Key Features

Unlimited Virtualization and Hyper-V Support: Windows Server 2025 Datacenter offers an unlimited virtualization license, allowing organizations to run as many virtual machines (VMs) as they need on a single physical server. This flexibility is crucial for large enterprises and data centers that require dense server utilization, as it enables substantial resource savings and allows for effective workload isolation. The Hyper-V role, supported in this edition, further enhances virtualized infrastructure management, giving administrators control over VM networking, storage, and computing resources.

Advanced Security Features: The Datacenter edition is packed with enhanced security capabilities designed to safeguard against advanced cyber threats. Shielded VMs provide encryption and access controls to protect sensitive data in virtualized environments. Enhanced protection through Microsoft Defender for Identity, along with network security improvements, help to secure both on-premises and hybrid infrastructures. Windows Server 2025 Datacenter also incorporates Just-in-Time (JIT) administration and Just Enough Administration (JEA), reducing the risk of privilege escalation and insider threats.

Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) and Software-Defined Storage (SDS): Advanced storage solutions are critical in large-scale environments, and Windows Server 2025 Datacenter delivers with Storage Spaces Direct (S2D), a powerful storage feature that pools local storage into a single, virtualized storage solution. With S2D, organizations can create resilient storage clusters that offer high availability and fault tolerance. Additionally, software-defined storage (SDS) enhances the flexibility and scalability of storage management, making it easier to handle large data workloads without complex hardware setups.

Software-Defined Networking (SDN): Windows Server 2025 Datacenter brings software-defined networking (SDN) features, giving IT teams the ability to virtualize network resources, manage network traffic, and optimize security policies. This capability helps enterprises easily deploy and scale network resources according to workload requirements and improves network flexibility in hybrid cloud environments. SDN also simplifies network segmentation and isolation, improving both security and efficiency in large, complex infrastructures.

Hybrid Cloud Capabilities with Azure Integration: Hybrid cloud readiness is a core feature of Windows Server 2025 Datacenter, making it easy to connect on-premises infrastructure with Microsoft Azure. With Azure Arc compatibility, administrators can manage resources across both on-premises and cloud environments using a centralized management interface. Built-in options for Azure Backup and Site Recovery enable seamless data protection and disaster recovery, providing critical resilience and business continuity. Azure integration also includes improved support for cloud-native applications and containers.

Cluster Sets and Scale-Out Clustering: Windows Server 2025 Datacenter supports cluster sets, which enable enterprises to create large-scale clusters for high-availability applications. Cluster sets improve workload distribution and resource utilization, allowing IT teams to scale out services while maintaining system stability and availability. This feature is essential for enterprises that rely on high-performance computing and need consistent availability for mission-critical applications.

Windows Server 2025 Datacenter is particularly suited for large enterprises, data centers, and organizations with demanding infrastructure needs:

Data Centers and Large Enterprises: With its unlimited virtualization rights, Windows Server 2025 Datacenter is perfect for environments where extensive server consolidation is required. Data centers and large enterprises that operate multiple VMs benefit from the ability to run numerous instances per physical server, optimizing resource allocation and reducing licensing costs.

Hybrid Cloud Deployments: Organizations that rely on hybrid or multi-cloud environments will benefit from Azure Arc integration, which simplifies management and security across on-premises and cloud resources. This capability is ideal for enterprises needing seamless cloud scaling and centralized management.

High-Performance Workloads and Mission-Critical Applications: For businesses that depend on high availability and performance, the Datacenter edition’s support for Cluster Sets and Scale-Out Clustering ensures consistent uptime for applications. Industries such as finance, healthcare, and technology can rely on these features to maintain business continuity and meet service-level agreements (SLAs).

Highly Regulated Industries: With its strong emphasis on security, including shielded VMs, JEA, and JIT administration, Windows Server 2025 Datacenter is ideal for industries with strict data protection requirements, such as government, healthcare, and financial services. These features help protect sensitive data and meet compliance standards.

Min Hard Drive Space: 32 GB
Min Processor Speed: 1.4 GHz
Min RAM Size: 2GB
Peripheral Interface Devices: DVD-ROM, Internet connection, Keyboard, Mouse or compatible device, SVGA monitor

NOTE: If you use an evaluation version of Windows Server, then to activate you need to convert your evaluation version to the full version using DISM, since the evaluation version without conversion cannot be activated

Key Features:

Virtualization and Container Support: Windows Server 2025 Standard continues Microsoft’s strong support for virtualized environments and containers. Businesses can run two virtual machines (VMs) and one Hyper-V host per license, making it ideal for organizations needing basic virtualized environments for resource optimization. Enhanced container support provides greater flexibility for modern applications, allowing seamless deployment across cloud and on-premises environments.

