Saturday 28 July 2018

Windows Server 2019 Core-Exchange Server 2019 Installation Step by Step

Microsoft Exchange Team, pleased to announce a preview build of Exchange Server 2019 which is now available. You can download it from  Here.  In Exchange Server 2019, Microsoft has done some major changes and remove unified communication role. Exchange Server 2019 has been tuned with more performance, security and better administration with management capabilities.

Exchange Server 2019 also has the support for Windows Server Core edition installation with Windows Server 2019. We can also install Exchange Server 2019 on Windows Server 2016 Core or with Desktop experience. You can read more about features from Read More.

In this article we will walk through the installation of Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 on Windows Server 2019 Core Edition. Download PDF

Thursday 26 July 2018

Exchange Server 2019-Step by Step Installation on Windows Server 2019.


Microsoft Exchange Team, pleased to announce a preview build of Exchange Server 2019 which is now available. You can download it from  Here.  In Exchange Server 2019, Microsoft has done some major changes and remove unified communication role. Exchange Server 2019 has been tuned with more performance, security and better administration with management capabilities. 

Exchange Server 2019 also has the support for Windows Server Core edition installation with Windows Server 2019. We can also install Exchange Server 2019 on Windows Server 2016 Core or with Desktop experience. You can read more about features from Read More

In this article we will walk through the installation of Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 with Desktop Experience on Windows Server 2019. Download HowTo

Tuesday 24 July 2018

Exchange Server 2019 Public Preview

Microsoft Exchange Team, pleased to announce a preview build of Exchange Server 2019 is now available. You can download it here.

We strongly believe Office 365 delivers the best and most cost-effective experience to our customers, but we understand that some customers have reasons to remain on-premises. Exchange Server 2019 is designed to deliver security, performance,

Friday 13 July 2018

Windows Server 2019-Step by Step Installation of Domain Controller

As Microsoft has release new Windows Server 2019 with more enhanced features and security related stuff. We have preview editions available to take a look and drive it look more in depth. In this Lab we will see the installation of Windows Server

Monday 16 April 2018

Tools for Troubleshooting IPv4 in Windows Server 2016.

This article focuses on tools that will help us to identify and resolve IP connectivity problems between hosts. Windows Server 2016 includes a number of command‑line tools that can help you diagnose network problems. These tools were commonly used in earlier Windows Server editions.

Ipconfig:- Ipconfig is a command‑line tool that displays the current TCP/IP network configuration. Additionally, you can use the ipconfig command to refresh DHCP and DNS settings. The following command‑line options for ipconfig.

Ipconfig /all:- View detailed configuration information.

Ipconfig /release:-  Release the leased configuration back to the DHCP server.

Ipconfig /Renew:-  Renew the leased configuration.

Ipconfig /displaydns:-  View the DNS resolver cache entries.

Ipconfig /flushdns:- Purge the DNS resolve cache.

Read More

Saturday 10 March 2018

Microsoft MCT & Exchange Admins Meetup at Deira, Dubai UAE Participants

The purpose of this Meetup is to discuss MCT day to day problem and the solutions to fix them. Also discussed MCT portal registration for new MCT awareness and learning materials.


All MCT participants presented and shared his thoughts for the improvement of MCT courses, students issues, and future Microsoft technologies with Office 365 and Azure capabilities.


Event is Organized at Orient IT Services Office Dubai UAE, a Microsoft Gold Partner. 




Friday 9 March 2018

Step by Step MS SQL 17 Installation on CentOS Linux Release 7.4

Traditionally, Microsoft SQL Server, being part of Microsoft’s back office platform, has always run on Windows operating systems. However, Microsoft has made a commitment to enable customers to choose any platform. As part of this commitment, for SQL Server 2017,

Step by Step Changing Default Windows RDP Port with Advance Firewall

The requirement was to Secure Remote Access to Server in a private cloud infrastructure, where the customer wanted to provide RDP of Microsoft Windows Server with different RDP port other than the default one which shipped with default Windows installation.

