The Windows Server Insiders Team has released a new build for those running the new Windows Server Insider Preview. The Windows Subsystem for Linux has been released on the Server build, which is a great addition. Check out the blog post for more.

What’s New in Build 16257 for Windows Server

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is available on Windows Server

• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is now available on Windows Server along with a compliment of Linux distributions.

• Test WSL on Windows Server.  WSL runs unmodified Linux (ELF64) binaries natively.  With the additions of WSL you can run node.js, Ruby, Python, Perl, Bash scripts or other tools that expect Linux behaviors, environment, or filesystem-layout, the ability to install and run Linux with WSL expands the tools at your disposal on Windows Server.

• At this time, WSL does not support persistent Linux services (such as daemons and jobs) as background tasks. To enable WSL and install a Linux distribution, see Enable the Windows Subsystem for Linux and Install a Linux distribution in the Windows Server 2016 Installation Guide on GitHub.

• Read more in this blog or follow the installation guide to try it out.

A new build, 16251, has been released to the fast ring. Quite a few nice additions in this build, but the Settings page is going to start getting crowded!

As always, make sure and read the known issues before upgrading. You might find a show stopper in your case. Many times, it’s an issue that is just annoying or doesn’t affect you at all.

Known issues for PC

• If you installed Builds 16226-16237 and upgrade to this build, Storage Spaces will not work correctly. While Build 16241 contained a fix for the general reported issue with Storage Spaces in that build range, we discovered that the fix only applies for computers not already in the bad state, and need to do some extra work to return those already impacted to the good state. Special thanks to the Insiders that have helped us investigate this!

• Trying to use the dictation hotkey (WIN + H) in UWP apps won’t work – you’ll see the UI come up and immediately dismiss. If you’d still like to use dictation, the microphone in the touch keyboard will work. You can right-click the Taskbar for an option to show the touch keyboard button if it’s not already visible.

• We’re investigating your reports that after upgrading to the latest Insider Preview builds, some network settings are lost and revert to default settings. Static IP address configuration is reverted to DHCP. Networks which were marked as private are reverted to public. After the upgrade you will need to manually readjust your network settings back to your preferred settings.

• Start, Action Center and notification toasts may at times have a background that is 100% transparent. A fix will be available in later flight – for now, if you encounter this issue, try ending ShellExperienceHost.exe via Task Manager or rebooting to resolve the issue.

• Connecting to a VPN using a solution downloaded from the Windows Store may result in a system crash.

• The battery flyout might show unexpected text for the % charged (specifically “%1!s!%2!s!% until fully charged”).

The Windows Insider team has released the first Windows Server Insider build – build 16237. This is great for those IT professionals wanting to be on the bleeding edge and learn the new capabilities of the Windows Server OS. In a non-production environment, of course (although, what’s that saying? All environments are dev if you’re brave enough. 🙂 ).

As always, make sure to read the release notes to see if there are any issues that might affect you directly.

Today we are very excited to be releasing the first Windows Server Insider Preview to Windows Insiders: Build 16237. To access to the latest Windows Server preview release, register at the Windows Insiders for Business program or the Windows Insider Program.

Windows Server Datacenter Core and Standard Core editions are headless operating systems and are best managed remotely. For more information, please refer to Configure a Server Core installation of Windows Server with Sconfig.cmd. Updated remote administration information will be provided with future Insider releases.

The Insider team has released new builds for PC (16241) and for Mobile (15230) today. And, the upcoming and final Bug Bash for the Fall Creators Update. With the Bug Bash also comes a couple Mixer (formally Beam) webcasts. If you see MSTechpages there, be sure to say hi!

We’re really excited to do our 2nd (and final) Bug Bash for the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update! The Bug Bash will start at 12am (Pacific Time) on Friday July 14th and will run a full week ending at 11:59 pm (Pacific Time) on Sunday July 23rd. This build will be our Bug Bash build. As usual, we will be publishing new quests so be sure to open Feedback Hub and complete as many quests as you can!

And we’ll also be doing Mixer webcasts at the following dates and times for the Bug Bash:

• Tuesday July 18th: 1:30pm – 3:00pm (Pacific Time)

• Friday July 21st: 10:00am – 11:30am (Pacific Time)

Good news for those in the Fast Ring for the Windows Insider program on the desktop. A new build, 16237, has been released. Also, starting July 14th, a new Bug Bash begins! These are fun, a lot of quests to learn more about the new updates and features in the OS, as well as provide feedback and bug reports on those features. It’s always fun! A lot of new improvements this build, too.

Upcoming Bug Bash

We’re really excited to do our 2nd (and final) Bug Bash for the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update! The Bug Bash will start at 12am (Pacific Time) on Friday July 14th and will run a full week ending at 11:59 pm (Pacific Time) on Sunday July 23rd. As usual, we will be publishing new quests and will be doing some Mixer webcasts. So be sure to open Feedback Hub and complete as many quests as you can! More details to come early next week!

I’m getting slow! It’s been a couple hours since these were released. Build 16232 for the PC and 15228 for Mobile have been pushed out to Fast ring insiders. Some new Windows Defender features that sound nice.

Make sure to read the Known Issues before updating. Some might be a deal breaker for you, or you might have a problem and want to report it but it’s already known.

Known issues for PC

• Your PC may fail to update to this build with an 0x80070643 and rolls back to the previous build. We are investigating.

• We’re continuing to investigate reports that the battery status on certain laptops isn’t updating while the device is unplugged. If you think you are seeing this, please send in feedback via Feedback Hub and use the capture feature when logging your feedback so we can get your logs.

• You may notice some of your inbox apps are now displaying a name that looks like “ms-resource:” and are listed at the bottom of Start. We’re investigating. In the meantime, the app should still launch normally, it’s only the name resource that’s impacted.

• Some UWP apps such as Twitter will crash on launch.

• Xbox Live in-game experiences may fail to load. These include gamer profiles, achievement details, and other dialogs that may pop up on top of an Xbox Live-enabled game.

• Please avoid doing a PC reset via Settings > Update & security > Recovery and choosing “Remove everything”. This may put your device into a reboot loop.

• Task Manager may hang on launch on this build.

Another big update for the fast ring insiders! Build 16226 is here for desktop builds! A lot of new Edge features along with some core Windows features. A big addition many gamers have been asking for:

Track your GPU performance: For the Task Manager fans out there, we’re happy to share that we’ve heard your feedback and we’ve updated Task Manager to now include GPU info. Our engineering team used the feedback you gave us that is part of this Feedback Collection https://aka.ms/olx5pn to prioritize and to design the feature – thank you! The Performance tab shows GPU utilization information for each separate GPU component (such as 3D and Video encode/decode), as well as graphics memory usage stats. The Details tab shows you GPU utilization info for each process. Please note that this feature is still under construction and you will find issues and bugs, as always please send us feedback in Feedback Hub under Desktop Environment > Task manager.

Well, Panos wasn’t wrong – the Surface Pro 5 does not exist. The new Surface Pro (with no identifying sequence number) has been announced. As expected, it’s a small upgrade from the Surface Pro 4. Higher battery life, quieter fans (the i5 doesn’t even need a fan), lighter, the new pen…

With a powerful 7th generation Intel Core processor it can handle almost anything you throw at it, but even with all that power, you can be as inconspicuous as you want with Surface Pro, it’s the quietest Surface yet, with no fan on the Core™ m3 and the i5 devices. In fact, this is the first i5 ever with fan-less architecture. And at an unprecedented 18dB, even the core i7 can’t be heard. So, if you’re working at home, you don’t have to worry about your family getting disturbed by the noise of a fan while they’re trying to watch a movie.