Enhanced Security Features: With rising cyber threats, security is a major focus in Windows Server 2025. New security protocols include better encryption options, improved Active Directory protection, and more robust identity management tools. Microsoft Defender for Identity and network security enhancements help prevent and detect potential intrusions. Additionally, Windows Server 2025 Standard integrates with Azure Arc, allowing centralized security and management for hybrid and multi-cloud deployments.

Efficient Storage Solutions: Windows Server 2025 Standard offers several options to optimize storage management. Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) and other storage pooling technologies let users consolidate and manage resources efficiently. Built-in deduplication, compression, and tiered storage make it easier to manage data storage at scale, saving costs on both storage and maintenance.

System Insights and Analytics: System Insights provides predictive analytics to help administrators anticipate potential system issues before they occur. This feature uses machine learning to analyze usage patterns, generate insights, and give actionable recommendations to optimize performance. Enhanced monitoring and analytics tools make server management simpler, helping IT staff reduce downtime and plan resources more effectively.

Application Compatibility and Performance: With a focus on performance, Windows Server 2025 Standard supports a wide range of applications, including web services, databases, and custom business applications. It is optimized for high-demand environments, providing reliable uptime and faster processing for mission-critical tasks. Improved compatibility and support for modern app frameworks ensure a seamless experience when hosting applications or integrating with other Microsoft products like SQL Server, Microsoft 365, and Azure.

Hybrid Cloud Integration with Azure: Windows Server 2025 Standard is built with hybrid cloud scenarios in mind, allowing businesses to extend their on-premises resources to the cloud. Azure Arc compatibility enables a unified management plane, making it easy to monitor, manage, and secure resources across cloud and on-premises environments. Azure Backup and Site Recovery options provide additional resiliency and disaster recovery solutions, crucial for business continuity.

Windows Server 2025 Standard is ideal for businesses needing reliable performance and scalable virtualization without requiring extensive cloud-native features. It’s especially suited for:

Small to Medium Businesses (SMBs): With the Standard edition’s licensing, SMBs can deploy multiple VMs efficiently, creating isolated environments for different departments or purposes, such as testing and production.

Hybrid Cloud Environments: Organizations that need to integrate on-premises infrastructure with cloud resources will benefit from Azure Arc integration. This capability is perfect for businesses adopting hybrid or multi-cloud models, as it provides a consistent management experience across environments.

Application Hosting: Windows Server 2025 Standard provides a stable platform for hosting business applications, including ERP systems, CRM software, databases, and web services. High compatibility with Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft 365 make it particularly well-suited for enterprises already using Microsoft’s software ecosystem.

Min Hard Drive Space: 32 GB
Min Processor Speed: 1.4 GHz
Min RAM Size: 2GB
Peripheral Interface Devices: DVD-ROM, Internet connection, Keyboard, Mouse or compatible device, SVGA monitor

NOTE: If you use an evaluation version of Windows Server, then to activate you need to convert your evaluation version to the full version using DISM, since the evaluation version without conversion cannot be activated

Code faster, Work smarter. Create the future with Visual Studio 2022 Enterprise. Visual Studio Enterprise Visual Studio Enterprise is a powerful, comprehensive IDE for developers designing, building, testing, and deploying complex applications for any platform—including the Microsoft stack.

Your ideas deserve the best tools:

• Productive – Scale to work on projects of any size and complexity with a 64-bit IDE. Code with a new Razor editor that can refactor across files. Diagnose issues with visualizations for async operations and automatic analyzers.
• Modern – Develop cross-platform mobile and desktop apps with .NET MAUI. Build responsive Web UIs in C# with Blazor. Build, debug, and test .NET and C++ apps in Linux environments. Use hot reload capabilities across .NET and C++ apps. Edit running ASP.NET pages in the web designer view.
• Innovative – AI-powered code completions. Work together in real-time with shared coding sessions. Clone repos, navigate work items, and stage individual lines for commits. Automatically set up CI/CD workflows that can deploy to Azure.

Visual Studio 2022 is the best Visual Studio ever. Our first 64-bit IDE makes it easier to work with even bigger projects and more complex workloads. The stuff you do every day—like typing code and switching branches—feels more fluid more responsive. And out-of-memory errors? They’re about to be a distant memory.

