Windows Server 2016

As your company grows and expands, the needs of its employees grow and expand along with it. Employees may be productive from a home office, for example, or they need to travel a great distance for a business meeting and need to have access to certain files and applications while they are out of the office. No matter the reason, having a server capable of remote desktop options can only be a boon for your company and your users. Microsoft offers one of the finest versions of Remote Desktop Services on the market, and with the recent release of the Microsoft Windows Server 2016, the Remote Desktop Service is even better than ever. Easily access the files you need from anywhere, deliver virtualized applications, and access your desktop from another computer or even another desktop, all with only an internet connection.    Features The Windows Server 2016 Remote Desktop Services includes everything your company needs to get your server up and running, along with many improvements from past versions to create the best version of the Remote Desktop Services yet. Read on to see the features added that can make a huge difference for you and your company. Virtualization based on Sessions—Take advantage of the computing power introduced in Microsoft Windows Server 2016 and offer a cost-effective multi-session environment that will drive your users' every day workloads with speed and efficiency. Keep everyone working and keep things moving along easier than ever before. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure—By using the Windows Client, you can deliver high performance app capability and the familiarity that your users have grown accustomed to through, similar to the traditional Windows Desktop experience. Even someone that is unfamiliar with server infrastructure will be able to get up and running in no time with Windows VDI.  The Full Desktop Experience, from Anywhere—Your users will love the full desktop experience that comes with running a Microsoft Windows 2016 Server. You can install applications and manage them directly on the server itself. If your users rely on the server for their full workstation, or if you have clients coming in from an external services using MultiPoint, your users will always have what they need, when they need. RemoteApps Offer Even More Flexibility—With Microsoft Windows Server 2016, you can specify individual applications that are hosted or run on the virtualized machine but appear as if they are running on the user's desktop, allowing the user seamless access to server applications from their personal machine. They even have their own taskbar entry and can be resized and moved like any other application. This is ideal for provided secure applications through a remote environment, while offering users the ability to customize their own workstation. App Compatibility with Windows 10—If your app works on Windows 10, it will almost always work on Windows Server 2016 as well. Plus, it has the same look and feel as Windows 10, ensuring that anyone who uses Windows 10 can very easily use Windows Server 2016 and the Remote Desktop Services contained inside. Azure SQL Database, Improved—The Remote Desktop Connection Broken is able to store all deployment information, such as connection states and user/host mappings, in a shared SQL database. You won't have to use something like SQL Server Always on Availability Group deployment manual ever again, and instead take advantage of a powerful and highly available environment. Map GPUs to a Host Machine—Taking advantage of the Hyper-V's discrete Device Assignment, you can now easily map your GPUs on a host machine directly to a VM, which allows that VM to take advantage of that GPU's processor. Have the tools you need to run just about anything from any location. Individual Desktops to Any End-User—You can now create personal session desktops as part of your Remote Desktop Services deployment. This allows your users to create a personal desktop directly in the cloud, giving users access to the files and folders they need from anywhere. Your Administrators and dedicated session hosts can take the complexity out of hosting an environment and allow the users to manage the desktop as if it was their own, not stored in the cloud. Support for New Codecs—Remote Desktop Protocol, included in Microsoft Windows Server Remote Desktop, now includes support for H.264/AVC 444 codec, which allows you to optimize videos and texts through the server.  Pen Remoting Supporting—Included in this new release, Pen Remoting is now supported, allowing your touch-screen gestures to translate over to apps and functionality stored on the server itself, making everything feel less like a server and more like a personal machine.  Handle More Concurrent Logon Requests than Ever—With the improved connection handling, your Remote Desktop Connection Broker can now handle over 10,000 concurrent logon requests, as can be seen during logon storms. This makes your system more robust and is perfect for your company as it expands and develops. This also makes deployment maintenance even easier by allowing you to quickly add servers back into the environment with a few quick clicks. Your server will be able to handle any load that is thrown at it, no matter how strenuous it is!

