“As a result, the portion of the industry focused on Windows Server host hardware has fully expected Windows Server 2022 to require those capabilities, since Microsoft requires them for hardware certification,” he told me via email. Servers that shipped with what was then being called “the next major Windows Server release” (which is now knows as Windows Server 2022) preinstalled would have to have Secure Boot enabled by default. I think we were all a little distracted back then. Jim Gaynor, lead analyst with Directions on Microsoft, says the TPM module is a “non-issue” because on June 11, 2020, Microsoft announced that Windows Server hardware certification would require UEFI and TPM 2.0 hardware for new server platforms introduced to market after January 1, 2021. And as it turns out, Microsoft handled the server software a lot better than it did the client. But not in this case.Ĭomputerworld has been covering this story from the client side, so we will focus on the server side.

So what happens to one usually happens to the other. The main difference between client and server is the services wrapped around the core operating system. That’s why Patch Tuesday fixes almost always apply to the Windows 10 client (Windows 7 is no longer supported) along with Server 20. It’s an issue because Windows client and Windows Server share a whole lot of code. Those that do ship with it have it turned off by default but it is easily activated.

Microsoft is mandating that systems have TPM based on 2.0 specifications but few PCs do. It can also encrypt the drive contents to protect against theft. It ensures that boot code that’s loaded, such as firmware and OS components, haven’t been tampered with. TPM is a specially designed chip that assists with security surrounding credentials. Normally the issues around a new version of Windows are system requirements, but here, the issue is the TPM chip. By now you’ve heard about the kerfuffle surrounding Windows 11 and its requirement for a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip, which is not standard on the majority of PCs and threatens to leave many newer Windows 10 PCs blocked from being upgraded.

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