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Microsoft released today the Windows Server Insider Preview Build 17046 to Windows Server Insiders, which is the second Redstone 4 build for Microsoft’s server OS.
Interestingly, Microsoft says that this latest build brings no new features, and the company didn’t list any general fixes and improvements either. However, there a list of known issues, which you can read below:
• [NEW] Dynamic disks fail I/O with STATUS_INVALID_DEVICE_REQUEST, resulting in failures to mount or format a volume. The contents of an affected volume will be available after updating to a build that fixes this issue, so reformatting and restoring data from backup is not necessary.
• Upgrading to recent pre-release builds of Windows Server is not currently an option. However, upgrading will be supported in the future.
• The Health Attestation CSP fails with error message 500 when attempting to get a certificate.
• Data corruption may occur on some NVM Express (NVMe) solid-state drives (SSD) if scatter-gather list (SGL) functionality is enabled.
• The base filtering engine (BFE) service may fail to start, which prevents the Windows Defender firewall (MpsSvc service) from starting.
• A system crash may occur because of a kernel security check failure (bug check 0x139) from a corrupt list entry in a deferred free pool.
• Hyper-V isolated containers will fail to start with an error of “The description string for parameter reference (%1) could not be found. (0x3ab6)”. Users can work around this by temporarily disabling our cloning optimization by creating a registry key and rebooting or restarting the vmcompute service.
• reg ADD “HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Virtualization\Containers” /v TemplateVmCount /t REG_DWORD /d 0
• Although installation will continue successfully, the product key will not activate.
Windows Server Insiders can download the Windows Server Insider build 17046 on this page (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windowsinsiderpreviewserver?ranMID=24542&ranEAID=TnL5HPStwNw&ranSiteID=TnL5HPStwNw-9WECgP5t87mOEcAuAqE8zw&tduid=(faa16514ec0e4dc4a60b8d5db24fcdb0)(256380)(2459594)(TnL5HPStwNw-9WECgP5t87mOEcAuAqE8zw)()), where they can choose between the ISO and VHDX formats. As usual, let us know in the comments how is your experience with this latest build.
source (http://www.onmsft.com/news/windows-server-insider-preview-updated-to-build-17046)