Microsoft Gold-Certified Consultants
Microsoft Exchange 2019 Server Expertise:
Planning, Configuration, Troubleshooting
Introduction to Exchange Server 2019
Exchange Server 2019 is a self-hosted release of Exchange that enables hybrid implementations with Microsoft 365 Exchange Online. A major enhancement is the ability to operate with Windows Server 2019 Core, which reduces the surface area vulnerable to a malware attack and eliminates unnecessary server roles that waste network resources. Refinements over Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 include enhanced data protection, greater performance and scale, and a variety of novel Exchange client features.
The Mailbox and Edge Transport services plus management tools for Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 need Microsoft Windows Server 2019. Exchange Server 2019 no longer includes the Unified Messaging (UM) role, and therefore does not offer voicemail or auto attendant support. If your business are upgrading from Exchange Server 2013 or Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 and have deployed UM services, Microsoft recommends that you subscribe to the Microsoft Cloud Voicemail Service available in Microsoft 365. Skype for Business 2019 and Teams use this voice messaging service for Microsoft Exchange 2019 mailboxes. Generally, moving to Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 can call for a serious update project.
Progent's Microsoft-certified experts can help your organization with any aspect of your upgrade to Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 from Exchange Server 2016, Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, or from legacy versions of Microsoft Exchange Server. Progent can provide online and onsite expertise for solution design; configuring hybrid deployment models; building pilot systems; incorporating fault-tolerant technology including hardware load balancing and database availability groups (DAGs); confirming licensing compliance; configuring host servers powered by Windows Server 2019; planning and deploying Hyper-V virtualization; modernizing your voicemail system; and estimating disk storage demands for VMs, databases and logs. Progent's Exchange Server consultants are on call to provide as-needed assistance to help you take care of an unexpected technical bottleneck or Progent can provide comprehensive project management services to make sure your Exchange Server 2019 upgrade is completed on time and on budget.
Exchange Server 2019 Design
Exchange Server 2019 is built on the efficient model used for Exchange Server 2016. This design consolidates transport services, mailboxes, and user access services in the Exchange Mailbox server. This significantly simplifies upgrades, configuration, scale, administration, and troubleshooting in comparison to older releases of Microsoft Exchange Server. The optional Edge Transport Server role includes filtering agents that allow your perimeter network to control Internet-facing email flow and protect against information leaks, spam and malware.
Exchange 2019 Mailbox and Edge Transport servers and management utilities need Standard or Datacenter editions of Windows Server 2019. To manage these servers from a Windows client requires a current 64-bit version of Windows 10. (Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 can be run on Windows Server 2012 R2 and managed using Windows 8.1 or later.) Progent can provide remote or on-premises Microsoft Windows Server 2019 configuration guidance, Windows 11 planning and migration assistance, and Windows 10 integration consulting to assist your business update your Exchange solution.
Security and Performance Enhancements in Exchange Server 2019
Exchange Server 2019 is optimized for being hosted on Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Core, which offers the safest deployment for hosting Exchange Server 2019. You can also implement Exchange Server 2019 on Microsoft Windows Server 2019 with Desktop Experience, although this alternative presents a larger attack service for malware exploits. Out of the box, Exchange Server 2019 uses TLS 1.2 transport protocol and removes legacy ciphers and hashing algorithms. Several standards bodies require the adoption of TLS 1.2. Another cybersecurity enhancement is the capability in Exchange Server 2019 to prevent outside users from accessing the Exchange admin center (EAC) and the management shell. This allows you to make sure that the management of Exchange Server 2019 can occur only from inside the security perimeter of your network.
For improved throughput and scale, Exchange Server 2019 can use as many as 48 processor cores (vs. 24 with Exchange Server 2016) and 256GB of RAM (as opposed to 192GB for Exchange 2016). Recommended minimum in-box memory has been upped to 128GB. The proven search technology used by Microsoft Exchange Online has been ported to Exchange Server 2019 for improved search performance and more rapid database failovers, support larger files for indexing, and streamline management. Exchange Server 2019 also works with bigger disk drives. To offset the longer latency associated with high-density spinning disks, the new MCDB feature of Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 enables you to set up solid state disk caching when you deploy DAGs. Based on features developed for Exchange Online, MetaCacheDatabase can dramatically improve the responsiveness of the end user environment. Throughput is also increased by improvements in Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 algorithms that make more RAM available for caching live database copies. These improvements in Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 make it possible to configure each server to handle more users, deploy larger drives, and improve the responsiveness of common end-user processes.
