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Windows Server vNext (final name is not announced yet) is an upcoming server operating system developed by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems, developed concurrently with Windows 10. The first early preview version (Technical Preview) has become available in 1 October 2014 together with the first technical preview of System Center[2], and is currently in public beta testing. The final release date for the server is expected to be in early 2016, that is, not released concurrently with the client operating system Windows 10 as it was the case with the last three operating system releases.
Features
Active Directory Federation Services: possible to configure AD FS to authenticate users stored in non-AD directories, such as X.500 compliant Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directories and SQL databases[3]
Windows Defender: Windows Server Antimalware is installed and enabled by default without the GUI, which is an installable Windows feature.[4]
Web Application Proxy: preauthentication for HTTP Basic application publishing, wildcard domain publishing of applications, HTTP to HTTPS redirection, Propagation of client IP address to backend applications[8]
IP address management (IPAM): support for /31, /32, and /128 subnets; discovery of file-based, domain-joined DNS servers; new DNS functions; better integration of DNS, DHCP, and IP Address (DDI) Management[14]
Network Controller, a new server role to configure, manage, monitor, and troubleshoot virtual and physical network devices and services in the datacenter[15]
Hyper-V Network Virtualization: programmable Hyper-V switch (a new building block of Microsoft’s Software-defined networking solution); VXLAN encapsulation support; Microsoft Software Load Balancer interoperability; better IEEE Ethernet standard compliancy[16]
Rolling Hyper-V cluster update: unlike upgrading clusters from Windows 2008 R2 to 2012 level, Windows Server Technical Preview cluster nodes can be added to a Hyper-V Cluster with nodes running Windows Server 2012 R2. The cluster continues to function at a Windows Server 2012 R2 feature level until all of the nodes in the cluster have been upgraded and the cluster functional level has been upgraded.
Storage quality of service (QoS) to centrally monitor end-to-end storage performance and create policies using Hyper-V and Scale-Out File Servers
New, more efficient binary virtual machine configuration format (.VMCX extension for virtual machine configuration data and the .VMRS extension for runtime state data)
A public beta version of Windows Server vNext branded as "Windows Server Technical Preview" was released on October 1, 2014; the technical preview builds are aimed towards enterprise users.
