Windows Server 2025 Standard

This geneset contains the base catlet for Windows Server 2025 Standard.

Usage

The base catlet can be used as parent catlet like this

New-Catlet -Parent "dbosoft/winsrv2025-standard"

This base catlet does not include a default user.
You should therefore set up your own fodder to create an initial local user or to automatically join a domain.

Alternatively, you can use the Starter Catlet, which creates a default admin user with an initial password of "InitialPassw0rd".

New-Catlet -Parent "dbosoft/winsrv2025-standard/starter"

See also starter-food for other defaults and variables for starter food.

Windows license

All base catlets from dbosoft contain no valid windows license and are build using a evaluation image.
This means that the license will expire after some time since the initial build and will need to be rearmed (see also here).

If the catlet can access the Internet at startup, the automatic activation will be activated for 90-180 days (depending on the Windows version).

 
Legal note: By activating the Windows license, you also accept the Windows evaluation license.
 

You should not use the windows base catlets in production.  

Instead, it is recommended that you create your own base catlet that contains or activates your own license.
 
You can use the eryph-org/basecatlets-hyperv project as a starting point for your own base catlets and customizations.

General Information

Server Catlets Naming Convention

The naming convention for the server catlets is as follows:

winsrv<version>-<edition>

where

• <version> is the Windows version, e.g. 2022 or 2025
• <edition> is the Windows edition, e.g. standard, datacenter, standardcore, datacentercore

We currently only build the standard and standardcore editions regularly. Some genesets also have a datacenter edition.

Monthly Builds

We plan to build the server catlets monthly. The build date is part of the tag name. The tag latest is updated with each released version.

Currently the builds have to be triggered manually. We are working on automating this process.

Versioning

This geneset contains 2 kinds of tags:

• Base catlets
  Base catlets are versioned by a timestamp which is the build date of the catlet.
  The tag latest is updated with each released version.

• Starter catlets
  Starter catlets are versioned with a major-minor version scheme.

  The started catlets are very light and contain only reference to the base catlet and the starter food.

Contributing

This geneset is maintained by dbosoft and is open for contributions.

You can find the repository for this geneset on github.com/dbosoft/eryph-genes.

License

All public dbosoft genesets are licensed under the MIT License.