Windows Server 2025 What’s New in Active Directory
Windows Server 2025 What’s New in Active Directory and not only:
- RTM in April 2024 (Microsoft Build Conference?)
- Domain/Forest level 2025
- 32K instead 8K page size (speed)
- NUMA Support
- Replication Priority
- Kerberos AES-SHA2
- Deprecating NTLM
- IAKerb (Local KDC)
- DC Locator Improvements
- LDAP improvements e.g. confidential attributes
- SMB auth limiter
- SMB Signing required
- SMB over QUIC
- SMB alternate ports
- SMB mandate encryption
See all of them on YouTube (Lets use Copilot to do recap):
- http://aka.ms/ADTT32kPagesDemo
- http://aka.ms/ADTTNumaDemo
- http://aka.ms/ADTTDCLocatorDemo
- http://aka.ms/ADTTDmsaDemo
- http://aka.ms/ADTTLsalookupDemo
- http://aka.ms/ADTTDCLocPerfDemo
- http://aka.ms/ADTTLdapPerfDemo
- https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/storage-at-microsoft/smb-signing-required-by-default-in-windows-insider/ba-p/3831704
- https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/storage-at-microsoft/smb-alternative-ports-now-supported-in-windows-insider/ba-p/3974509
Windows Server 2025 – try it now:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windowsinsiderpreviewserver