Microsoft Windows Server 2025 Standard (16-Core)

Windows Server 2025 Standard is Microsoft's enterprise server platform designed for physical single-core and multi-core infrastructures. Launched in 2024, it represents the balance between advanced management capabilities and contained licence costs, ideal for small-to-medium businesses and IT departments seeking consolidated server functionality without the complexity of the Datacenter version. With perpetual licence and hybrid cloud management rights included, Windows Server 2025 Standard maintains the server role experience that IT administrators know, adding Azure Arc integration, Windows Admin Center and Hyper-V for basic virtualisation. What is included in Windows Server 2025 Standard? Upon purchase you will receive an authentic licence via email, activatable directly on the official Microsoft portal, with detailed guidance. No separate business account registration is required. Windows Server 2025 offers security updates and features for 10 years, until 2031. Critical patches are included at no extra cost and access to the official Microsoft knowledge base is provided. Core components Windows Server 2025 Standard server operating system for 2 Hyper-V virtual machine instances (virtualisation right limited compared to Datacenter) Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) and Windows Sandbox for application isolation Server Manager and Windows Admin Centre for remote and local management Server roles, Hyper-V, File Services, DNS, DHCP, Active Directory Domain Services, Certificate Authority - identity management becomes more secure and scalable, simplifying AD object recovery and improving credential protection Native support for Windows containers (Docker compatibility) Hybrid cloud rights Azure Hybrid Benefit hybrid licence: use the same licence for on-premises and Azure instances simultaneously (right to 2 VMs) Access to Azure Arc for centralised monitoring Azure Update Management for automatic patches SQL Server Standard rights included for 2 cores