# Does Plex support Microsoft windows server 2016 **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Tags:** server-windows\ **Created:** [May 4, 2019, 3:37am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-support-microsoft-windows-server-2016/407704 "2019-05-04T03:37:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bairmedia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@bairmedia](https://forums.plex.tv/u/bairmedia)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2019, 3:37am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-support-microsoft-windows-server-2016/407704/1 "2019-05-04T03:37:20Z")
Just looking at building a server with more capabilities. The server boards support windows server however is the 2012 version the latest that plex supports? ---
**Author:** ![raghu01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc8723/32.png) [@raghu01](https://forums.plex.tv/u/raghu01)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2019, 5:57am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-support-microsoft-windows-server-2016/407704/2 "2019-05-04T05:57:52Z")
I used to run plex server on Server 2016 with no issues. I don’t know if plex can utilize Hardware decoding that Intel offers (Quick Sync), you will have to do some research on that. ---
**Author:** ![CapMarkoRamius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5e9695/32.png) [@CapMarkoRamius](https://forums.plex.tv/u/CapMarkoRamius)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2019, 1:54pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-support-microsoft-windows-server-2016/407704/3 "2019-05-05T13:54:05Z")
Works fine for me. Including NVIDIA hardware decoding. ---
**Author:** ![bairmedia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@bairmedia](https://forums.plex.tv/u/bairmedia)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2019, 4:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-support-microsoft-windows-server-2016/407704/4 "2019-05-05T16:33:36Z")
Thanks guys for the confirmation. I’m hoping to use a hp proliant g6 server with two xeon processors. I’ve found transcoding with these processors when I use ddr memory as a virtual disk to store the trascode. ---
**Author:** ![tweexter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tweexter/32/141409_2.png) [@tweexter](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tweexter)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 7:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-support-microsoft-windows-server-2016/407704/5 "2019-05-17T19:00:11Z")
> [@CapMarkoRamius](#): > > Works fine for me. Including NVIDIA hardware decoding. So your GPU is doing decode AND encode? I thought GPU decode wasn’t added to PMS yet. 🤔 I’m also using a Xeon E5 with Server 2016 and a Quadro P2000, but it barely gets used due to (I assume) only being used for encoding. ---
**Author:** ![Duvrazh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/duvrazh/32/133379_2.png) [@Duvrazh](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Duvrazh)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 2:29am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-support-microsoft-windows-server-2016/407704/6 "2019-05-18T02:29:14Z")
I don’t have a solution to add, but I would like to throw in there I run Plex on a PowerEdge with dual hexcore sockets, no GPU, and hardware transcoding on “make my cpu hurt” works fantastic and doesn’t even ping out a single core. This is all running inside of an ESXi 6.7 host. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 2:29am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-support-microsoft-windows-server-2016/407704/7 "2019-08-16T02:29:23Z")
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