Step by Step SharePoint Administration For Anyone

A fundamental responsibility concerning site security is to manage who can access resources on your site. SharePoint enables you, as a site owner, to control

Monday 5 March 2018

Introducing Azure Advanced Threat Protection

The recent years have witnessed a distinct and consistent escalation in cyberattacks’ scope, scale, and sophistication, impacting organizations across all verticals and locations. This escalation is manifested not only in increasing proliferation of threat-actor groups, but also in the diversity of the utilized attack Tools Techniques and Procedures (TTPs), ranging from zero-day exploits to weaponized antimalware and publicly available toolkits.

This threat landscape is driving a change in the common security paradigm, bringing security stakeholders to realize that a resourceful and determined attacker will at a certain point succeed in bypassing the traditional prevention and detection controls.

To proactively respond to these threats, there is a need for a security layer that operates following the successful bypass of these controls and is tasked with detecting the malicious activity consecutive to this bypass.

Step by Step Domain Migration Windows 2008 to Windows 2012.

Active Directory is one of the most widely used services on enterprise networks. In addition to providing basic authentication and authorization services, Active Directory enables so many other capabilities that its popularity is no surprise.

Most of the people are still running Windows Server 2008 in the network and wants to safely migrate to Windows Server 2012 R2 edition. Windows Server 2012 R2 adds some significant new features to both Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).

Announcing Microsoft 365 for US Government



Make no mistake: over the last few years, we’ve seen faster acceleration of government organizations moving to the cloud. So why now? This move is driven largely by the desire to bring the most up-to-date tools and capabilities to employees to meet demands for mobility and create a more modern workplace—and to ensure they are better equipped to face rising security challenges. And this desire is supported by recent legislation like the Modernizing Government.Technology Act, which creates IT modernization funds to help agencies replace aging infrastructure that poses security risks. 


 

How to Connect with O365 with PowerShell

PowerShell allows you to manage your Exchange Online (office 365) settings from the command line.You can use Windows PowerShell from your loca

Sunday 4 March 2018

How to Create Fine Grained Password Policy in Server 2012

You can use fine-grained password policies to specify multiple password policies in a single domain and apply different restrictions for password and account lockout policies to different sets of users in a domain. For example, you can apply stricter settings to privileged accounts and less strict settings to the accounts of other users. In other cases,

Step by Step Virtual Machine Creation in Azure

Azure Virtual Machines (VM) is one of several types of on-demand, scalable computing resources that Azure offers. Typically, you choose a VM when you need more control over the computing environment than the other choices offer. This article gives you information about what you should consider before you create a VM, how you create it, and how you manage it.

An Azure VM gives you the flexibility of virtualization

Types of Exchange Server Recipients.

Exchange Server recipients are any objects within the Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) forest that have been configured with an email address. When AD DS objects are configured with an email address, they appear in the Global Address List (GAL). Exchange Server 2016 supports the following recipient types:

User mailboxes:- A mailbox that you assign to an individual user in your Exchange organization. This is the most common type of recipient in Exchange Server 2016.

Mail contacts:- Contacts that contain information about people or organizations that exist outside an Exchange Server organization and that have an external email address. Exchange Server routes all messages sent to the mail contact to this external email address. 

Mail users:- Users who have an AD DS user account but have an external email address.

Step by Step SharePoint 2016 Multi Server Installation for anyone.

SharePoint Server 2016 has been designed, developed, and tested with the Microsoft Software as a Service (SaaS) strategy, building on SharePoint Online as its core. Drawing extensively from that experience, SharePoint Server 2016 offers you new and improved, highly flexible deployment options. You can choose from a traditional on-premises deployment, a hosted service with Microsoft Office 365 sites powered by Microsoft SharePoint Online, deployment in Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), or a mix of these options with a hybrid approach, empowering you to choose how and when you take advantage of on-premises or cloud-based solutions, all without changing the user experience. Seamless integration with on-premises people experiences and taxonomy ensure a consistent experience within or beyond the firewall.

Step-by-Step 2 Node Hyper-V Replication.

Hyper v replication is use for Disaster recovery, A replica virtual machine is a complete, ready-to-run duplicate of the source virtual machine. It can be switched on and be up and running in a few moments. When this happens, HVR assumes that the source virtual machine is lost and unrecoverable. When the replica is activated it becomes the official copy of the virtual machine.

