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Ernie is joined by fellow MVP Ben Thomas to talk about the news of Azure Local subsuming Azure Stack HCI, Windows Server 2025 now GA with a ton of awesome features, and new management capabilities by Arc-enabling your infrastructure. 

**Time Stamps:** 

0:00 – Intro 

1:30 – Ben’s experience with SCVMM, WSSD, S2D, Azure Stack Hub, and Azure Stack HCI 

2:35 – Reactions to name change and what it means 

6:00 – Azure Local disconnected operations versus Azure Stack Hub and Edge 

11:15 – Windows Server 2025 is GA 

13:00 – In-place upgrade path is (n-4) now!!! 

14:00 – Managed service accounts, SMB over QUIC, GPU, network controller improvements, storage improvements, and more! 

16:35 – System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2025 

17:45 – Windows Server Pay-as-you-Go (PayG) licensing via Azure Arc 

22:40 – Caveats with Azure Local and workarounds 

26:55 – Last thoughts 

**Learn more: **https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurearcblog/announcing-general-availability-windows-server-management-enabled-by-azure-arc/4303854 

**Read the Microsoft blog: **https://aka.ms/Ignite24/blog/azurelocalintroblog

    
            

    

        

												
				
	
		
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