Windows Server 2016 editions - Paiet/Tech-Journal-for-Everything GitHub Wiki

Determine appropriate Windows Server 2016 editions per workloads

• 64 bit only OS
• Slides
• Comparison of Standard and Datacenter editions of Windows Server 2016

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/storageserver/2016/10/14/announcing-windows-storage-server-2016/

• Multipoint Services https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/multipoint-services/introducing-multipoint-services

** 2012/R2 vs 2016** https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/windows-server-comparison

Determine Windows Server 2016 installation requirements https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/system-requirements

• Core with IIS is 32GB adding GUI increases approx 4GB
• If using more than 16GM of RAM additional disk space is reccommended to accomodate lager pagefile, hibernation and dump files. Note: VM Setup will fail if only 512 MB: To resolve:
• increase to at least 800 MB RAM
• Or... use Diskpart.exe to create an install partition Additional Recommendations:
• UEFI 2.3.1c for Secure Boot
• TPM 2.0