The enhanced, more secure
server operating system

Always be well prepared
More home office, virtual conferences everywhere and e-shopping wherever you look; Covid-19 has shifted everyday business life into the digital world for good. Demands placed on IT have increased enormously and the weaknesses in digitalisation have been ruthlessly exposed. Never before has it been so important to ensure that your IT systems are up to scratch. Nowadays, all sectors need to be prepared and well equipped, and need to systematically push ahead with optimising their own operations in order to remain competitive and fit for the future.

The basis for this is an efficient, agile and secure IT within a business that provides and protects applications and data, supports growing productivity and responds quickly to changes at all times. Windows Server 2022 provides an essential building block for making your infrastructure more secure, faster, more flexible and state-of-the-art.

Windows Server 2022 offers options for this such as secured-core solutions with multiple layers of security, the Windows Admin Center for easier administration, Windows Server Software-Defined Datacenter for greater efficiency and virtualisation of remote desktops and apps, as well as containerisation for the flexible deployment of modern apps.

The most advanced Windows
Server operating system

The Software-Defined Datacenter with Windows Server 2022 achieves greater scalability and overall security combined with outstanding cost efficiency.

Greater security

New and enhanced and multi-layered security features make it easier to protect infrastructure such as data and programs.

Cloud-ready

Windows Server 2022 combines on-premises infrastructure with hybrid capabilities to take you into the cloud as far as you choose.

Greater flexibility

Multiple enhancements for deploying container-based applications.

Working remotely

Easily deploy and manage remote apps and desktops to enable employees to work securely and conveniently anytime, anywhere.

Windows Admin Center,
efficient management
all the way to the cloud

Windows Admin Center incorporates the classic graphical administration interface of Windows Server and facilitates the operation and smooth integration of Azure services such as Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery and Azure Security Center.

The combination of Azure Arc and Windows Admin Center allows the entire hybrid infrastructure to be controlled as well as monitored, for example, using the new event viewer and gateway proxy support for Azure-connected scenarios.

Azure Arc manages Windows servers locally as well as in multi-cloud infrastructures.
Azure Monitor provides detailed insights into the infrastructure and applications.
Azure Automanage automates time-consuming and error-prone administrative tasks.
Storage Migration Service migrates file servers from on-premise to the cloud.

Enhanced
multi-layered
security

Microsoft is significantly increasing the level of security with Windows Server 2022. For example, businesses can operate securely in the face of threats when multi-layered Secured Core security capabilities that extend across hardware, firmware as well as the operating system itself protect your business's infrastructure, data and applications from attack, spying, theft and manipulation.

Secured-core Server combines security for hardware and firmware with the operating system. An important component for this on the hardware side is the Trusted Platform Module 2.0 (TPM 2.0), as this provides secure storage for cryptographic keys to enable certificates to be digitally signed.
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) helps detect and prevent zero-day vulnerabilities as well as network attacks and data leaks.
Preventive protection mechanisms detect malware at an early stage and repel it.
End-to-end encryption can be easily implemented to prevent data from being intercepted on untrusted networks.
Secure connectivity based on encrypted data transmission with Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 and HTTPS.
Windows Defender Exploit Guard can be used to prevent intrusion attempts targeting the host.

Secured-core Server combines security for hardware and firmware with the operating system. An important component for this on the hardware side is the Trusted Platform Module 2.0 (TPM 2.0), as this provides secure storage for cryptographic keys to enable certificates to be digitally signed.
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) helps detect and prevent zero-day vulnerabilities as well as network attacks and data leaks.
Preventive protection mechanisms detect malware at an early stage and repel it.
End-to-end encryption can be easily implemented to prevent data from being intercepted on untrusted networks.
Secure connectivity based on encrypted data transmission with Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 and HTTPS.
Windows Defender Exploit Guard can be used to prevent intrusion attempts targeting the host.

Windows Server 2022 versions

All three editions of Windows Server 2022 offered by Microsoft run on RECT™ servers, to match the size of your business and your virtualisation and data centre requirements:

CAL (Client Access License)
CALs sind Zugriffsrechte, die für die Nutzung in Client-/Server-Umgebungen neben der Serverlizenz benötigt werden. So ist es beim Windows Server (Standard wie Datacenter) erforderlich für alle Clients, die auf den Server zugreifen, ein Zugriffsrecht zu lizenzieren. Microsoft unterscheidet dabei zwei CAL-Arten:
1. das Zugriffsrecht für den Benutzer (User CAL), 2. das Zugriffsrecht für ein Geräte (Device CAL).

Windows Server 2022 versions

All three editions of Windows Server 2022 offered by Microsoft run on RECT™ servers, to match the size of your business and your virtualisation and data centre requirements:

Essentials Edition	Standard Edition	Datacenter Edition
A solution for small businesses with broad IT needs to get their first server up and running or to modernise an existing server. The Essentials Edition includes a licence for up to 25 users and 50 devices and limits the hardware equipment of the server to 10 physical cores for the server CPU.	Ideal for small and medium-sized enterprises with purely physical or only minimally virtualised environments that require comprehensive functions in their IT landscape, including at distributed locations.	Ideal for businesses of all sizes implementing challenging IT workloads in highly virtualised and software-defined data centre environments, requiring advanced storage, virtualisation and application deployment.
25 users/50 devices	Unlimited, CALs must be purchased separately	Unlimited, CALs must be purchased separately
A maximum of 1 CPU and a maximum of 10 physical CPU cores	Licensed according to cores	Licensed according to cores
1 physical or virtual instance	1 physical installation or 2 VMs	Unlimited number of VMs
-/-	2 Hyper-V containers	Unlimited number of Hyper-V containers

