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Windows Server 2025 enhances the technology behind Windows Server 2022 to deliver improvements in vital areas including tighter security, faster and more efficient storage, Microsoft 365 application support, and unified management for on-premises, multi-cloud, and hybrid deployments.

Enhanced features in Windows Server 2025 include:

• You can use Hotpatch to apply OS security patches without the need to restart your server.
• Dev Drive supports block cloning with Windows Server 2025, offering faster file copying, reduced I/O to the underlying storage, and higher storage capacity by enabling multiple files to share the same logical clusters.
• The new NVMe standard optimizes storage performance for fast solid state drives (SSDs) in Windows Server 2025, increasing IOPS and reducing CPU utilization.
• Enhancements to Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and Active Directory Lightweight Domain Services (AD LDS) help optimize domain management.
• VBS key protection protects against exfiltration assaults launched by an admin-level attacker.
• The new SMB authentication rate limiter guards against brute-force authentication attacks.
• The SMB client for Windows Server 2025 supports blocking NTLM authentication for remote outbound connections. This keeps attackers from fooling clients into sending NTLM requests to malicious servers, protecting against brute force, cracking, and pass-the-hash attacks.
• You can use Bluetooth to connect mice, keyboards, headsets, and other peripherals to Windows Server 2025.
• Starting with Windows Server 2012 R2, you can upgrade directly to Windows Server 2025 as many as four versions of Windows Server at a time.

Managing a Hybrid Cloud Environment with Windows Server 2025
You can integrate Windows Server 2025 into a unified hybrid solution by using Azure Arc services. Azure Arc provides centralized management of governance, security, configuration, and monitoring for Windows and Linux physical or virtual servers throughout your hybrid IT estate. This includes servers located on premises, hosted on Azure, on multiple public clouds such as AWS EC2 instances and Google Cloud, or in various edge deployments. By installing the Azure Connected Machine agent on each server, you can create a unified management experience that treats every system enrolled in a hybrid environment as an Azure resource that can benefit from standard Azure constructs such as Azure Policy and the application of tags.

Designing, implementing, managing, and troubleshooting cost-effective hybrid solutions that incorporate Windows Server 2025 requires in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience that is beyond the scope of most IT teams in small and midsize companies. Progent's roster of subject-matter experts (SMEs) can provide as-needed guidance for any aspect of hybrid network design and support. Progent's Microsoft-certified and Cisco-certified consultants, project managers, and network security experts can assist you assess the potential benefits of Windows Server 2025 for your business and build a hybrid IT environment that incorporates Windows Server 2025 and that provides maximum business value.

Migration Expertise from Progent
If you need guidance moving to Windows Server 2025 from an earlier version of Windows Server, Progent can provide the knowledge to make your migration smooth, within budget, and on schedule. Progent can help you:

• Inventory your applications and server roles running on your current Windows Servers
• Move your VMs from earlier versions of Windows Server to Windows Server 2025
• Review compliance and harden security across hybrid workloads
• Design a server management solution based on the most appropriate platforms for your situation

The two installation options available for Windows Server 2025 are Server Core and Server with Desktop Experience. Server Core supports conventional applications and role-based workloads but does not have a traditional desktop interface. This so-called "headless" version has the advantage of a small footprint with a correspondingly small attack surface, but it must be managed remotely via the command line, PowerShell, or a GUI utility such as Windows Admin Center. The Server with Desktop Experience option is a full installation and features a comprehensive GUI that permits local management. Progent's consultants can assist you to select the editions and installation options most appropriate for your environment, understand Microsoft's licensing requirements, and design a value-driven on-prem, cloud-hosted, or hybrid deployment model.

How Progent Can Help You with Windows Server 2025
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist you to plan and carry out an efficient and effective migration to Windows Server 2025 using your existing network model or a new on-premises, cloud-hosted, or hybrid architecture. Progent can show you how to use Microsoft's Storage Migration Service to save time and expense during the task of upgrading from legacy Windows Server releases, and Progent can help you take advantage of advanced features of Windows Server 2025. Progent's Exchange Server SE experts can advise you on optimizing the configuration of Exchange Server SE Mailbox and Edge Transport server roles and management utilities. Progent's SQL Server 2019 specialists can assist you to integrate Microsoft's flagship database platform with Windows Server 2025 to handle your key workloads in a modern network environment. In addition, Progent's VMware experts can help you onboard your on-premises VMware virtual machines to Azure Arc for Azure Management using the Azure Migrate: Discovery and Assessment utility.

Progent's certified network security consultants can assist you to adhere to industry best practices to build an advanced, uniform security profile across on-premises and cloud-hosted resources and mobile assets. Progent can assist your organization to implement proactive security monitoring and management by deploying cutting-edge cybersecurity technology and services from Microsoft and third-party vendors. Progent's security audit experts can assess your compliance with government and industry cybersecurity regulations and standards.

Progent's team of Cisco CCIE-certified network infrastructure experts is one of the largest of any independent IT services firm in the U.S. Progent can help you configure and maintain a reliable hybrid network infrastructure that utilizes the high-availability and disaster recovery technologies built into Windows Server 2025. Progent's disaster recovery experts and business continuity consultants can assist your company to design and validate a detailed strategy for restoring IT services rapidly after a catastrophe.

To streamline the management of your Windows Server 2025 network, Progent offers a selection of services such as Azure Arc expertise, Windows Admin Center consulting, PowerShell scripting, System Center Virtual Machine Manager hybrid cloud management consulting, and System Center Operations Manager integration. Progent also offers the ProSight family of remote monitoring and management (RMM) services that offer small and midsize companies an affordable and effective alternative to using in-house IT staff for managing servers and network infrastructure.

Download a Datasheet for Progent's Windows Server 2025 Consulting Services
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Progent's Online Consulting and Troubleshooting Services
Progent has more than 20 years of experience providing online IT consulting and troubleshooting support and has delivered remote technical support to organizations in every state in the U.S. (Refer to Progent's Customer Testimonials.) Progent can also provide on-premises consulting and support services in major metropolitan areas throughout the United States. Progent can deliver as-needed expertise to help you resolve stubborn technical problems as they occur or Progent can deliver comprehensive project management outsourcing and co-sourcing services for major IT initiatives.

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Contact Progent for Help with Windows Server 2025
For more information about Progent's consulting and troubleshooting services for Windows Server 2025, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.