What's New

• Hybrid capabilities with Microsoft Azure: The cloud-ready operating system that boosts on-premises investments with hybrid capabilities.
• Advanced multilayer security: Help protect data and apps at virtually every level of your business, starting with the operating system.
• Remote working with enhanced security features: Empower workers through simplified deployment and management of remote apps and desktops.
• Modernized server infrastructure: Transform infrastructure and applications with flexible solutions like software-defined storage and networking and a modern app platform.

Hybrid Cloud and Security

Microsoft Windows Server 2022 features the Secured-core OS option, which uses

 Trusted Platform Module 2.0 and System Guard secure boot option to reduce risk

from firmware vulnerabilities and to help provide multilayer security across hardware,

 firmware, and the operating system. Windows Server 2022 supports AES-256-GCM

and AES-256-CCM cryptographic suites for SMB encryption as well as TLS 1.3 to help

 provide a communication channel between two endpoints with increased security features.

To provide east-west storage encryption, Windows Server 2022 failover clusters support

granular control of encrypting and signing intranode storage communications for cluster

shared volumes (CSV) and the storage bus layer (SBL). Improved Discrete Device

 Assignment (DDA) brings better security, virtual machine isolation, and performance for

 graphics-intensive workloads For improved security, Windows Defender ATP provides

 access to deep kernel and memory sensors bolstered by Azure’s massive security

 resources, helping to improve proactive security and anti-tampering to reduce exposure

 while enabling swift response actions on Windows Server 2022 endpoints

Modernized Server Infrastructure

Microsoft Windows Server 2022 features containers that allow for

 packaging apps with their dependencies and using operating system-level virtualization

to provide fast, fully isolated environments on a single system.

The Containers extension in Windows Admin Center enables the

containerization of apps, as well as troubleshooting

for containers running on a host, such as opening a console connection

to a container, checking logs, or monitoring resource consumption.

Microsoft drastically decreased the size of the Windows Server

core container base image by reducing duplicate payloads and removing

unused optional components.

Storage Migration

Microsoft Windows Server 2022 offers the Storage Migration Service, which provides a graphical tool that inventories data on Windows,

 Linux®, and NetApp CIFS servers and then transfers the data to newer servers or to Azure virtual machines, without reconfiguring applications or users.

 Capture and migrate legacy access permission settings along with the data for continued seamless functionality of your key business applications.

As an option, transfer the identity of the legacy server to the destination server so apps and users can access the data without changing links or paths