Step by Step Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 Migration-Part-III

We have successfully received email from User1. Till here we have completed our Migration Lab part I, and part II we will add one additional domain controller of Windows Server 2016 Data Center Edition and also Add one Exchange Server 2016 on Windows Server 2016 in the same AD domain so that we can start our migration from Exchange 2010 SP3 to Exchange 2016.

In next lab which is Part-III, I will also do migration FSMO roles from Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Controller to new Windows Server 2016 Active Directory Domain Controller so that I can later demote Windows 2008 Domain with Exchange 2010.

Saturday 3 March 2018

Step by Step Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 Migration-Part-II

I will continue from Part-I of migration, in first part we have just configured domain environment for installation of Exchange 2010 SP3, in this part we will install all prerequisites of Exchange 2010 SP3 and itself Exchange 2010 setup.

VMs related configuration will remain same as described in part-I of our migration guide. I will join the 2nd VM with Domain 2008 and login with Domain Admin credentials to perform all tasks

Step by Step Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 Migration-Part-I

am going to start the migration process from scratch because I don’t have pre-setup for this
migration so I will start the lab from building a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2008 R2
Standard, on the same OS I will install Exchange Server 2010 SP3. In the second part of the
Guide I will further install Domain Controller on Windows Server 2016 Standard Edition, on the
same OS I will install Exchange Server 2016.

ActiveDirecoty Fedration Services with Office 365

Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) simplifies access to systems and applications using a claims-based access (CBA) authorization mechanism to maintain application security. AD FS supports Web single-sign-on (SSO) technologies that help information technology (IT) organizations collaborate across organizational boundaries. AD FS 2.0 is a downloadable Windows Server 2008 update that is the successor to AD FS 1.0,

Step by Step Establishing Azure Point to Site VPN

There are many scenario in which we have to work on Microsoft Azure Cloud doing experiments
and LABs, or we have to setup some Application Server’s on which different people have to work
like a team, such as a team of developer is working on a project which is hosted on Microsoft Azure plate from and the developers are located in different geo location.

Step by Step Azure Site to Site VPN with SonicWall Hardware Firewall

Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure created by Microsoft. It is used for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft managed datacenters.

How to Extend Password Expiry Date in AD

Active directory account passwords expire set (for example, every 90 days) in most of the organizations. Configuring an AD account with Password

SCCM 2012 Step by Step For Anyone

A member of the Microsoft System Center suite of management solutions, System Center 2012 Configuration Manager increases IT productivity and efficiency by reducing manual tasks and letting you focus on high-value projects, maximize hardware and software investments, and empower end-user productivity by providing the right software at the right time.

Windows Server Update Services Step by Step for Anyone

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) enables information technology administrators to deploy the latest Microsoft product updates. WSUS is a Windows Server, server role that can be installed to manage and distribute updates. A WSUS server can be the update source for other WSUS servers within the organization. The WSUS server that acts as an update source is called an upstream server. 

In a WSUS implementation, at least one WSUS server in the network must connect to Microsoft Update to get available update information. The administrator can determine, based on network security and configuration, how many other servers connect directly to Microsoft Update.

Step by Step SQL Server 2016 Two Node Failover Cluster

SQL Server 2016 delivers mission critical performance across all workloads with in-memory built-in, faster insights from any data with familiar tools, and a platform for hybrid cloud enabling organizations to easily build, deploy, and manage solutions that span on-premises and cloud. SQL Server 2016 is the biggest leap forward in the Microsoft data platform history with real-time operational analytics, rich visualizations on mobile devices, built-in advanced analytics, new advanced security technology, and new hybrid cloud scenarios.

Step by Step iSCSI Network Storage Windows Server 2016

This is a guide on how to create and Configure iSCSI windows server 2016. Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) is a way of connecting storage devices over a network using TCP/IP. It can be used over a local area network (LAN), a wide area network (WAN), or the Internet. In this guide, we will create iSCSI in Windows Server 2016 as target and will connect the same storage from the network. In this way,

Step by Step Installation of Windows Server 2016 Domain Controller

Active Directory is one of the most widely used services on enterprise networks. In addition to providing basic authentication and authorization services, Active Directory enables so many other capabilities that its popularity is no surprise.

