Microsoft has released Windows Server 2025 and XLHost is pleased to offer Windows Server 2025 on XLHost dedicated servers. Some of the highlights of Windows 2025 are:
- NVMe storage performance: On identical systems, Windows Server 2025 delivers up to 60% more storage IOPs performance than Windows Server 2022.
- Block cloning support: As Dev Drive uses the ReFS file system format, Block cloning support provides significant performance benefits when copying files.
- New Active Directory (AD) functionalities and capabilities, including AD object repair, optional 32k database page size, and improved security for confidential attributes and default machine account passwords.
- Credential Guard: Starting with Windows Server 2025, it's enabled by default on devices that meet the requirements to block credential theft attacks by protecting NTLM password hashes, Kerberos Ticket Granting Tickets (TGTs), and credentials stored by apps as domain credentials.
- File services/server message block (SMB) hardening: Windows Server 2025 includes SMB over QUIC to enable secure access to file shares over the Internet. SMB security also adds hardened firewall defaults, brute force attack prevention, and protections for man-in-the-middle attacks, relay attacks, and spoofing attacks.
- Delegate Managed Service Accounts (dMSA): Unlike traditional service accounts, dMSAs don't require manual password management since AD automatically handles it.
- Accelerated Networking (AccelNet): This feature simplifies the management of single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) for virtual machines (VM) hosted on Windows Server 2025 clusters. It uses the high-performance SR-IOV data path to reduce latency, jitter, and CPU utilization.
- DTrace: Windows Server 2025 comes equipped with DTrace as a native tool. DTrace is a command-line utility that enables users to monitor and troubleshoot their system's performance in real-time.
- Virtualization-based security (VBS) enclaves designed to help applications protect their secrets by removing the need to trust admins and hardening against malicious attackers.
- Windows Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS): It automatically generates unique passwords for each computer's local administrator account, stores them securely in AD, and updates them regularly to improve security by reducing the risk of attackers gaining access to sensitive systems using compromised or easily guessable passwords
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More information can be found from Microsoft
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