Enhancements for Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 Clients
Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 works with Microsoft Outlook 2013, 2016 and 2019. Improvements to the client experience include the Do-Not-Forward feature that allows only a conference's organizer to create invitations other guests. Out-of-Office (OOF) features have also been expanded. In addition, a Remove-CalendarEvents cmdlet enables admins to remove calendar events organized by an employee who no longer works for the company.
Cloud Voicemail for Exchange Server 2019
Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 does not provide the Unified Messaging (UM) services incorporated in prior releases of Exchange. Unified Messaging services include voicemail and auto attendant. Skype for Business 2019 depends on Microsoft Cloud Voicemail Service for voice messaging support for Exchange Server 2019 mailboxes. (Skype for Business 2019 still supports Exchange UM services for Exchange 2013 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2016.) Microsoft recommends that organizations moving to Microsoft Exchange 2019 adopt Skype for Business Server 2019 and integrate Cloud Voicemail Service. Exchange Server 2019 and Skype for Business 2019 can be deployed in a hybrid architecture with a mix of Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 and Exchange Online mailboxes so that both local Exchange 2019 clients and Microsoft Exchange Online cloud clients have full access to advanced voice messaging services.
This voice messaging solution provides voicemail answering and deposit; voice-to-text and text-to-voice transcription; voice mail access through either Microsoft Outlook or Skype for Business; voicemail administration through the Microsoft 365 portal; and hybrid support for Exchange mailboxes on premises or in the cloud. Administration is made easier because of a single collection of management utilities for both Exchange Server 2019 and Microsoft Exchange Online mailboxes. Progent's consultants can help your organization to adhere to best practices to configure a hybrid topology that permits all your Exchange clients to access the Cloud Voicemail service.
How Progent Can Assist You to Configure and Maintain Microsoft Exchange Server 2019
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 has reached end of life. Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 have become unsupported legacy products. Exchange 2019, Microsoft Windows 2019, Microsoft Skype for Business 2019, and SharePoint 2019 have all been revamped with Microsoft's proven cloud environment and tuned for hybrid network models. Given this situation, it is prudent to consider updating your email and collaboration solutions. Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified experts can assist your business to evaluate the strategic benefits and technical challenges related to upgrading to Exchange 2019 and related modern platforms; determine if an onsite, cloud, or hybrid network model makes sense for your organization; design and record a migration plan that makes efficient use of your current resources; and carry out an upgrade from your existing Microsoft Exchange deployment to a current email solution powered by Microsoft Exchange 2019.
Progent's Microsoft-certified experts can help organizations of any size to follow best practices for designing and carrying out an efficient migration to Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 from Exchange 2016, Exchange 2013, Exchange 2010, Exchange 2007, or Exchange 2003. Progent can provide a wide array of remote and onsite services including project design assessment; network topology documentation; setting up Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Core to host Microsoft Exchange Server 2019; implementing Skype for Business 2019 and Cloud Voicemail Service; developing the schema, domain, and forest for Microsoft Exchange Server 2019; defining and implementing DAGs and hardware load balancing for high availability and rapid restore; setting up DirSync; optimizing your firewalls, generating SSL certs and troubleshooting SSL issues; setting up IIS; writing PowerShell scripts; and verifying email flow.
Progent's certified Windows Server 2019 experts, Skype for Business experts, Microsoft SharePoint 2019 programming consultants and Microsoft 365 integration consultants can help you to build modern, cohesive collaboration environments powered by Exchange Server 2019. To support mobility with Exchange Server 2019, Progent can provide iPhone and iPad expertise and Google Android smartphone and tablet expertise. Progent's load balancing experts are skilled at designing and troubleshooting cost-effective technology from top providers like Barracuda, Cisco, Citrix NetScaler, Coyote Point/Fortinet, and NGINX.