Windows Server 2016 adds some significant new features to both Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS). Many of the features added in Windows Server 2016 are geared toward the increased focus on cloud applications, whether they're public, private, or hybrid.

Saturday 24 February 2018

Microsoft Exchange Admins Meetup at Deira, Dubai UAE

This event will cover discussion on Microsoft Exchange on premises and Exchange online, Office 365 and Microsoft Azure, day to day challenges faced by admins and real life experiences to share with each other about Exchange. We will also discuss the upcoming version of Microsoft Exchange 2019. Register the Event Here:- 



Announcing New information protection capabilities across devices, apps, on-premises and the cloud

With an exponential increase in the number of data breaches and regulations such as EU-GDPR, we all feel the urgency to work towards a holistic information protection strategy. We’ve been on a journey with our information protection offerings and vision over the years. You may have noticed our focus broadening from just Azure

Blockchain on Microsoft Azure

Time to put some blockchain in your brain. Take an interstellar adventure and learn why blockchain is the next frontier for digital transformation in business.

Quantum Computing


Quantum computing is many things: important, revolutionary and confusing. Who better to explain this monumental technology in understandable terms than a 19th Century Austrian cat?

Microsoft 365 provides an information protection strategy to help with the GDPR

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which began as a regulatory requirement, is increasingly seen as a long-term opportunity to establish greater trust with customers and further unlock employee collaboration and productivity in many businesses. The intelligent compliance solutions in Microsoft 365 help you assess and manage your compliance risks and leverage the cloud to identify, classify, protect, and monitor sensitive data residing in hybrid and heterogeneous environments to support GDPR compliance.
Updates in Microsoft 365—currently rolling out—help protect sensitive data and include:
  • Compliance Manager general availability for Azure, Dynamics 365, and Office 365 Business and Enterprise customers in public clouds.
  • Compliance Score availability for Office 365.
  • Azure Information Protection scanner general availability.
In addition to the updates announced today, capabilities in Microsoft 365 help to:

Tuesday 20 February 2018

Software Requirements for Exchange Server 2016

Exchange Server 2016 requires that you have specific software preinstalled prior to starting the deployment process. First, you should plan for the operating system platforms that you will be using for Exchange Server 2016. The following operating systems support the installation of Exchange Server 2016 roles:

  • Windows Server 2012 Standard
  • Windows Server 2012 Datacenter
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter
  • Windows Server 2016 Standard (Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 3 and later)
  • Windows Server 2016 Datacenter (Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 3 and later)

Note: The Server Core installation option is not a supported operating system option for Exchange Server 2016 installation.

Sunday 18 February 2018

Give your dissertation a boost with a grant from Microsoft Research




Need funding to clear a hurdle in the final stages of your dissertation research? Microsoft Research is offering grants of up to US $25,000 to help a select group of doctoral students cross the finish line and enter the workforce.
The Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant is for PhD students at U.S. and Canadian universities from underrepresented groups in computing, including women, African-Americans/Blacks, Latinos, American Indians/Alaskan Natives, Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders and/or people with disabilities.
The program is rooted in organizational management research that shows diverse teams come up with ideas and solutions to problems that more homogenous teams miss, which translates to benefits for industry as well as society. In addition, the technology industry has a shortage of computer scientists. The dissertation grant aims to help deepen and diversify the technology talent pool.
The grant program targets doctoral students in at least the fourth year of their studies. Students at this later stage of their doctoral work have a sufficiently concrete research plan to articulate specific funding needs. Earlier stage doctoral students should consider the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship Program. I’m also pleased to announced that Microsoft Research is increasing the amount of the research grants up to $25,000 (the limit was up to $20,000 per grant in the program’s first year). We hope that this increase allows the award to have a greater impact on recipients’ research and career development. Read More

Wednesday 24 January 2018

A worthy upgrade: Next-gen security on Windows 10 proves resilient against ransomware outbreaks in 2017

