{"id":21958,"date":"2018-01-24T03:31:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T18:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/announcing-windows-server-insider-preview-build-17079\/"},"modified":"2018-01-24T18:08:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T09:08:21","slug":"announcing-windows-server-insider-preview-build-17079","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/announcing-windows-server-insider-preview-build-17079\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Windows Server Insider Preview Build 17079"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Announcing Windows Server Insider Preview Build 17079<\/p>\n<p>Hello Windows Insiders!<\/p>\n<p>Today we are releasing Windows Server Insider Preview Build 17079 to Windows Server Insiders. This build is a preview build of the next Semi-Annual Channel release of Windows Server. For more information on the Semi-Annual channel, please see the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/get-started\/semi-annual-channel-overview\">Windows Server Semi-Annual Channel overview<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>What\u2019s New in Build 17079 for Windows Server<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>In-place OS Upgrade:<\/strong> Customers are now able to upgrade their Windows Server, version 1709 installations to the current preview build using In-place OS Upgrade. This feature is available starting in build 17079. This feature also enables customers to perform build-to-build upgrade of the next released preview build.<\/p>\n<p>Running setup.exe, customers should be presented with the option to \u201cKeep personal files and apps\u201d, which causes the migration steps in setup.exe to run and upgrade Windows Server while preserving applications, data, and user settings.<\/p>\n<p>Please refer to the Known Issues section below for additional information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us more.<\/strong> How might your organization benefit from upgrade functionality? Please let us know by completing this short survey. Thanks in advance.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveygizmo.com\/s3\/4127052\/d57e05b4c740\">Survey link <\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Developers and Containers<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Optimized Server Core container base images (30% smaller). Available on Windows Insider Docker Hub <a href=\"https:\/\/hub.docker.com\/r\/microsoft\/windowsservercore-insider\/\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>MSMQ now installs in a Server Core container<\/li>\n<li>Key Application Compatibility bug fixes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more details, please see the Window Virtualization Blog <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/virtualization\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Available Content<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Server Insiders have the choice of Server Core Edition in ISO or VHDX format. The images are pre-keyed &#8211; no need to enter a key during setup.<\/p>\n<p>Symbols are available on the public symbol server \u2013 see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/windbg\/2017\/10\/18\/update-on-microsofts-symbol-server\/\">Update on Microsoft\u2019s Symbol Server<\/a> blog post and <a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/library\/windows\/desktop\/ee416588(v=vs.85).aspx#using_the_microsoft_symbol_server\">Using the Microsoft Symbol Server<\/a>. As before, matching Windows Server container images will be available via Docker Hub. For more information about Windows Server containers and Insider builds, click <a href=\"http:\/\/aka.ms\/containers\/insiders\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This Server Insider pre-release build will expire on July 2nd, 2018.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>How to Download\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>To obtain the Insider software downloads, registered Insiders may navigate directly to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/software-download\/windowsinsiderpreviewserver\">Windows Server Insider Preview download page<\/a>.\u00a0 If you have not yet registered as an Insider, see <a href=\"https:\/\/insider.windows.com\/en-us\/for-business-getting-started-server\/\">GETTING STARTED WITH SERVER<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/insider.windows.com\/ForBusiness\">Windows Insiders for Business<\/a> portal.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>It&#8217;s all about your feedback!\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The most important part of a frequent release cycle is to hear what\u2019s working and what needs to be improved, so your feedback is extremely valued. Use your registered Windows 10 Insider device and use the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/help\/4021566\/windows-10-send-feedback-to-microsoft-with-feedback-hub-app\">Feedback Hub<\/a> application. In the app, choose the <strong>Server<\/strong> category and then the appropriate subcategory for your feedback. Please indicate what <strong>build number<\/strong> you are providing feedback on.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Known issues\u00a0with Windows Server build 17079<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>[NEW] When Hypervisor Code Integrity (HVCI) is enabled, a system may fail to start. On affected systems, firmware locates UEFI runtime services in memory described as Memory-Mapped I\/O (MMIO).<\/li>\n<li>Running nanoserver-insider containers on a Windows Server Core host will fail, and may crash the host.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>As a workaround, you can add \u201c\u2014isolation=hyperv\u201d when running or building the containers such as \u201cdocker run \u2013isolation=hyperv microsoft\/nanoserver-insider\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Known Issues with In-place OS Upgrade<\/h2>\n<p>(1) Drives that are protected with BitLocker should have BitLocker suspended (disabled) before In-place OS Upgrade, and resumed (enabled) after In-place OS Upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>(2) AD Domain Controllers might not upgrade correctly \u2013 please backup any AD DC before applying In-place OS Upgrade.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Terms of Use<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>All pre-release software made available to you via the Windows Server Insider program are governed by the Insider Terms of Use, which takes precedence over any license agreement that may be in the product.<\/p>\n<p>No downtime for Hustle-As-A-Service,<br \/>\nDona &lt;3<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windowsexperience\/2018\/01\/23\/announcing-windows-server-insider-preview-build-17079\/\" target=\"_blank\">Announcing Windows Server Insider Preview Build 17079<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Announcing Windows Server Insider Preview Build 17079 Hello Windows Insiders! Today we are releasing Windows Server Insider Preview Build 17079 to Windows Server Insiders. This build is a preview build of the next Semi-Annual Channel release of Windows Server. For more information on the Semi-Annual channel, please see the Windows Server Semi-Annual Channel overview What\u2019s New in Build 17079 for Windows Server In-place OS Upgrade: Customers are now able to upgrade their Windows Server, version 1709 installations to the current preview build using In-place OS Upgrade. This feature is available starting in build 17079. This feature also enables customers to perform build-to-build upgrade of the next released preview build. Running setup.exe, customers should be presented with the option to \u201cKeep personal files and apps\u201d, which causes the migration steps in setup.exe to run and upgrade Windows Server while preserving applications, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/announcing-windows-server-insider-preview-build-17079\/\" title=\"Announcing Windows Server Insider Preview Build 17079\">[ more&#8230; ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[201],"class_list":["post-21958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-windows"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21959,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21958\/revisions\/21959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}