Going down the IT rabbit hole

Windows Server 2025 is bringing new features and at the same time also removing some of the ones, we used to implement in our environment.

Features removed in Windows Server 2025

• IIS 6 Management Console (Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console)
• NTLMv1
• Wordpad
• SMTP Server
• Windows PowerShell 2.0 Engine

Features that are no longer under active development:

• Computer Browser
• Failover Clustering Cluster Sets
• L2TP and PPTP in RRAS (disabled by default, can still be enabled if necessary)
• Network Load Balancing (NLB)
• NTLM (LANMAN and NTLMv2)
• Remote Mailslots
• TLS 1.0 & TLS 1.1
• WebDAV Redirector service
• Windows Internal Database (WID)
• Windows Management Instrumentation Command line (WMIC)
• VBScript
• Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) (more info)

If we are using driver synchronization in WSUS, Microsoft announced deprecation of this feature a while ago. Currently this deprecation is planned for April 18th 2025 – drivers will be available on the Microsoft Update catalog, but we will not be able to import them into WSUS. For now WSUS deprecation does not impact existing capabilities or support for Microsoft Configuration Manager.

More information about this changes is available here.