Adopting reliable attack methods and techniques borrowed from more evolved threat types, ransomware attained new levels of reach and damage in 2017. The following trends characterize the ransomware narrative in the past year:
  • Three global outbreaks showed the force of ransomware in making real-world impact, affecting corporate networks and bringing down critical services like hospitals, transportation, and traffic systems
  • Three million unique computers encountered ransomware; millions more saw downloader trojans, exploits, emails, websites and other components of the ransomware kill chain
  • New attack vectors, including compromised supply chain, exploits, phishing emails, and documents taking advantage of the DDE feature in Office were used to deliver ransomware
  • More than 120 new ransomware families, plus countless variants of established families and less prevalent ransomware caught by heuristic and generic detections, emerged from a thriving cybercriminal enterprise powered by ransomware-as-a-service. ReadMore

Monday 22 January 2018

From ‘Minecraft’ to mixed reality, Microsoft is preparing students for the future

One sunny morning in December, sixth-grader Sophia Sta. Rosa and a classmate were busy working on a book report project, using “Minecraft: Education Edition” to build an amusement park with rides based on events in a novel.

The girls created a rollercoaster, a water slide and other attractions for their park, setting their own criteria and rules for the project. They didn’t want it to be too easy, Sta. Rosa explained, and they wanted to show responsibility so their teacher would let them tackle more complex challenges. To the 11-year-old, the most important lessons she was learning from “Minecraft” weren’t about building structures or coding, but collaboration and problem-solving. ReadMore

Sunday 7 January 2018

What’s the solution to the growing problem of passwords? You, says Microsoft



uick: Change your password again. Make sure it has a combination of capital letters, numbers and special characters. Wait, no. Instead, come up with a long random phrase that you should be able to remember. Wait, no. Stop. Stop the madness! It’s time to kill the password.

This relic from the early days of computing has long outlived its usefulness, and certainly, its ability to keep criminals at bay. More than two-thirds of people use the same, usually not-very-strong password across dozens of different accounts. Weak passwords and stolen identities are the No. 1 source of data loss. Last year alone, 81 percent of major data breaches could be traced back to one individual’s compromised identity.

Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies announce partnership using AI to decode immune system; diagnose, treat disease.


The human immune system is an astonishing diagnostic system, continuously adapting itself to detect any signal of disease in the body. Essentially, the state of the immune system tells a story about virtually everything affecting a person’s health. It may sound like science fiction, but what if we could “read” this story? Our scientific understanding of human health would be fundamentally advanced. And more importantly, this would provide a foundation for a new generation of precise medical diagnostic and treatment options.

Photo of Peter Lee standing in front of a whiteboard covered in writingPeter Lee, Corporate Vice President of AI + Research (Photo by Scott Eklund/Red Box Pictures)
Amazingly, this isn’t just science fiction, but can be science fact. And so we’re excited to announce a new partnership with Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies, coupling the latest advances in AI and machine learning with recent breakthroughs in biotechnology to build a practical technology for mapping and decoding the human immune system. Together, we have a goal that is simple to state but also incredibly ambitious: create a universal blood test that reads a person’s immune system to detect a wide variety of diseases including infections, cancers and autoimmune disorders in their earliest stage, when they can be most effectively diagnosed and treated.

MCT Abu Dhabi Meetup: 13 January 2018.


Saturday 6 January 2018

Step by Step MS SQL 17 Installation on CentOS Linux Release 7.4.



LAB Setup for SQL on Centos

Traditionally, Microsoft SQL Server, being part of Microsoft’s back office platform, has always run on Windows operating systems. However, Microsoft has made a commitment to enable customers to choose any platform. As part of this commitment, for SQL Server 2017, Microsoft has released SQL Server on Linux. This version of SQL Server will run and host databases on all common distributions of Linux, including Ubuntu, SUSE, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
I am going to build this lab on VMware Work station 14 with 4 GB of RAM and 4 Core Virtual CPUs.
VM Name
IP Address
RAM
V-CPU
HDD
ms-sql-17-01.mstechguru.ae
192.168.244.135
4 GB
4
100 GB
The same VM will be used later in a cluster. In this lab I will walk through the single instance installation of SQL Server. In this lab there is no part of Linux based installation as its standard installation method I have followed for the lab setup, but you can install your Linux box as per your requirements on a production network.