Inside the code editor:

• Type less, code more – IntelliCode is a powerful set of automatic code completion tools that understand your code context: variable names, functions, and the type of code you’re writing. This makes IntelliCode able to complete up to a whole line at once, helping you code more accurately and confidently.
• Deep insights into your code – CodeLens helps you easily find important insights, like what changes have been made, what those changes did, and whether you’ve run unit testing on your method. Essential information—like references, authors, tests, and commit historyis right there to guide you toward the best and most informed decisions about your work.

Getting you ready to ship:

• Stop problems before they’re problems – Integrated debugging is a core part of every Visual Studio product. You can step through your code and look at the values stored in variables, set watches on variables to see when values change, examine the execution path of your code, and just about anything else you need to check out under the hood.
• Instant impact – Analyze how much code you’re testing and see instant results in a test suite that’s been optimized for efficiency. Know the impact of every change you make with advanced features that test code as you type. With WSL integration, you can test on both Windows and Linux to make sure your app runs everywhere.

Seamless cloud integration:

• Azure deployment – Deploying to the cloud gets even easier. We supply all the templates you’ll need for common application types and local emulators. And you can stay right in Visual Studio to provision dependencies, like Azure SQL databases and Azure Storage accounts. You can even diagnose any issues quickly with the remote debugger attached directly to your application.
• Integrated version control – Visual Studio 2022 has built-in support for Git version control to clone, create, and open your own repositories. The Git tool window has everything you need for committing and pushing changes to code, managing branches, and resolving merge conflicts. If you have a GitHub account, you can manage those repos directly within Visual Studio.

System requirements:

• 1.8 GHz or faster processor
• 2 GB of RAM (1.5 GB if running on a virtual machine)
• 40 GB of available hard disk space
• 600 MB of available hard disk space (language pack)
• 5400 RPM hard drive
• DirectX 9-capable video card running at 1024 x 768 or higher display resolution
• Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022

This enables companies to create their own apps and programs, for example to support a cloud application or customer loyalty.

The Visual Studio, which provides efficient and stable support in program development, can also be seen in its long-term availability.

This system has been supporting software developers since 1997, and new applications and functions have been added with each variant.

Visual Studio 2019 Professional also helps developers with a variety of new programs. The developer platform is available for MacOS and Windows.

You can see below which requirements are necessary and which advantages your company gets by using the developer environment.

The following programming languages are supported by Visual Studio 2019:

• C ++
• Visual Basic
• C # and F #
• JavaScript, HTML and CSS for web development

By providing the tools for web development, you can create dynamic websites and complex web services, such as functions for connecting a home office or an online shop.

Since the high-level languages are supported, the development of games with Visual Studio is also feasible.

This system has its own code editor for each programming language, which is made available to you. The cursor-based help is just as interesting.

In the event of a misspelled or ambiguous code statement, the platform will show you this as an error. The editors provided can also be used to create programs at the same time.

If you are writing code, you will want to test it out during development. Visual Studio provides a variety of tools for debugging and errors are displayed to you immediately.

A few mistakes always creep in with larger development projects. With the code analysis, which is integrated in Visual Studio, the developer platform provides the following options.

You can use analysis tools for the management of codes in the programming languages C # and Visual Basic or you can use C and C ++ to analyze the complexity of your code and measure it.

Furthermore, with Visual Studio 2019, the creation of cloud-capable applications for Azure using a collection of tools is possible without difficulty.

All available Azure resources of the accounts used are shown to the programming team by the Cloud Explorer.

System requirements:

• Processor and computer: 1.8 gigahertz (GHz) processor or faster
• RAM: 2GB RAM (4GB RAM recommended)
• Hard disk: depending on the features installed, up to 130 GB
• Screen: DirectX 9-capable graphics card with at least 1024×768 resolution
• Operating system: Windows 10, Windows 8 (KB2919355 required), Windows 7, Windows Server 2012 R2 (KB2919355 required)

System requirements:

• Processor: 1.6 GHz or faster, 2-core processor.
• Memory / RAM: 4 GB or more for 64-bit; 2 GB or more for 32-bit based systems.
• Hard disk: A minimum of 4GB of available hard disk space is required on the installation harddrive.
• Operating System: Windows 10 or Windows 11 is required for Office 2021 apps.
• Graphics: Graphics hardware acceleration requires DirectX 9 or later, with WDDM 2.0 or higher on Windows 10.
• .NET version: Some features may require .NET 3.5 or 4.6 and higher to also be installed.
• Doesn’t link to Microsoft account.

Visio 2021 is the ultimate tool for professionals who need to collaborate on a single project, even if they’re working remotely. It includes updated shapes and templates that make it easier than ever before to share your ideas!

