Greater security
New and enhanced and multi-layered security features make it easier to protect infrastructure such as data and programs.
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 Software-Defined Datacenter with Windows Server 2022 achieves greater scalability and overall security combined with outstanding cost efficiency.
New and enhanced and multi-layered security features make it easier to protect infrastructure such as data and programs.
Windows Server 2022 combines on-premises infrastructure with hybrid capabilities to take you into the cloud as far as you choose.
Multiple enhancements for deploying container-based applications.
Easily deploy and manage remote apps and desktops to enable employees to work securely and conveniently anytime, anywhere.
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.
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.
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).
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 |
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).
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.
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 |
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