Features
Windows Embedded Server
Windows Embedded
Server
Introduction
Windows
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Embedded Server is binary identical to Windows Server, with built-in security, reliability, and availability features intended for use in an embedded solution consisting of
purpose-built hardware and application software. Windows
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Embedded Server allows OEMs to more easily design, build, and deploy dedicated solutions.
Feature Details
Server Availability
Network adapter teaming enables multiple network adapters to be placed into a team
interface for bandwidth aggregation and traffic failover.
Data Security and Integrity
Claims-based file access allows the flexibility to restrict access to files based on
various claims.
Centralized access and audit policies enable targeted auditing of certain data sets.
Improvements include auto-encryption and file classification.
Dynamic Host Protocol (DHCP) guard protection helps prevent your server
appliance security from being compromised.
Management Efficiency
Improved automation with Windows PowerShell helps reduce errors and improves
availability of server appliances.
Remote server administration allows enterprises deploying server appliances to
remotely manage server appliances across roles from a single UI.
Helps automate routine tasks.
Data Deduplication
Throttles CPU and memory consumption to maintain a low impact on server
appliance workloads; can be configured to run at specific times, and is highly
scalable.
Uses checksum, consistency and identity validation, in addition to maintaining
redundancy for metadata and data most frequently accessed.
Storage Reliance
Create storage reliance and availability with Storage Spaces and Storage Pools.
Enables you to virtualize storage by grouping industry-standard disks into Storage
Pools and then creating Storage Spaces from the available capacity in the Storage
Pools. With Windows Server for Embedded Systems, you have the ability to
virtualize your storage solution. Storage Spaces gives you the ability to consolidate
all your SAS and SATA connected disks—whether they are SSDs or traditional
HDDs—and consolidate them as Storage Pools.
Windows Server for Embedded Systems includes a redesigned data persistence
layer that is based on a new version of the VHD format called VHDX (VHD 2.0).
VHDX has a much larger storage capacity than the older VHD format. iSCSI Target
Server also provides data corruption protection during power failures and optimizes
structural alignments of dynamic and differencing disks to prevent performance
degradation on new, large-sector physical disks.
Virtual Machine Performance
Use Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) in Hyper-V to speed up the performance of
virtual machines.
Data Availability
Resilient File System (ReFS) helps maximize data availability and online operation, despite
errors that would historically cause data loss or downtime.
Business Intelligence
PowerView, a new feature in the Business Intelligence and Enterprise editions of Microsoft
SQL Server for Embedded Systems Reporting Services, provides a method for users who
are not business analysts to explore data stored in PowerPivot for SharePoint.
Windows Client Interoperability
Client machines connecting to server appliances from locations with low-bandwidth
connections can quickly adapt to different network conditions through improvements in
Remote Desktop Protocol.
Windows Server for Embedded Systems offers a dynamic infrastructure that
can scale and secure workloads, and increase hardware ROI and reduce total
cost of ownership
The platform features diverse storage choices that can help achieve high-
performance, availability and resource efficiency through virtualization and
optimization
Windows Server for Embedded Systems also automates a broad set of
management tasks, and simplifies deployment of workloads, helping move an
organization toward full, lights-out automation and easy remote management
Deliver centralized access and audit policies, leverage built-in security
capabilities, and help lock down your appliances
Embedded Operation System
All product specifications are subject to change without notice. Last updated: 20-Nov-2017
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Windows Embedded Server
Windows Server 2016 – The cloud-ready operating system
Windows Server has been developed for several versions for Embedded Systems,
2003(EOL), 2008, 2012, to now 2016. Windows Server 2016 has an innovative
breakthrough to evolve your datacenter with more flexibility and to save cost from the
utilization of Microsoft Azure. Security to be increased by adding multiple layers of
protection built into the operating system that reduces risk from business. Windows
Server 2016 also can help you to innovate faster by utilizing microservices architecture.
Security
Windows Server 2016 gives you capabilities to help prevent attacks and detect suspicious
activity, with features to control privileged access, help protect virtual machines, and
harden the platform against emerging threats.
The new Shielded Virtual Machine feature that protects VMs from attacks and compromised
administrators in the underlying fabric, extensive threat resistance components built into
the Windows Server 2016 operating system and enhanced auditing events that will help
security systems detect malicious activity. Remote Credential Guard helps you protect
your credentials over a Remote Desktop connection. Code Integrity can protect Remote
Desktop Services to lock down what applications can run within the user sessions. It’s how
the multiple protections achieve the higher security function for Windows Server 2016.
Datacenter operation
Windows Server 2016 exhibits capabilities to meet operational and security challenges,
freeing up IT resources to plan and innovate on future solutions that drive business
success. For example, the direct local storage space and storage replica between servers
help on building highly availability and scalable software defined storage. Furthermore, the
new role in Windows Server 2016 is that enables low cost-per-seat by allowing multiple
users to run their own sessions while connected to one machine.
Faster innovation
Windows Server 2016 also supports developers to modernize apps or services no
matter from on-premises or any cloud, by using technologies such as containers and
microservices architectures. For example, Windows containers provide greater isolation
enabling many isolated applications to run on one computer system, which including
Windows Server containers and Hyper-V container.
Nano Server can be the container OS for both types of Windows containers.
Container data management capabilities are enabled with container shared folders.
Container resource policies can be implemented.
Move your traditional applications into a modern DevOps environment with little or
no code changes using containers. Windows Server
Containers bring the agility and density of containers to the Windows ecosystem, enabling
agile application development and management. Use Hyper-V isolation for a unique
additional level of security for Linux and Windows containerized applications without any
changes to the container image. Use Active Directory identity mapped to your Windows
Server Containers.
Microsoft, Docker Inc. and the Docker Community have partnered to provide the
Docker Enterprise Edition with support for new container technologies in Windows
Server 2016.
Use Nano Server as the container image for the agility and flexibility today’s
application developers need. Optimized for use inside containers, it’s the perfect
option for working with microservices.
Run traditional first-party applications such as SQL Server 2016 with best-in-class
performance, security and availability.
The comparison between Microsoft 2008/2008R2, 2012/2012 R2, and 2016 are listed
below.
Features Server 2008 / 2008 R2 Server 2012 Server 2012 R2 Server 2016
Identity and Access
Active Directory Services
Dynamic Access Control –
AD virtualization support –
Virtualization
Shared-nothing live migration –
Hyper-V Replica –
Hyper-V clustering
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Storage
Storage Spaces with tiering – –
Shared VHDX – –
Live storage migration –
Storage QoS –
Cluster share volume
Web and App Plat
Multi-tenant high density websites
NUMA aware scalability –
Dynamic IP restrictions –
Networking
Hyper-V Network Virtualization –
NIC teaming –
IP address management –
Management and Automation
Server Core
Multiserver management
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Windows PowerShell
Windows PowerShell Workflow and Web Access –