1 PC 1 person Includes integrated features that make transitioning to the cloud much easier with added layers of security. Azure Site Recovery Service allows a real-time replication of your virtual machine.  Lifetime license for home use Microsoft Windows Server 2016 is essentially an operating system. This system was earlier known as the window server Next. This updated and new version is developed in order to serve the running networked applications on a platform. It has been expected to release in the second half of the year 2016. In this updated version two conspicuous changes have been added container to window server operating system container, Hyper-V Container, and Nano Server.   There will be an option for the disposition of minimal footprint which can be installed on a virtual machine. Overall if you are a system administrator, there is no better product for you to run your everyday errands than this. It is truly a must-have for anyone dealing with servers and wide network platforms.   Features   Includes integrated features that make transitioning to the cloud much easier with added layers of security to keep your information safe. Windows Server 2016 Essential is a cloud-connected server system. It’s perfect for small businesses with no more than 25 users and 50 devices. Use Azure Virtual networking to create Site-to-Site (S2S) or point-to-point (P2P) virtual private network to make resources that are running on virtual machines look as though they are on a local network for seamless access to Resources and Applications. The server includes access to Active Directory Federation Services, remote desktop services, Windows defender anti-malware protection, failover clustering, storage services, and a web application proxy among others.  It comes with loads of unlimited host guardian services and windows server containers. It also includes a Nano server and OSEs/Hyper-V containers.  Increases the manageability of users, devices, and domains by adding support for large deployments with multiple domain controllers Includes Azure Site Recovery Services which enable users to maintain business continuity when the host server stops working or fails.  The Azure Site Recovery Service allows a real-time replication of your virtual machine. This is done by sending your VM to vault backup in Azure. These are minimum system requirements for installing Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Standard.   Processor: 1.4 GHz 64.bit processor that supports NX and DEP, as well as CMPXCHG16b, LAHF/SAHF, and PrefetchW. Must also support Second Level Address Translation (EPT or NPT) Memory: 512 MB minimum; 2 GB for a server that has Desktop Experience Hard Disk Space: 32 GB minimum; much more recommended Other requirements: Ethernet adapter with at least gigabit throughput Compliant with PCI Express architecture specifications DVD-ROM Drive if being installed through disks

1 PC 1 person Maximum memory for buffer pool per instance of SQL Server Database Engine. Start doing predictive modeling with basic R Services integration and connectivity to R Open. Lifetime license for commercial and personal use Find rich programming capabilities, security innovations, and fast performance for mid-tier applications and data marts. Easily upgrade to the Enterprise edition without having to change any code. SQL Server 2016 Standard edition delivers basic data management and business intelligence database for departments and small organizations to run their applications and supports common development tools for on-premise and cloud-enabling effective database management with minimal IT resources. Features   Build intelligent and mission-critical apps for OLTP with a breakthrough in performance, scalability, and availability. Microsoft SQL Server 2016 allows you to protect data both in motion and at rest. It is one of the least vulnerable databases in the NIST vulnerability databases. Transform your data into actionable insights by delivering insights on any device. Use R, the most popular statistical language to analyze data directly within the SQL databases without moving the data.  Microsoft SQL Server 2016 now includes various options for faster queries. The memory-optimized tables currently support faster OLTP workloads with a better throughput due to new Parallelize operations.  The analysis service now supports two different modes for faster reporting; tabular and multidimensional. Using the DirectQuery feature generates better and simpler queries than the earlier versions.  Introduces three principal security features; Row Level Security, Always Encrypted, and Dynamic Data Masking. Due to the innovative client-side encryption, the SQL server Instance never sees the unencrypted version of the data. Use Row-Level security to configure tables that users can see. The feature limits in which rows are returned to a user regardless of the application they using by automatically applying a predicate to the query.  Use Dynamic Data Masking to obfuscate sensitive data portion and specifically allow users to view the unmasked data. SQL Server 2016 Supports temporal tables, which is a new Standard in ANSI SQL 2011. You can use Transact-SQL to create and query tables relative to a specific point in time. With the addition of JSON to SQL Server 2016, you can now support both relational and non-relational data structures and choose the right model for your data workloads and requirements.  With SQL Server 2016, it’s possible to use PolyBase to query data in Azure Blob Storage and Hadoop by combining the results with relational data stored in the SQL server. Improved Azure SQL databases and better reporting by supporting two new data visualization and improved parameter layout options. .NET Framework: SQL Server 2016 RC1 and later require .NET Framework 4.6 for the Database Engine, Master Data Services, or Replication. SQL Server 2016 setup automatically installs .NET Framework. You can also manually install .NET Framework from Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6 (Web Installer) for Windows. Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 require KB2919355 before installing .NET Framework 4.6. Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 require KB2919355 before installing .NET Framework 4.6. Network Software: Supported operating systems for SQL Server have built-in network software. Named and default instances of a stand-alone installation support the following network protocols: Shared memory, Named Pipes, TCP/IP and VIA. Note: Shared memory and VIA are not supported on failover clusters.Also, note that the VIA protocol is deprecated. This feature will be removed in a future version of Microsoft SQL Server. Avoid using this feature in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use this feature. Hard Disk: SQL Server requires a minimum of 6 GB of available hard-disk space. Disk space requirements will vary with the SQL Server components you install. Drive: A DVD drive, as appropriate, is required for installation from disc. Monitor: SQL Server requires Super-VGA (800x600) or higher resolution monitor. Internet: Internet functionality requires Internet access (fees may apply). Note: Running SQL Server on a virtual machine will be slower than running natively because of the overhead of virtualization. The following memory and processor requirements apply to all editions of SQL Server: Memory: Express Editions- 512 MB, all other editions1 GB Processor Speed: Minimum: x64 Processor: 1.4 GHz, others 2.0 GHz or faster Processor Type: x64 Processor: AMD Opteron, AMD Athlon 64, Intel Xeon with Intel EM64T support, Intel Pentium IV with EM64T support **Note Installation of SQL Server is supported on x64 processors only. It is no longer supported on x86 processors. * The minimum memory required for installing the Data Quality Server component in Data Quality Services (DQS) is 2 GB of RAM, which is different from the SQL Server minimum memory requirement.

