Windows Server Default 2022

1. Secured-Core Server: Enhances security and minimizes risks associated with advanced malicious software.
2. Server Message Block (SMB) Security Enhancements: Improves the security of Server Message Block protocols.
3. Secured Connectivity: Ensures faster and more secure encrypted HTTPS connections, along with standard AES-256 encryption.
4. SMB Compression: Compresses files during transmission, reducing network bandwidth consumption and transfer time.
5. Improved Application Collaboration: Provides a flexible platform for better application collaboration.
6. More Efficient Disk Space Management: Offers easier and more efficient disk space management.

Windows Server Standard 2022 also includes many other incredibly useful features:

1. Azure Hybrid Features
   • Backup and Restore: Create backups and restore them as needed.
   • Local Capacity Expansion: Synchronize file servers with the cloud, migrate storage to virtual machines, achieve quorum in a failover cluster, and connect on-premises servers to a virtual network using a network adapter.
   • Hyper-V Virtual Machine Protection.
   • File Server Synchronization with the Cloud.
   • Centralized OS Update Management.
   • Uniform Look for Azure VMs.
2. Data Storage and Processing.
3. Predictive Analysis on Large Data Sets: Helps reduce operational costs in the enterprise.
4. Desktop Virtualization: Enables fast and secure remote work from anywhere.
5. Data, Application, and Virtual Machine Security: Offers advanced multi-layered built-in protection.
6. New Secured-Core Server and Secured Connectivity Features: Ensuring comprehensive security and faster encrypted connections.
7. Modern Windows Admin Center: Facilitates efficient management of server environments through an updated Server Manager application and Microsoft Management Console within a browser-based interface.
8. Synchronous or Asynchronous Data Replication on Virtual Machines.
9. Rapid and Simplified Development of Native Cloud Applications: Combines Windows Server, Nano Server, and Azure Service Fabric for advanced application development.
10. Enhanced GPU Virtualization Technology.

Windows 2022 Standard also includes Host Protection, support for 2 OSE* container environments, Hyper-V functionality, and an unlimited number of Windows Server containers. Software licensing is dependent on the number of cores.