Windows Server 2025 changes

Source history: extracted from the page's source file at a commit; shared includes are not expanded

Settings and overrides named on this page

Registry values, policies and cmdlets the source mentions, with the dated steps that name them. Read the source for the values to set.

• CurrentPasswordVersionOverride
• DsGetDcName
• SamrUnicodeChangePasswordUser4
• Update-LapsADSchemaOverride

Requirements, exceptions and scope

• Email and accountsRequirement1 passage
• Active Directory Domain ServicesRequirementExceptionScope6 conditions8 passages
  DsGetDcNameSamrUnicodeChangePasswordUser4
• Windows Local Administrator Password SolutionRequirementScope6 conditions3 passages
  CurrentPasswordVersionUpdate-LapsADSchema
• OpenSSHRequirement1 passage
• Security baselineRecommendation1 passage
• Virtualization-based security key protectionRequirement1 passage
• SMB over QUICException1 condition1 passage
• SMB alternative portsException1 condition1 passage
• SMB firewall rule hardeningRequirement1 condition1 passage
• SMB authentication rate limiterException1 passage
• SMB dialect controlException1 condition1 passage
• SMB signingRequirementException1 condition1 passage
• Remote MailslotRequirement1 passage
• Routing and Remote Access Services hardeningScope1 condition1 passage
• Thin provisioned volumesException1 condition1 passage
• Server Message BlockScope1 passage
• Pay-as-you-go licensingException1 condition1 passage

Extracted automatically from Microsoft's wording. Confirm dates, conditions and whether they apply to you in the source before acting; a month or quarter is a window, not a day.

How this timeline changed

Changes between ChangeIntel's readings of the page, between commits of its source file where Microsoft publishes it, in Internet Archive copies of pages that keep no other history, and entries from Microsoft's own change log (dated as Microsoft dates them). Edits between readings that neither records are unknown.

1. 3 Mar 2025
   No longer on the page Upgrade by using Windows UpdateMicrosoft's source, commit fff3fe7
2. 3 Mar 2025
   No longer on the page Active Directory Domain ServicesMicrosoft's source, commit fff3fe7
3. 3 Mar 2025
   Requirement added Active Directory Domain ServicesMicrosoft's source, commit e2ef13f
4. 1 Mar 2025
   No longer on the page Active Directory Domain ServicesMicrosoft's source, commit 80cec63