[hemmerling] Windows 10, Windows Server 2016 & Nano Server

Lizenzgo "Windows 10 Pro".
ISO Image downloads.
- Microsoft "Windows 10 herunterladen".
- CHIP "Windows 10 Pro ISO 64 Bit" - “Hier erhalten Sie die Windows 10 ISO, in der 64-Bit Pro-Version, zum kostenlosen Download. Mit dabei: Das aktuellste Windows 10 Mai Update 2019”.

The OpenSource “VLC Media Player” may play DVDs ⇒ See Audiovision 4/5 - Video Tools.
The commercial “Windows DVD Player”.
- Microsoft Help "Windows DVD Player" - “The Windows DVD Player app enables Windows 10PCs with an optical disc drive to play DVD movies (but not Blu-ray discs). You can buy it in the Microsoft Store”.
- Windows Store "Windows DVD Player", $14.99.

International Business Times "5 Missing Features In Windows 10: Don't Expect To Play DVDs Or Run Floppy Disks" - “Believe it or not, Windows 10 does not support playing back DVD videos out-of-the-box. The exception to this, for some incomprehensible reason, is if you are upgrading from a version of Windows with Windows Media Center installed. Everyone else will need to download Windows DVD Player from the Windows Store”.

As of 2016-12, with Win10-Pro, 64-bit, the legacy hardware “Floppy Disk drives” is not fully supported:
- You may read and write Floppy disks from 1.44 MB Floppy Disk drives.
- You may not format Floppy disks by the Windows Desktop tools .
- You may format Floppy disks by commandline:
```
FORMAT A:
```
Google - Search for "win 10 floppy formatting".
Tech@Play "How to format floppy disk to 720K in Windows" - “Microsoft has officially removed support for formatting floppies to 720K since Windows XP. However, if you do find yourself in a situation where you need a floppy to be formatted to 720K, you can still do it through command line. Open command line (Start → Run → cmd), insert a floppy, and enter the following in command line:
```
FORMAT A: /T:80 /N:9
```
Tech Support Forum "Floppy drive not working in Win 10" - “You can copy the files fdc.sys and flpydisk.sys from C:\Windows\System32\Drivers in Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 and copy them to the same place in Windows 10 to get the drive to work”.
The Windows Club "How to use Floppy Disk on Windows 10".

Deskmodder - News, Tipps, Hilfe "Kennwort, die Dauer ändern in Windows 10" - “Win + R”, “secpol.msc” = “Lokale Sicherheitsrichtline → Als Administrator ausführen ... Sicherheitseinstellungen → Kontenrichtlininen → Maximales Kennwortalter” ( default: 42, forever: 0 ).

Microsoft "Windows 10 free upgrade offer ends July 29" - Win10 updater “Windows10Upgrade9194.exe” ( 5 MBytes ) for Win7, Win8.x.

Resources

Windows Insider about Win10, for Win10 users.
Appuals.com - Tech How-to's from the Expert! "SOLVED: Microsoft Edge Can’t be opened using the built-in Administrator Account".
- Run “secpol.msc” as Administrator.
- Select “Security Settings / Local Policies / Security Options”.
- Enable “User Account Control: Admin Approval Mode for the Built-in Administrator” / “Benutzerkontensteuerung: Administratorengenehmigungsmodus für das integrierte Administratorkonto”.
- Restart the computer.
Superuser "Windows cannot access \\[other computer] error code 0x80004005" - “Select Add or remove Windows features in the sidebar. Make sure Support for SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing is checked”.

Matt Wrock " A Packer template for Windows Nano server weighing 300MB", 2015-09-28 - “If you are on Windows and want to create Virtualbox VMs, the instructions for creating the nano image are nearly identical. The key change is to specify -OEMDrivers instead of -GuestDrivers in the New-NanoServerImage command”.

Redmond MAGAZINE "First Look: Windows Nano Server", 2015-09-02.
Windows Server Blog. Your Guide to the Latest Windows Server Product Information "Microsoft Announces Nano Server for Modern Apps and Cloud", 2015-04-08.
EN.Wikipedia "Windows Server 2016" - “Microsoft announced a new installation option, Nano Server, a minimal footprint installation option of Windows Server. It excludes the graphical user interface, WoW64 (support for 32-bit software) and Windows Installer. It does not support console logon, neither locally nor via Remote Desktop Connection. All management is performed remotely via Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and PowerShell. Microsoft engineer Jeffrey Snover claims that Nano Server had 93 percent lower VHD size, 92 percent fewer critical security advisories, and 80 percent fewer reboots than Windows Server”.

The commercial software Drawboard - “Collaborative PDF software”.
- The commercial Win10 App Drawboard PDF: Easy Document Managagement.
  - “Drawboard PDF - markup for individuals”.
  - “Do you need to mark up and annotate your local PDF documents? Replace pen and paper with an app that feels like pen and paper! Drawboard PDF is the top PDF app for your local files on the Microsoft Store, and was even preinstalled on earlier models of Surface”.