Windows Server 2025 with Security, Enhanced Performance, and Cloud Agility

Windows Server 2025 with Security, Enhanced Performance, and Cloud Agility

Windows Server 2025

Microsoft marks the general availability of Windows Server 2025, which enhances our commitment to providing a secure and high-performance platform tailored to meet the diverse needs of our customers. This release allows you to deploy applications across various environments, including on-premises, hybrid, and cloud setups.

Advanced Multilayered Security

In a time when cybersecurity is critical (as highlighted in the Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2024 and the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Healthcare Ransomware Report), Windows Server 2025 introduces a comprehensive suite of security features designed to protect your data and infrastructure. Key capabilities include:

  • Active Directory (AD): The benchmark for identity and authentication continues to evolve with enhanced security features that strengthen your environment against emerging threats. Improvements in scalability, protocols, encryption, and cryptographic support are included.
  • SMB Hardening: This version incorporates SMB over QUIC, enabling secure internet access to file shares. Additional security measures include fortified firewall defaults, prevention against brute force attacks, and safeguards against man-in-the-middle, relay, and spoofing attacks.
  • Delegated Managed Service Accounts (dMSA): Unlike traditional service accounts, dMSAs automate password management through AD, reducing security risks. They allow for specific permissions to be delegated for resource access, enhancing visibility and logging of service account activities.

These advanced security features position Windows Server 2025 as a robust platform for your IT infrastructure, making it essential to start evaluating it now.

Cloud Agility Anywhere

Windows Server 2025 also introduces several advanced hybrid cloud capabilities aimed at improving operational flexibility and connectivity across different environments. Notable features include:

  • Hotpatching via Azure Arc: This new subscription service brings cloud-like security advantages, such as automatic updates and backup recovery, to on-premises customers. Hotpatching minimizes disruptions by allowing security updates with fewer reboots for Azure Arc-enabled Windows Server 2025 Standard or Datacenter, whether on physical machines, virtual machines, or in multicloud setups. Currently in preview, this feature will require a monthly subscription but incurs no additional cost for Windows Server Datacenter Azure Edition virtual machines.
  • Simplified Azure Arc Onboarding: Windows Server 2025 integrates Azure’s powerful capabilities directly into your datacenter, streamlining the onboarding process for Azure’s hybrid features. This enhances operational flexibility, enabling more effective management and security of hybrid and multicloud environments.
  • Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Multisite Features: These features provide native L2 and L3 connectivity for seamless workload migration across locations, along with unified network policy management.
  • Unified Network Policy Management: This capability allows for centralized control of network policies, facilitating consistent security and performance standards across your hybrid cloud environment.

With these hybrid cloud capabilities, Windows Server 2025 is an excellent choice for organizations aiming to optimize their IT infrastructure and harness the advantages of both on-premises and cloud environments.

AI, Performance, and Scalability

Windows Server 2025 is engineered to manage the most demanding workloads, including those related to AI and machine learning. Here are some of its standout features:

  • Hyper-V, AI, and Machine Learning: With integrated support for GPU partitioning and the capability to process extensive datasets across distributed environments, Windows Server 2025 provides a high-performance platform suitable for both traditional applications and advanced AI tasks, featuring live migration and high availability.
  • NVMe Storage Performance: This version offers up to 60% more storage IOPS compared to Windows Server 2022 on similar systems, based on 4K random reads using Diskspd 2.2 with Kioxia CM7 SSDs.
  • Storage Spaces Direct and Flexibility: Windows Server has long supported a variety of storage solutions, including local, NAS, and SAN. With Windows Server 2025, you’ll find enhanced storage innovations such as Native ReFS deduplication and compression, thinly provisioned Storage Spaces, and Storage Replica Compression available across all editions.
  • Hyper-V Performance and Scalability: Significant enhancements derived from Azure have been introduced, including:
  1. Maximum Memory per VM: Up to 240 Terabytes (10 times the previous limit).
  2. Maximum Virtual Processors per VM: Up to 2048 VPs (approximately 8.5 times the previous limit).
  3. Note: These improvements require Generation 2 VMs.

Windows Server 2025 brings substantial advancements in Hyper-V, GPU integration, Storage Spaces Direct (software-defined storage), software-defined networking, and clustering. These enhancements make it an excellent choice for organizations seeking virtualization solutions while leveraging AI and machine learning with high performance and scalability.

System Center 2025 

Alongside Windows Server 2025, System Center 2025 is also available, enabling immediate management of Windows Server at scale. This release is designed to improve agility, performance, and security, helping organizations optimize their infrastructure and virtualized software-defined datacenters. For more details, we encourage you to check out the System Center 2025 post.

Microsoft Ignite 2024

We’re excited to meet you in person at Microsoft Ignite in Chicago from November 19-21, where we’ll showcase these and other features of Windows Server 2025 at our sessions and booth. For those unable to attend, many sessions, including our breakout titled “Windows Server 2025: New Ways to Gain Cloud Agility and Security,” will be available for online viewing.

Additionally, we’re thrilled to introduce new features for existing Windows Server versions, including 2016, 2019, and 2022, as well as 2025. Customers with Windows Server Software Assurance or active subscriptions can access Azure management tools like Azure Update Manager, Azure Policy Guest Configuration, Disaster Recovery, Change Tracking, and Inventory, with many features available at no extra cost. Be sure to tune into Microsoft Ignite for more demos and information on accessing these new offerings.