Progent's disaster recovery and business continuity (DR/BC) preparedness experts can help you to create, deploy and test a disaster recovery and business continuity (DR/BC) strategy for Exchange 2019 based on multiple physical IT facilities or a combination of physical and cloud resources. Progent's ISSAP and GIAC certified cybersecurity experts can design and enforce company-wide mail security policies that adhere to business standards and government mandates. Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified network infrastructure consultants can help your business to plan, deploy and troubleshoot an affordable, protected, and robust network architecture for your Microsoft Exchange 2019 environment. Progent has more than two decades of experience working with Microsoft's Exchange products and can guide you how to adhere to industry best practices as you move through the critical phases of Exchange migration including coexistence, proof of concept, mailbox migration, legacy technology decommissioning, troubleshooting, education, and optimization.
Microsoft 365 Exchange Online Integration with On-premises Exchange
Microsoft allows you to create seamless hybrid ecosystems that combine Microsoft 365 and local Exchange deployments. This permits you to have specific mailboxes hosted on your physical datacenter and other mailboxes resident on Microsoft 365. Progent's Microsoft-certified Exchange consultants can assist your organization with any phase of designing, integrating and debugging your hybrid Exchange solution. Progent's Exchange specialists can deliver occasional expertise to help you through stubborn technical bottlenecks and also offer comprehensive project management outsourcing to ensure your hybrid Exchange solution is successfully completed on time and on budget. To learn more about Progent's consulting support for integrating Microsoft 365 and local Exchange environments, refer to Microsoft 365 integration with local Exchange.
Download Progent's Exchange 2019 Migration Expertise Datasheet
To download a PDF datasheet on Progent's migration support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2019, click:
Progent's Exchange 2019 Migration Support Datasheet. (PDF - 101 KB)
In order to ask Progent about professional support for MS Exchange Server technology, phone
An index of content::
Intune Endpoint Protection Configuration
Intune and Windows 8.1 Integration Support
Progent's Intune consultants can assist you to understand the strategic case for utilizing Intune for administering your mobile computers including notebooks, phones, and tablets powered by Windows, Apple iOS, and Android. Progent can assist you to configure security and compliance policies, plan and deploy pilot environments to confirm the benefits of Microsoft Intune for your environment, install Intune across your enterprise, combine Intune with SCCM for single-console change management, and troubleshoot your Intune solution.
Remote Network Intrusion Penetration Testing Juniper Junos Network and Security Manager
Juniper Junos Configuration Security Certification
Progent's Juniper Networks-authorized network consultants can assist your company to plan and deploy Juniper Firewall and VPN technology, optimize and support your network infrastructure, and upgrade smoothly from discontinued equipment to current versions. Progent's Junos OS consultants can also offer support for Juniper's flagship network operating system to enable you to simplify the management and improve the protection of your Juniper VPN devices and firewalls. Progent also has broad experience maintaining Juniper's NetScreen OS and ScreenOS software productss and can assist you manage networks that incorporate a mix of Juniper's software platforms.
Immediate Microsoft Server Virtualization Support and Integration
MS Virtual Server Administration Website Consultant
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, run on the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 platform and powered by technology originally produced by Connectix, provides the performance needed to carry out server consolidation, application upgrade, and server quarantine projects via virtualization technology in an enterprise-ready computing network with high scalability, manageability, and availability. Microsoft has aimed Virtual Server at companies wishing to improve ROI in application development and testing, upgrading from outdated mission-critical applications, and server consolidation. Progent's certified Virtual Server experts can assist your company to evaluate and integrate Microsoft Virtual Server.
Work at Home Security Computer Consulting
Professionals Offsite Workers Endpoint Security
Progent can help small and mid-size businesses to implement endpoint security defense systems and provide cleanup services required for a remote workforce.
Windows Server 2022 Security and Compliance Support
Onsite Technical Support Windows Server 2022 Hyper-V
Progent's certified Windows Server 2022 experts can assist your company to plan and implement a cost-effective upgrade to Windows Server 2022 using a self-hosted system architecture or a hybrid deployment model that integrates cloud-hosted Windows Server Online with an on-site implementation of Windows Server 2022.
