Senior Network Consultant / Engineer

Jeremy Weisinger

Security Administrator

Thomas Anthony

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Dynamic RAM is selected by default. Needs to be deselect if you feel it doesn't do what it should.
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Dynamic RAM is selected by default. Needs to be deselect if you feel it doesn't do what it should.

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OK. I &nbsp;guess that was pretty obvious. Thank you so much for your help and speediness!!
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OK. I  guess that was pretty obvious. Thank you so much for your help and speediness!!

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I have an HP workstation running Windows 10 Pro with 32gig of ram. It has dual Xeon processors. It is running Hyper-V so I can run a server to do some testing. I spun up a 2016 Standard server and allotted 18gig of ram and 4 cores. My problem is it is only seeing 1.47 gig of the ram. &nbsp;It says 17.6 installed and 1.47 usable.<br />
It showed this when I first installed it but after I activated the license key, it showed the full RAM. I have since ran Windows Updates and now it is showing the reduced RAM again. Any ideas on what I should do?
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I have an HP workstation running Windows 10 Pro with 32gig of ram. It has dual Xeon processors. It is running Hyper-V so I can run a server to do some testing. I spun up a 2016 Standard server and allotted 18gig of ram and 4 cores. My problem is it is only seeing 1.47 gig of the ram.  It says 17.6 installed and 1.47 usable.
It showed this when I first installed it but after I activated the license key, it showed the full RAM. I have since ran Windows Updates and now it is showing the reduced RAM again. Any ideas on what I should do?

Hyper-V VM not showing full amount of installed RAM

This topic area includes legacy versions of Windows prior to Windows 2000: Windows 3/3.1, Windows 95 and Windows 98, plus any other Windows-related versions including Windows Mobile.

Windows OS

Windows 10 is a personal computer operating system featuring the "universal application architecture" (UAP); apps can be designed to run across multiple devices with nearly identical code, including PCs, tablets, smartphones, embedded systems, Xbox One, Surface Hub and HoloLens. Windows 10 also includes a virtual desktop system, a window and desktop management feature called Task View, the Microsoft Edge web browser, support for fingerprint and face recognition login, voice-based search (Cortana), new security features for enterprise environments, and DirectX 12 and WDDM 2.0 to improve the operating system's graphics capabilities for games.

Windows 10

Hyper-V is a native hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems and supersedes Windows Virtual PC as the hardware virtualization component of the client editions of Windows NT. A server computer running Hyper-V can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks. Hyper-V Server supports remote access via Remote Desktop Connection. Administration and configuration of the host OS and the guest virtual machines is generally done over the network.

Hyper-V

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying and managing applications and services through datacenters. It provides both platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) services and supports many different programming languages, tools and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems. Cloud Services is a PaaS environment and can be used to create scalable applications and services; there are specific software development kits (SDKs) provided by Microsoft for Python, Java, Node.js and .NET. Azure also has file and storage services, data management, analytics and DNS services.

Azure

Windows Server 2016 is the successor to Windows Server 2012 R2. Built upon the same core code as Windows 10, Windows Server 2016 brings enhancements in security, servicing, and connectivity. A particular focus on this release was hybrid-cloud scenarios, and has close ties to Azure and other Microsoft cloud initiatives. This does not detract from the many improvements that are available for on-premises-only deployments

Windows Server 2016 comes in Datacenter, Standard, and Essentials editions, and for servicing, has adopted windows 10's cumulative model. The new nano-server install is designed to be remotely managed and is designed to be kept current through continuous feature updates. The full GUI install operates similarly to windows 10's "Long Term Servicing Branch" (LTSB) model with cumulative security updates.

Windows Server 2016 has also shifted from a per-processor-and-CAL licensing model to a per-core-and CAL licensing model. This brings Windows Server's licensing more in line with Microsoft's other products and makes hybrid-cloud license planning easier as well.