1 PC 1 person Includes integrated features that make transitioning to the cloud much easier with added layers of security. Azure Site Recovery Service allows a real-time replication of your virtual machine.  Lifetime license for home use Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Essentials Edition is a cloud-connected first server system that is ideal for small businesses with no more than 25 users and 50 devices. 2016 Essentials is an excellent option for customers currently using the Foundation edition, which is not available with Windows Server 2016. This version of Windows Server 2016 Essentials uses an original equipment installation (OEI).   Features   Some of the new features integrated with Windows Server 2016 Essentials include:   Azure Site Recovery Services   When a virtual machine that is protected from threats stops working, or the host server that it all runs on fails, Azure Site Recovery Services allows users to maintain business continuity until the virtual machine or host server on-premises is repaired and made available. Azure Site Recovery Services, a feature in Microsoft Azure, allows a replication of your virtual machines (VM) to be done in real-time and sends it to a backup vault in Azure. If your server or site goes down due to faulty hardware or another failure, you can fail-over with Azure Site Recovery so that the virtual machine image stored in your backup vault will be provisioned as a running VM in Microsoft Azure. Combined with an Azure Virtual Network, client PCs that previously connected to the server on-premises will connect to the server running in Azure.           Azure virtual Network   As organizations transfer their workloads to cloud computing, they seldom move all of their resources all at once. They instead move some resources to the cloud and keep some on the premises. it's much easier to move an organization to the cloud in stages over time. Azure Virtual Network integration provides the network infrastructure that makes that process seamless and manageable. Azure Virtual networking is a service that enables organizations to create a point-to-point (P2P) or site-to-site (S2S) virtual private network that makes resources that are running in Azure (such as virtual machines and storage) look as though they are on the local network for seamless access to applications and resources.   Larger Deployments Support   Some medium-sized businesses need more functionality and capacity to implement Windows Server Essentials. Windows Server 2016 Essentials provides increases in the manageability of domains, users, and devices by adding support for larger deployments with multiple domains and domain controllers as well as the ability to specify a designated domain controller.   These are the minimum requirements for install Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Essentials:   Processor: 1.4Ghz 64-bit processor Memory: 512 MB* with (Error Correcting Code type or similar technology) Disk Space: 32 GB  

1 PC 1 person Includes integrated features that make transitioning to the cloud much easier with added layers of security. Azure Site Recovery Service allows a real-time replication of your virtual machine.  Lifetime license for home use Microsoft Windows Server 2016 is designed for physical or minimally virtualized server environments. Windows Server 2016 is a cloud-compatible operating system that supports current workloads while bringing forth new technologies that make the transition to cloud computing a lot simpler.   The system adds many new layers of security to Windows Server 2016 and applies Azure-inspired innovation to the applications and infrastructure to transform the way you do business. This product is a license for a Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Remote Desktop User CAL for Microsoft Windows Server 2016 (sold separately) that allows a device to connect to your server remotely.    Overviews   The Windows Server 2016 licensing model includes both Cores + Client Access Licenses (CALs).   Each user and device accessing a licensed Windows Server Standard, Datacenter or Multipoint edition require a Windows Server CAL, or a Windows Server and a Remote Desktop Services (RDS) CAL.   A Windows Server CAL allows access to any edition of Windows Server of the same or earlier version. Each Window Server CAL provides access to multiple licenses of Windows Server.   When you are ready to transition workloads to the public cloud, you can leverage your existing investment in Windows Server. The Azure Hybrid Use Benefit lets you bring your on-premises Windows Server license with Software Assurance to Azure. Rather than paying the full price for a new Windows Server virtual machine, you will pay only the base to compute rate. Find more details at www.azure.com.   These are minimum system requirements for installing Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Datacenter:   Processor: 1.4 GHz 64.bit processor that supports NX and DEP, as well as CMPXCHG16b, LAHF/SAHF, and PrefetchW. Must also support Second Level Address Translation (EPT or NPT) Memory: 512 MB minimum; 2 GB for a server that has Desktop Experience Hard Disk Space: 32 GB minimum; much more recommended   Other requirements:   Ethernet adapter with at least gigabit throughput Compliant with PCI Express architecture specifications DVD-ROM Drive if being installed through disks