The new version provides seamless team collaboration so multiple people can work on diagrams simultaneously. With improved support for teams of all sizes as well as features like Team Collaboration, you’ll never again have trouble explaining complicated information with easy-to-understand diagrams.

Data visualizations are a key component of any data-driven project. Visio 2021 Professional has built-in services that allow users to create complex flow charts, timelines, and maps as well as share their ideas with colleagues via email or SharePoint — all without leaving the Office suite!

Visio 2021 Professional is a revolutionary tool for creating diagrams that can be edited by your team anytime, anywhere. With Visio, you’ll have access to all of the data from any device, reducing downtime and potential missed deadlines.

The intuitive interface takes no time at all to master and makes it easy to use the capabilities of the newest Visio app. Templates and pre-made wireframe diagrams help you get inspired even if graphics aren’t exactly what’s on your mind right now. With many new pre-made templates available, you’ll never run out of inspiration again.

If you want to work smarter, easier and more successfully then Visio 2021 Professional is for you. With its integration with other Microsoft products like SharePoint or Office 365, this program is essential!

With Visio 2021 Professional, you’ll be able to take your design and diagrams one step further than ever before. This new edition includes all of the features from previous editions as well as a few extra ones!

Visio 2021 Professional is the most efficient and stable version of Visio yet, with improved performance on all Windows-based systems. With this new update, you can expect to experience faster operations that will allow for a smoother workflow in your workday!

The new and improved Start experience will help you start your project the right way. With a modernized ribbon, updated tabs in Visio 2021 Professional’s tab bar for easier access to tools. The all-new Monoline iconography communicates action with simple visuals. It doesn’t get any more convenient than this!

Visio 2021 Professional’s new flexible templates and thousands of shapes increase productivity by providing ready-made visualizations to make your work easier when using this program. To convey metadata inherent in Visio designs, use visual cues such as dimension change, colors, and more.

In Visio 2021 Professional, Microsoft has released a slew of new stencils to help you create up-to-date Azure diagrams. These new stencils may be used to create Azure diagrams for network topologies, virtual machine settings, and processes, among other things.

The new supported infrastructure forms from another major cloud provider, Amazon Web Services (AWS), are another significant addition to Visio 2021 Professional. Stencils can now be used with the latest AWS shapes to aid in the creation of diagrams.

With the updated Office stock media library, you can create professional slides with rich media content that will take any presentation from good to great! Microsoft is constantly adding more shapes and icons to this collection — check back often for fresh additions or sign up for Microsoft 365 to get the latest content any day.

Visio’s new, innovative templates can help you plan for social distancing in the workplace. The included shapes will enable your company to create designs that comply with current requirements of the law in your country.

The new Visio wireframes can help you bring your mobile app ideas to life. These new mobile app templates are perfect for presenting ideas in a low-fidelity design sketch, reaching a team consensus, and laying the groundwork for a high-fidelity wireframe.

Visio 2021 Professional has an exclusive feature to help you recreate crime scenes in great detail. The new Evidence, Indoor, and Outdoor stencils can be found under Maps & Floorplans when using the Crime Scene Investigation template. This includes over 25 individual elements perfect for documenting investigations!

In Visio 2021 Professional, Microsoft has added a new input field for color values in the Colors dialog. No more need to convert between RGB and HEX formats! For any property where you can define colors on your slides or objects, you now have an option of entering them as their respective HEX codes such as #0F4C81 (Red), or 444 (Dark Gray).

System requirements:

• Processor: 1.6 GHz or faster, 2-core processor.
• Memory / RAM: 4 GB or more for 64-bit; 2 GB or more for 32-bit based systems.
• Hard disk: A minimum of 4GB available hard disk space is required on the installation harddrive.
• Operating System: Windows 10 or Windows 11 is required for Office 2021 apps.
• Graphics: Graphics hardware acceleration requires DirectX 9 or later, with WDDM 2.0 or higher on Windows 10.
• .NET version: Some features may require .NET 3.5 or 4.6 and higher to also be installed.
• Doesn’t link to Microsoft account.

Min Hard Drive Space: 32 GB
Min Processor Speed: 1.4 GHz
Min RAM Size: 2GB
Peripheral Interface Devices: DVD-ROM, Internet connection, Keyboard, Mouse or compatible device, SVGA monitor

NOTE: If you use an evaluation version of Windows Server, then to activate you need to convert your evaluation version to the full version using DISM, since the evaluation version without conversion cannot be activated