Essentials Server is now even more powerful

Microsoft is making substantial changes to the scope of the Essentials licence in Windows Server 2022. While a maximum of 25 users and 50 devices are still allowed to access the server, the CPU used is now limited on the hardware side. The Essentials licence accordingly supports a maximum of one CPU with a maximum of 10 cores, while the memory restriction of 64 GB that still applied in Windows Server 2019 Essentials has now been dropped. In addition, Essentials may continue to be used as an RDS host as well as a Hyper-V host; however, there is a maximum of one virtual license provided for this. In terms of functionality, however, the Essentials Edition is now significantly more powerful, as Microsoft no longer restricts the feature set. Data deduplication and storage migration services are therefore now a normal part of the Essential Server's range of functions. This is why the Essentials Edition also reports as Windows Server 2022 Standard after installation.

Die Generationen im Vergleich

	Start date	Mainstream support until	Extended support until
Windows Server 2012	30/10/2012	09/10/2018	10/10/2023
Windows Server 2012 R2	25/11/2013	09/10/2018	10/10/2023
Windows Server 2016	15/10/2016	11/01/2022	12/01/2027
Windows Server 2019	13/11/2018	09/01/2024	09/01/2029

	Start date	Mainstream support until	Extended support until
Windows Server 2012	30/10/2012	09/10/2018	10/10/2023
Windows Server 2012 R2	25/11/2013	09/10/2018	10/10/2023
Windows Server 2016	15/10/2016	11/01/2022	12/01/2027
Windows Server 2019	13/11/2018	09/01/2024	09/01/2029

A selection –
as if tailor-made for
Windows Server 2022

7th Generation

Tower-Server with AMD Ryzen™ 7000 Processors

RECT™ TS-5428R4

AMD Ryzen™ 7000 series CPUs in RECT™ Tower-Server:

up to AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950X3D
(4.20 GHz, 16 cores, 128 MB cache)
NEW: up to 192 GB DDR5 ECC RAM
up to 96 TB storage capacity in 4 hot-swap trays
Remote Management Features (IPMI 2.0)
onboard: 2x 1Gbit or 2x 10 Gbit LAN ports

starting at

1,540 €

The 5th Generation!

Intel Xeon Scalable of the 5rd Generation in Tower Server

RECT™ TS-5491R8

brand-new Single Socket RECT™ Tower Server comprehensively scalable:

NEW: equipped with newest Intel® Xeon® Scalable CPU of the 5th Generation
(up to 64 Cores, 128 Threads)
up to 1 TB DDR5-4800 ECC RAM
scalable traditional storage with SSDs or HDDs for up to 192 TB capacity
onboard: 2x 1Gbit or 10Gbit LAN ports
three PCIe 5.0 expansion slots
Proxmox VE Ready

starting at

2,435 €

Genoa. Immersive Power!

Tower Server with brand-new AMD EPYC 9004 CPUs up to 96 Cores

RECT™ TS-5439R8

now with AMD EPYC™ 9004 Series Processors - up to 96 cores and 192 Threads:

Single socket up to AMD EPYC 9654P (96 Cores, 2.40 GHz, 384 MB Cache)
up to 1.5 TB DDR5-4800 ECC RAM
Ultra-fast Storage with all-new
PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs
up to 192 TB HDD/SSD storage
onboard: 2x 1Gbit or 2x 10Gbit LAN
five PCIe 5.0 Expansion Slots
Proxmox VE Ready

starting at

3,111 €

Raptor - Intel Xeon E

1U Rack Server with all-new Intel Xeon E-2400 Processors

RECT™ RS-8573R4

Intel Xeon® E-2400 Processor Generation "Raptor Lake" in 1U Rack Server:

Single Intel® Xeon® E-2400 processor with up to 8 Cores, 3.50 GHz (Turbo up to 5.60 GHz) and 24 MB Smart Cache
NEW: up to 192 GB DDR5 ECC RAM
up to 96 TB SSD/HDD storage in 4 hot-swap trays
up to two M.2 NVMe SSDs (PCIe 4.0)
Network: 2x or 4x 1Gbit LAN ports

starting at

1,680 €

Genoa-X Power

1U Rack Server with brand-new AMD EPYC 9004 CPUs up to 128 Cores

RECT™ RS-8539N12

now with latest AMD EPYC™ 9004 processors - up to 128 cores and 256 Threads:

NEW: Single socket up to AMD EPYC 9754 (128 Cores, 2.25 GHz, 256 MB Cache)
up to 3 TB DDR5-4800 ECC RAM
up to 184 TB storage with SSDs (NVMe/SATA/SAS*) in 12 hot-swap trays
three PCIe 5.0 expansion slots and one OCP 3.0 slot
Proxmox VE ready

starting at

4,397 €

Xeon 5. Generation!

Single Intel Xeon Scalable in 2U Rack Server with Hybrid Backplane

RECT™ RS-8691N8

brand-new 2U RECT™ Rack Server comprehensively scalable:

NEW: equipped with one Intel® Xeon® Scalable CPU of the 5th Generation up to 64 Cores, 128 Threads and 60 MB Cache
up to 1 TB DDR5-4800 ECC RAM
4x 2.5" NVMe SSDs in hot-swap trays
scalable storage with SSDs/HDDs up to 192 TB capacity
onboard: 2x 1Gbit or 10Gbit LAN ports
Proxmox VE ready

starting at

2,568 €