Key Features and EnhancementsWindows Server 2025 with Security, Enhanced Performance, and Cloud Agility

Performance and Security Improvements

Windows Server 2025 with Security, Enhanced Performance, and Cloud Agility

Comparison with Previous Versions

Windows Server 2025 represents a significant leap forward compared to its predecessors. Below is a detailed comparison:

Windows Server 2025 with Security, Enhanced Performance, and Cloud Agility

Use Cases and Applications

Windows Server 2025 is ideal for a variety of applications, including:

Windows Server 2025 with Security, Enhanced Performance, and Cloud Agility

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How to restore default configuration of Cisco 3900 series router

How to restore default configuration of Cisco 3900 series router

Restoring the default configuration of a Cisco 3900 series router is crucial for troubleshooting and reconfiguring the device. This guide provides a simple, step-by-step process to reset your router to its factory settings.

  • Connect the Cisco console cable in the device console port to get the CLI command to promote
  • Login to the laptop through Putty
  • Select the com port number or SSH IP telnet
  • The baud rate is 9600 speeds for the serial line

telnet router name or address

Login: login id   default username is (cisco)

Password: ********* (cisco or cisco@123)

Go into enable mode

Router> enable

Router# show running-config (to view the initial configuration)

Type into the below command to enter into configuration mode

Router# configure terminal

Router(config)#

Router(config)# hostname Router

Router(config)# Enable secret IP domain IP adders

After configuring the domain IP configuration

Router(config-if) # no shutdown (Run these command lines to save the given configuration)

How to check the health status of the router

Below are the commands to execute

  • Show hardware
  • Show version
  • Show terminal
2 hard disks are missing in RAID 5 and virtual drive gone offline in DELL server

2 hard disks are missing in RAID 5 and virtual drive gone offline in DELL server

DELL Server is in hang state and virtual drive in offline.

DELL Server not booting into OS due to 2 hard disks are missing in RAID 5.

Problem reported: –

Server hang state and not booting into OS.

Problem identifies: –

  • Power drain the server and power ON it.
  • Found server is not booting and giving virtual drive offline issue.
  • Its not booting into OS and going into RAID BIOS if you are pressing any key.
  • After enter into RAID BIOS found there are 2 hard disks failed in RAID 5, because of that VD is in offline.(DATA loss)

2 hard disks are missing in RAID 5 and virtual drive gone offline in DELL server

2 hard disks are missing in RAID 5 and virtual drive gone offline in DELL server

Action Taken: –

  • Shutdown the server and remove the power cables.
  • Remove and reconnected the failed drives than power ON the server.
  • Found the same issue and server not booting into OS.
  • Replaced the both the missing or failed hard drives.
  • Delete the offline virtual drive. (DATA will be not available)
  • Reconfigure the RAID 5 again and start the fast initialization.
  • Found server boot into OS without any problem.

RAID 02

DELL EQUALOGIC PS 6100 storage reset password

DELL EQUALOGIC PS 6100 storage reset password

This document describes the procedure to do Factory defaults in DELL EQUALOGIC PS 6100 storage.

Step-by-Step Procedure

Perform these steps in order to do Reset Password for factory defaults DELL EQUALOGIC PS 6100 storage:

  1. Perform these steps in order to establish a console session to switch:
    1. Connect one of the supplied DB-9-to-DB-9 adapters to the PC serial (COM#) port.
    2. Connect the other end of the supplied DB-9 connector to the RS-232 management port on the switch.

Note: The RS-232 management port is labelled CONSOLE.DELL EQUALOGIC PS 6100 storage reset password

 

    1. c. Select the com port number Putty.
      d. Choose these settings:
      Serial line: COM3
      Speed (baud): 9600
      Data bits: 8
      Stop bits: 1
      Parity: None
      Flow control: XON/XOFF2. Reboot the storage.
      a. Console on the Equallogic and powercycle the device
      b. Press CTRL+P on boot

      DELL EQUALOGIC PS 6100 storage reset passwordc. Use the following commands:
      EQL> setenv RESETPASSWORD 1
      EQL> reload

       This should reset the password back to defaults =>
      Username: grpadmin
      Password: grpadmin

How to Collect DELL ISILON Hardware OneFS Logs

How to Collect DELL ISILON Hardware OneFS Logs

Collecting hardware logs from Dell Isilon clusters running OneFS is essential for diagnosing issues and maintaining system performance. This guide provides a simple, step-by-step approach to gather these critical logs.

  1. Use management IP address on browser and press Enter. You will get below screen.
  2. Login with root and Password as set and click on Log in button.DELL ISILON
  3. You will redirect to dashboard screen.How to Collect DELL ISILON Hardware OneFS Logs
  4. Go to cluster Management and select Diagnostic option.
  5. Click on Gather tab and right side click on Start Gather button.How to Collect DELL ISILON Hardware OneFS Logs
  6. You will have the options to collect the logs:How to Collect DELL ISILON Hardware OneFS LogsNote: a) Full gather: Collects logs from the beginning
    b) Incremental gather: Start from last collected logs.
  7. Click on upload to default host and click on start gather button.
  8. You will see below Screen to show current status.
  9. You will find the downloaded logs file path in below.

How to Collect DELL ISILON Hardware OneFS Logs

Accessing through Command line:

  1. Start Putty and enter host name/ip address as SSH connection
  2. Log in as: root.
  3. On prompt cluster01-1# type command isi_gather_info-esrsHow to Collect DELL ISILON Hardware OneFS Logs