Great news! Windows Server 2016 was launched yesterday on Microsoft Ignite conference. Windows Server 2016 is a next major release of Windows Server after 2012, and it’s packed with great new features and enhancements. Windows Server 2016, System Center 2016 and Windows Azure Pack allow service providers to build scalable, stable and cost efficient IaaS solutions for various customers. It is a great server OS to run traditional applications and datacenter infrastructure, and at the same time it delivers an unprecedented amount of innovation to help customers transition workloads to a more secure, efficient and agile cloud model.
RTM version of Windows Server 2016 now available for download as evaluation:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-2016
System Center 2016 RTM evaluation also became available:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-system-center-2016
SPLA partners will be able to download fully licensed software (installation media and product keys) at General Availability in mid-October. You can install Windows Server 2016 on hosts and inside guest VMs using AVMA and KMS keys, which are already available.
And the last thing – Azure Stack Technical Preview 2 is also available for download:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/azure-stack/try
Try it now in your own environment and feel the power of the latest and greatest Microsoft private cloud technologies. I will cover all these new products later, so stay tuned and don’t forget to subscribe!