Microsoft

Windows Server

Infrastructure & data platform

The Windows Server operating system — on-premises, on Azure VMs or hybrid. We advise, licence and deploy.

Licensing
Per physical core (16-core minimum per server), plus CALs; contact us for a quote
Editions
Standard and Datacenter (2025 also offers Datacenter — Azure Edition)
Support
Managed by Madatech

Overview

Windows Server still runs the core of many organisations — Active Directory, file services, line-of-business apps and databases. We help pick the right version and edition, licence it correctly (per-core plus CALs is easy to get wrong), and deploy it on-premises, on Azure VMs, or in a hybrid model managed through Azure Arc.

Currently supported versions

Version Mainstream / extended support
Windows Server 2025 Latest release; supported to 2034
Windows Server 2022 Supported to 2031
Windows Server 2019 In extended support to 2029
Windows Server 2016 In extended support to January 2027 — plan an upgrade

For anything older, Extended Security Updates (on-prem or free on Azure) buy time while you migrate.

Key features

Supported versions we deploy — Windows Server 2016, 2019, 2022 and 2025Standard for lightly virtualised workloads; Datacenter for dense virtualisation and Storage Spaces DirectAzure Arc for hybrid management and Azure Update ManagerActive Directory, DNS, DHCP, file and print, IIS and Hyper-VExtended Security Updates available for end-of-support versions

How we deploy it

1

Assess

Inventory current servers and roles, target version and edition, and licence position.

2

Build

Stand up the new servers (on-prem or Azure), migrate roles and data, test failover.

3

Operate

Patch rings via Azure Update Manager, backup, and monitoring; hand over runbooks.

Get pricing for Windows Server

We'll prepare a quote in your local currency — no commitment.

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