User Manual

Accelerate business agility with
apps built on Windows Server
The cloud enables businesses to innovate quickly and deliver faster time-to-
value with cloud-native applications and microservices architecture. But
most businesses are grappling with how to manage and update thousands
of existing applications while planning how to move to this new world. What
is needed is a solution that helps you invigorate existing applications and
create new, cloud-native applications. Windows Server 2016 can do both.
Windows Server helps you secure and modernize existing existing enterprise
.NET and line-of-business server apps with little or no code changes. Package
existing apps in containers to realize the benet of a more agile DevOps
model, then deploy either on-premises, to any cloud, or in a hybrid model.
Developers can create cloud-ready, business-changing apps and services,
whether on-premises or in any cloud, using technologies such as containers
and the lightweight Nano Server installation option. Windows Server 2016
can help you modernize your apps and innovate faster with a cloud-ready
application platform.
Secure fabric to help protect virtual machines
Enhance existing apps with Windows Server 2016, by taking advantage of
enhanced security and management features in the fabric. Use Shielded
Virtual Machines to help secure your critical applications to run only on
trusted fabrics. Limit administrator access to specic tasks with Just Enough
Administration and specic time limits with Just-in-Time Administration.
Cloud changes everything
• Enables agility, elasticity, and scalability.
• Enables developers to focus on features,
not infrastructure.
• Agile processes get new capabilities into
production and deliver value faster than
ever before.
Windows Server 2016 features include agile
cloud development technologies:
• Containers – OS virtualization
• Nano Server – just enough OS
• .NET Core – Core framework
• Just-in-Time and Just Enough
Administration
Additional agile development technologies:
• Azure Service Fabric – microservices
platform
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for using Windows Server licenses in
Azure
• Visual Studio Community – development
tool
• Azure – public cloud deployment
• Third-party frameworks such as (Node.js)
• Azure ExpressRoute – connections for
hybrid
Modernize your apps
with Windows Server 2016
Secure fabric for
existing VMs
Containerize
existing apps
Create cloud and
hybrid-cloud apps