Microsoft ships Windows Server 2022 Insider build 17744

Windows Server 2022 testers can go their hands on a fresh new build today. Microsoft has shipped out build 17744, bringing along several Hyper-V improvements and new features. But while the new features and fixes may grab about of your attention, there's also a healthy list of known issues to be aware of.

What'due south new

Installation no longer prompts for a product key. Microsoft Hyper-V Server is an enterprise hypervisor that is provided at no additional toll.
Administrators are now properly prompted to modify their passwords when initially signing in.
Updated installation branding.
Failover Clustering hardening. Failover Clustering no longer requires the use of NTLM.
Server Message Block (SMB) hardening. SMB 1.0 is disabled past default.
Windows Subsystem for Linux is built in.
Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection is built in.
.Cyberspace Framework 4.seven is built-in. (Microsoft Hyper-5 Server 2022 included .Cyberspace Framework 4.six).
Finally, Microsoft Hyper-V Server can be fully managed by Windows Admin Center to provide a modern, remote management solution that integrates with Azure Backup, disaster recovery, and more.

Known problems

[NEW] After a system running Server Core is transitioned (transmogrified) to Server Datacenter–for case, past running the control dism /online /setedition:ServerDatacenterCor /ProductKey:production-key/AcceptEula–the operating organisation is not licensed. On an affected system, the administrator is not instructed to restart the system, and the operating organization indicates that information technology is a retail channel version rather than a Generic Volume License Key (GVLK) version, even when the product key is a GVLK primal. To make an affected system licensed, run the post-obit command: cscript c:\Windows\System32\slmgr.vbs /ipkproduct-fundamental.
[NEW] The Italian language (information technology-IT) text of the End-User License Understanding (EULA) for Hyper-5 Server is formatted incorrectly.
The operating system has an unnecessary utility business relationship for Windows Defender Application Guard.
Authentication that uses Public Key Cryptography User-to-User (PKU2U) to access an SMB volume can result in an error, STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE, due to an invalid private key in the document for a cluster-created user account (CSUSR) on each cluster node. This consequence tin cause cross-cluster migration in cluster sets to fail, as well equally possibly cause global namespace mappings to fail, leading to virtual machines existence unable to admission storage.
The Base Filtering Engine service may consume an inordinate amount of memory after starting and stopping thousands of containers.
The Virtual Difficult Disk Miniport Driver (Vhdmp.sys) may experience a issues bank check, SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (7e).
When a Windows Defender Awarding Guard container crashes, the resulting type of dump may be unexpected.
On contempo preview builds, database applications might not be able to initialize a database and fail with a stack overflow or insufficient privileges when the database is located on an SMB volume.
Shielded VMs running Linux exercise not boot. The loader (LSVMLoad) waits for a passphrase for the boot partitioning.
Creating or modifying environment variables by using setx fails on a system running in a Nano Container (that is, Nano Server equally a container image). On an affected organization, setx requires a specific path in the registry, HKCU\Surroundings\, to exist by default. You tin can work around this issue past changing where the variable is stored in the registry, or you tin add together the expected registry path before executing setx commands. To specify that the variable be set for system-wide use in HKLM rather than in HKCU, the default, add together the /M switch to a setx command. To instead add the expected registry path, run reg add together HKCU\Environment before executing setx commands.

Windows Server preview build 17744 is available to download now via Microsoft. The build is fix to expire on December 14, 2022.

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