Remote Monitoring and Reporting Consultants
Monitoring and Reporting Remote Support Services
Remote continuous network monitoring, proactive alerts, and actionable reports are vital to maintaining the health of your IT system and avoiding preventable and costly disruptions. Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) solutions have advanced to the point that companies of all sizes can get a level of network stability that was once reserved for large enterprises. Progent offers a variety Remote Monitoring and Management solutions available as low-cost service packages designed to assist your company to detect and resolve a most IT network problems before they get big enough to hurt your business.
Consultant Services Microsoft Teams security
24-7 Microsoft Teams and iPad Professionals
Progent can assist you to design an upgrade to Microsoft Teams from Skype for Business Online or Lync Server and install, manage, and debug a cloud-based or mixed implementation of Teams. Progent can assist you to integrate Teams with Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 apps, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and your phone system.
Microsoft AD Consultants
Specialist Azure AD Hybrid
Progent can assist you to plan and carry out an efficient migration from onsite Active Directory to cloud-hosted Microsoft Entra ID (formerly called Azure Actve Directory) or to a hybrid system that deploys Microsoft Entra Domain Services and Microsoft Entra Connect to unify identity and access services across onsite and Azure assets.
Setup and Support Extended Call Center Economics
Supplemental Helpdesk Cost Savings IT Services
Progent's Helpdesk management and co-management service programs allow organizations to reduce costs, improve output, and adapt quickly to sudden changes in business environments.
Cisco Firepower Configuration Integration
Remote Support Services Cisco ASA Firewall with Firepower
Cisco's Firepower NGFWs Firewalls provide a significant performance boost compared to Cisco's popular ASA 5500-X security appliances and offer centralized management of modern cybersecurity features such as application visibility and control (AVC), next-generation intrusion protection with intelligent prioritization of risks, advanced malware protection, URL filtering, and multi-node sandboxing. Progent's Cisco CCIE firewall consultants can help your organization to plan and carry out an efficient upgrade to Firepower firewalls from Cisco's legacy ASA 5500-X, ASA 5500, or PIX appliances and show you how to enhance Firepower appliances with Cisco's subscription-based security services to build and centrally control IT ecosystems that span branch offices, data centers, and cloud resources.
MySQL DBA Consulting Services
Urgent Microsoft Access Services
Progent's team of expert programmers, relational database designers, and program management consultants can assist enterprise clients to carry out development programs for Microsoft Windows, Linux, or Web applications. Progent's enterprise co-sourcing services include fast access to seasoned program managers for high-level planning and project co-ordination or Progent can assist clients fill in expertise gaps by providing relational database architects and programmers experienced in building RDBMS applications powered by Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, or MySQL. Progent's SharePoint Server experts can help businesses to incorporate SharePoint with other applications like Microsoft SQL and Excel to build data-intensive intranets and web portals. Progent also can provide experience with multiple web development technologies and can help clients to build, enhance, troubleshoot, or migrate web applications to utilize the most current web technology.
Biggest Live Online Windows 10 Instruction
Professional Online Microsoft Project Training
Progent provides live online instruction for popular client apps and operating systems including Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 Excel, Word, Publisher and Outlook plus Acrobat Writer, Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Windows 10 and 8.1. Remote instruction offers the advantages of conventional in-person instruction, including instant communication between clients and trainers, but avoids the expenses of travel and the hassle of attempting to accommodate the schedules of multiple workers. Available to single students or classes of any size, Progent's virtual training permits the trainer to conduct the class from a remote facility while the clients can be spread across a campus or across the the U.S. Virtual instruction utilizes proven learning tools such as broadcast white boards, real-time questions, and shared desktops. Sessions can be short and targeted to specific topics or extended in time and broader in coverage.
scom 2016 management servers Network Engineer
Network Consultants scom 2016 Exchange Server integration
System Center 2016 Operations Manager (SCOM 2016) helps to ensure top performance and dependable availability for key workloads by providing unified, mixed-platform tracking of physical and virtual resources installed across local datacenters and cloud environments. Progent's SCOM consulting group can provide advanced remote and onsite expertise to help businesses of all sizes to plan, implement, optimize, update and repair Operations Manager 2016 solutions. Progent can assist you to migrate to SCOM 2016 from older releases of Operations Manager or from different monitoring platforms, or combine multiple monitoring tools into a unified IT management ecosystem. Progent can also help you expand your SCOM 2016 environment to incorporate resources hosted on public clouds including Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS.
Select Topic: