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Managing older operating systems in Windows Admin Center

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Managing older operating systems in Windows Admin Center

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- [Instructor] I'm going to add an older operating system, in this case it's a Windows 2012 R2 and we'll take a look at the differences between the two. So I click on Add, Windows Server, and I'll type in the name of the server. I'll click on the server and log in. At first glance it looks very similar to when we managed one of our 2019 Servers, however, if we do a comparison, we can see a lot of differences. I'm going to set the servers up side by side to make it a little bit easier to see. On the left we see the 2019 Server and on the right we see the 2012 Server. If I scroll down, we can see the thing stop with Services on the 2012 server, but keep going on with Storage, Migration Service, Storage Replica, System Insights, and Updates. So there's definitely some things that you can't do on the 2012 Server that you can with the newer servers. And 2016 and 2019 are fully supported. 2012 to 2008 are supported, but you're…

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