual Machine Protection.
   • File Server Synchronization with the Cloud.
   • Centralized OS Update Management.
   • Uniform Look for Azure VMs.
2. Data Storage and Processing.
3. Predictive Analysis on Large Data Sets: Helps reduce operational costs in the enterprise.
4. Desktop Virtualization: Enables fast and secure remote work from anywhere.
5. Data, Application, and Virtual Machine Security: Offers advanced multi-layered built-in protection.
6. New Secured-Core Server and Secured Connectivity Features: Ensuring comprehensive security and faster encrypted connections.
7. Modern Windows Admin Center: Facilitates efficient management of server environments through an updated Server Manager application and Microsoft Management Console within a browser-based interface.
8. Synchronous or Asynchronous Data Replication on Virtual Machines.
9. Rapid and Simplified Development of Native Cloud Applications: Combines Windows Server, Nano Server, and Azure Service Fabric for advanced application development.
10. Enhanced GPU Virtualization Technology.

Windows 2022 Standard also includes Host Protection, support for 2 OSE* container environments, Hyper-V functionality, and an unlimited number of Windows Server containers. Software licensing is dependent on the number of cores.

Windows Server Standard 2022 – system requirements

• Processor: 64-bit, 1.4 GHz x64-compatible with support for NX and DEP, CMPXCHG16b, LAHF/SAHF, and PrefetchW.
• RAM: Minimum 512 MB (2 GB required for the Desktop Experience installation).
• Hard Disk Space: At least 32 GB for Server Core installation.
• Network: Ethernet adapter with at least 1 Gbps bandwidth, compliant with PCI-Express architecture.
• Additional requirements: UEFI 2.3.1c-based system and firmware that supports secure boot; Trusted Platform Module; A graphics device and monitor that supports Super VGA (1024 x 768) or higher resolution.
• Some features, such as BitLocker Drive Encryption, require a Trusted Platform Module (TPM). If your computer uses a TPM, it must meet the following requirements:

• Hardware-based TPMs must implement version 2.0 of the TPM specification.
• TPMs that implement version 2.0 must have an EK certificate that is pre-provided to the TPM by the hardware manufacturer or can be downloaded by the device at first boot.
• TPMs that implement version 2.0 must ship with SHA-256 PCR banks and implement PCR 0 through 23 for SHA-256. It is acceptable to ship TPMs with a switchable PCR bank that can be used for both SHA-1 and SHA-256 measurements.
• The UEFI option to disable the TPM is not required.