Microsoft Windows Server 2025

Dell OpenManage Integration with Microsoft Windows Admin Center is an extension for Microsoft Windows Admin Center. The Dell OpenManage Integration for Microsoft Admin Center extension enables IT administrators to manage Dell PowerEdge servers as hosts, Microsoft Failover Clusters created with PowerEdge servers, and Azure Stack Hyper-Converged Infrastructure created with Dell Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct Ready Nodes, AX Nodes. Support information includes a summary description, features, benefits, licensing, downloads, and other resources.

How to guide to enable nested virtualization on Dell Technologies PowerEdge platforms with AMD EPYC processors running the Windows Server 2022 operating system.

Operating System (OS) installation through the Lifecycle Controller (LC) (using F10 → OS Deployment) fails when using older Windows Server 2025 ISO images over iDRAC Virtual Media.

This article explains the procedure to open a Service Request (SR) using the Dell support page. Get help fast for your Dell device. No more waiting on hold. No more tech headaches. Dell makes it simple to fix problems, schedule repairs, or get support—right from your device or our support website.

Explore this article to troubleshoot wireless networking for your home network on Windows 11. Also, for help with setting up, connecting, sharing files, photos, music, and troubleshooting your wireless network see the appropriate section.

This article explains how to activate virtual machines (VMs) hosted in Hyper-V on a Datacenter edition of Windows Server using Automatic Virtual Machine Activation (AVMA).

This article addresses an issue in which conversion of Windows Server from an evaluation to a fully licensed edition fails. The error that is returned appears to indicate a problem with the supplied product key, but the key is known to be valid.

This article provides the guideline on how to update the firmware or drivers from Server Update Utility for Windows.

An Active Directory domain controller (DC) may fail to boot into Windows and display stopcode 0xC00002E2. This can occur for several reasons, two of which are addressed in this article.

This article provides information about how to use the LCC to deploy a supported OS.

This article explains how to convert an evaluation edition of Windows Server to a fully-licensed edition. The conversion must be performed before the operating system (OS) can be activated using its product key. Attempting to activate an evaluation edition is a common cause of activation error 0xC004F050.

This article provides information about how to test available network bandwidth using iperf3.

This article shows how to add an update to an offline Windows Server image file.

If an Active Directory domain controller (DC) is unable to replicate SYSVOL data from a partner for a long time, SYSVOL replication stops. Error 4012 is logged in the Distributed File System Replication (DFSR) event log of the affected DC when this occurs.

Microsoft Secure Boot 2011 certificates begin expiring in June 2026. Dell is working to ensure supported PowerEdge platforms are updated with the new 2023 Secure Boot certificates.

The SYMMQRY for z/VM utility provides the Symmetrix serial number from any z/VM disk, minidisk, or volume. The SYMMDEV#, Count Key Data (CKD) device information, and Enginuity level is also obtained from the SYMMQRY.

If the SYSVOL share is absent from every domain controller (DC) in an Active Directory (AD) domain, AD management consoles may give an error like this: "An Active Directory domain controller (AD DC) for the domain <domain> could not be contacted." If Distributed File System Replication (DFSR) is used to replicate SYSVOL data, the issue appears difficult to resolve. An authoritative sync of DFSR cannot be performed without the ADSI Edit console. Fortunately, the issue can be resolved by modifying the registry on the DC with the authoritative copy of SYSVOL. A different registry modification is then performed on the other DCs.

Dell Update packages (DUPS) and Inventory collector DUPS in Server update utility fail to run in the Microsoft Windows Operating System (OS).

This article provides information about problems seen deleting a Windows partition when a virtual memory page file is set on that partition.

Installation media for the Essentials edition of Windows Server appears to install the Standard edition instead. This article describes why this occurs and discusses the differences between these editions.

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Adjusting the Msdsm PathVerificationPeriod, does not make the path fail faster. This is expected behaviour, because the underlying HBA still signals a healthy path. Instead you need to change the respective HBA parameters to signal a path failure earlier.

This article describes how to enable custom JRE Packages in OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA).

Systems Management training video that covers how to configure OpenManage Enterprise Active Directory integration.

The firmware of PowerEdge server hard drives is a critical component in the server system. Regularly updating and maintaining this firmware is essential for server performance, security, and compatibility. Hard drive firmware updates can often fix known hardware faults and issues, address identified vulnerabilities and security problems, and potentially introduce new features, improvements, and enhancements.

This article provides information about "Windows 10 upgrade fails to activate due to an interruption of network connectivity during the update."

This article is designed to address installing the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) role using Windows PowerShell. This guide details adding the WSUS role with PowerShell, covering installation and management cmdlets like Get-WsusUpdate for update control and synchronization settings.

This article addresses unsupported Cisco SPF+ modules when used with Broadcom network interface cards.

This article provides information about how to resolve a failed cluster disk in Failover Cluster Manager when the Cluster Shared Volume disk is marked as Read-Only.

Information on how to recover a Microsoft SQL Server MSDB database.