Pre-requisites

·       PuTTY
·       CentOS/RHEL Server
·       SQL Server 2017 CTP 2.1 and SQL Server 2017 RC1
·       SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 17.4

SQL Security

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a nonregulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce. In 2015, NIST reported that SQL Server had the lowest number of security vulnerabilities of all the major database systems.

New features and improvements introduced in Windows Server 2016



The following features and feature improvements were introduced in Windows Server 2016: 

·         Nano Server. Nano Server is a new installation option for Windows Server 2016. With no graphical or command prompt interface, it has a significantly lower hardware requirement than Server Core. Nano Server is the ideal platform for HyperV, HyperV cluster, and scale-out file servers and cloud service apps.
·         Windows Server containers and HyperV containers. Containers enable you to isolate your apps from the operating system environment. This improves security and reliability. Windows containers are isolated from one another but run on the host operating system. HyperV containers are further isolated, because they run within a virtual machine.
·         Docker. Docker is a technology for managing containers. Although Docker is usually associated with Linux, Windows Server 2016 provides support for Docker for managing Windows containers and HyperV containers.
·         Rolling upgrades for HyperV and storage clusters. These upgrades enable you to add Windows Server 2016 nodes to an existing Windows Server 2012 R2 failover cluster. The cluster continues to operate at a Windows Server 2012 R2 functional level until all the nodes are upgraded.

Friday 5 January 2018

Selecting a suitable Windows Server 2016 edition


You can choose one of several editions of Windows Server 2016. These editions allow organizations to select a version of Windows Server 2016 that best meets their needs, rather than pay for features they do not require. When deploying a server for a specific role, system administrators can save substantially by selecting the appropriate edition. The following table describes the Windows Server 2016 editions.

Edition
Description
Windows Server 2016 Essentials edition
Windows Server 2016 Essentials edition is designed for small businesses. It corresponds to Windows Small Business Server from earlier versions of Windows Server. This edition allows up to 25 users and 50 devices. It supports two processor cores and up to 64 gigabytes (GB) of random access memory (RAM). It does not support many of the features of Windows Server 2016, including virtualization.
Windows Server 2016 Standard edition
Windows Server 2016 Standard edition is designed for physical server environments with little or no virtualization. It provides many of the roles and features available for the Windows Server 2016 operating system. This edition supports up to 64 sockets and up to 4 terabytes (TB) of RAM. It includes licenses for up to two virtual machines and supports Nano Server installation. 

Note: You can run two virtual machines on one physical host, using one standard license, as long as the physical host is only used for hosting and managing the virtual machines. If the physical host is used to run other services, such as DNS, you can only run one virtual machine. For more information about Windows licensing, speak with a Microsoft licensing specialist. 

Windows Server 2016 Datacenter edition
Windows Server 2016 Datacenter edition is designed for highly virtualized infrastructures, including private cloud and hybrid cloud environments. It provides all of the roles and features available for the Windows Server 2016 operating system. This edition supports up to 64 sockets, up to 640 processor cores, and up to 4 TB of RAM. It includes unlimited Windows Server-based virtual machine licenses for virtual machines that run on the same hardware. It also includes new features such as Storage Spaces Direct and Storage Replica, along with new Shielded Virtual Machines and features for software-defined datacenter scenarios.
Microsoft HyperV Server 2016
Acts as a stand-alone virtualization server for virtual machines, including all the new features around virtualization in Windows Server 2016. The host operating system has no licensing cost, but virtual machines must be licensed separately. This edition supports up to 64 sockets and up to 4 TB of RAM. It supports domain joining. It does not support Windows Server 2016 roles other than limited file service features. This edition has no GUI but does have a UI that displays a menu of configuration tasks.
Windows Storage Server 2016 Workgroup edition
Acts as an entry-level unified storage appliance. This edition allows 50 users, one processor core, and 32 GB of RAM. It supports domain joining.
Windows Storage Server 2016 Standard edition
Supports up to 64 sockets but is licensed on a two-socket, incrementing basis. This edition supports up to 4 TB of RAM. It includes two virtual machine licenses. It supports domain joining. It supports some roles, including Domain Name System (DNS) and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server roles, but does not support others, including Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS), or Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS).