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Windows Server 2019 Consulting Services:
Planning, Deployment, Management and Troubleshooting
Windows Server 2019 is the on-premises release of Microsoft's server OS. Microsoft Windows Server 2019 incorporates all the enhancements for Microsoft Windows Server 2016 formerly offered exclusively via Microsoft's Semi-Annual Channel (SAC). Windows Server 2019 offers significant improvements in scale, performance, management, cybersecurity, application compatibility, Linux support, Kubernetes technology, and hybrid integration of local and cloud-hosted resources.
Top enhancements of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 are Windows Admin Center for centralizing the management of hybrid local/cloud resources, System Insights for utilizing modern predictive intelligence to control local networks, Windows Defender ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) Exploit Guard for host-intrusion prevention, container orchestration using Kubernetes, Cluster Sets technology for deploying and managing massive non-stop scale-out clusters, and Storage Migration Service for simplifying the upgrade process from outdated editions of Windows Server.
Progent can help your organization to configure Microsoft Windows Server 2019 with the latest versions of Microsoft's popular apps by delivering services that include Exchange Server consulting, SQL Server 2019 integration expertise, SQL Server 2017 upgrade services, Microsoft SharePoint 2019 planning and integration, and Microsoft 365 integration consulting. Progent's solution design, debugging and training support for Microsoft Windows Server 2019 are available remotely and Progent also provides on-premises support in metropolitan areas throughout the United States and Canada.
Hybrid Cloud Integration with Microsoft Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019 makes the Azure stack accessible to organizations of all sizes for creating on-premises networks, private cloud solutions, or hybrid systems that combine on-prem IT assets with resources hosted on private and public clouds.
The majority of today's businesses deploy a combination of local and cloud-hosted IT assets to get the right trade-off of control, economy, performance, reliability, and security they require. For some fields, regulations require that specific classes of resources and information be managed locally. In other cases, company policies or legacy applications require mission-critical software to be hosted from a local data center. Windows Server 2019 provides a cloud-friendly solution that permits you to build and administer powerful hybrid ecosystems that transparently access resources spread across on-premises data centers and the cloud.
Designing, building and managing efficient hybrid solutions with Microsoft Windows Server 2019 demands a broad array of knowledge and experience. This is outside the comfort zone of most IT groups maintained by smaller organizations. Progent's team of subject-matter experts (SMEs) offers on-demand access to the knowledge you need for any aspect of hybrid network implementation and management. Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified and Cisco-certified consulting experts, project managers, and cybersecurity specialists can help your business to assess the benefits of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 for your organization and build a hybrid environment powered by Microsoft Windows Server 2019 that offers top business value.
A Good Time to Migrate
The introduction of Windows Server 2019 coincided with the notification of End-of-Support (EOS) status for Microsoft's popular Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 products. This means there will be no more security patches onsite, no other enhancements, no free support options, and no downloadable technical updates. Because of this, security will become increasingly challenging, maintenance costs and effort may go up, and network stability may suffer.
If your business could use assistance upgrading to Microsoft Windows Server 2019 from Windows Server 2008 or from any other legacy version of Microsoft Windows Server, Progent can provide the knowledge and experience to make your migration smooth, affordable, and on-schedule. Progent's Windows experts can assist you to:
- Identify your apps and server roles on your existing servers
- Migrate your virtual machines to the Progent Cloud or upgrade to the current version of on-premises Windows Server or to Microsoft Azure
- Optimize your resources to reduce costs, manage assets, and strengthen security and compliance across hybrid workloads
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 is available in the economical Standard edition and the enterprise-class Datacenter edition. The Datacenter edition supports unlimited server virtualization whereas the Standard version supports only two VMs. The Datacenter edition also offers powerful features such as Shielded Virtual Machines, Network Controller automation, Host Guardian Service (HGS), Storage Replica, Software-defined Networking, and Storage Spaces Direct. Most of these features are described in Microsoft Windows Server 2016 consulting.
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 has two deployment alternatives: Server Core and Server with Desktop Experience. The Server Core option features a small attack surface and no local interface but handles all server roles. This so-called "headless" version must be managed remotely, for example via Power Shell or Remote Server Administration Tools. The Server with Desktop Experience option is a full installation and features a comprehensive GUI for local management. Progent's experts can help your business to determine the versions and installation options most appropriate for your situation, understand Microsoft's licensing requirements, and pick an efficient on-premises, cloud, or hybrid network architecture.
Top New Features of Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019 offers enhancements in expandability, throughput, administration, Hyper-V virtualization, data security, hybrid deployment support, availability, orchestration, Linux co-existence, and other major enhancements. Editions of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 licensed under the Semi-Annual Channel program are updated two times annually, and so make enhancements available much sooner than with the Long-Term Servicing Channel release model.
Windows Server 2019 offers substantial increases in scale compared to Windows Server 2016:
| Capacity Limit | Windows Server 2016 | Windows Server 2019 |
| Max raw capacity per cluster | 1 PB | 4 PB |
| Max raw capacity per server | 100 TB | 400 TB |
| Max number of volumes | 32 | 64 |
| Max size per volume | 32 TB | 64 TB |
Additional headline enhancements in Microsoft Windows Server 2019 are:
- Cluster Sets is a feature that allows orders of magnitude increases in cluster node count in a Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) by grouping numerous Failover Clusters into one massive, uniformly managed interconnected topology. Network managers can transparently migrate VMs across the Cluster Set fabric and control all aspects of a Failover Cluster from initial deployment to decommissioning. Clusters joined within a Cluster Set can benefit from additional disk storage and memory in a separate cluster without requiring you to purchase additional hardware. Compute and storage assets do not need to be identical, and resiliency matches or exceeds ordinary Failover Clusters.
Prior to Microsoft Windows Server 2019, multiple Hyper-V clusters for VMs were complicated to manage and scale 
Windows Server 2019 features Cluster Sets for unified management of failover clusters - Storage Replica is now part of the Standard edition of Windows Server 2019. Storage Replica offers next-generation disaster recovery support and is described in Windows Server 2016 Storage Replica configuration. New features of Storage Replica in Windows Server 2019 include a test failover function that allows managers to bring a destination volume online temporally for testing and backup. In addition, you can now control Storage Replica with Windows Admin Center, which offers a GUI utility for managing procedures like server-to-server and stretch cluster replication.
- Storage Spaces Direct enhancements include deduplication and compression for Resilient File System volumes, integrated support for persistent memory, the ability to use a low-cost flash drive as a witness with two-server clusters, greater scale (as high as 4 PB for each cluster), twice the throughput for mirror-accelerated parity, outlier detection for disk latency, and the ability to increase fault tolerance by selectively changing the limit of volume allocation. Microsoft's Storage Spaces Direct technology is described in Windows Storage Spaces Direct consultants.
- Storage Migration Service streamlines the task of migrating the volume data from legacy servers to current releases of Windows Server or Azure. You can use Storage Migration Service to move to new hardware or to virtual machines. The tool automatically inventories Windows and Linux servers and their data; moves files, shares, and policy settings to their intended hosts; and permits new hosts to take over the identity of the source servers so your users and applications can have access to existing data without making any changes. Windows Admin Center's graphical interface can manage many simultaneous migrations.
- Expanded Linux support allows you to host Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server within shielded VMs. Shielded VMs technology is discussed in Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Shielded VMs consulting.
- Windows Admin Center is a new browser-based application installed on-premises for managing servers, clusters, HCI infrastructure running Storage Spaces Direct, Windows 10 endpoints, and Azure-based virtual machines. Windows Admin Center can be used to manage Windows Server 2012 and later. Windows Admin Center is an "in-box" tool and therefore can be used to manage servers on private networks disconnected from the public Internet. By publishing the Windows Admin Center gateway server to the public Internet, you can manage your servers safely from any location.
Microsoft Windows Admin Center allows you to administer on-prem and Azure-hosted VMs from a single pane of glass - Container orchestration with Kubernetes, the popular management automation system for Docker containers, includes improved capability like being able to utilize integrated security tooling to protect Windows and Linux services. For a discussion of containers on Windows Server, see Microsoft Windows Server containers consulting.
- Deduplication and Compression for Resilient File System Volumes supports an order of magnitude more data on a given ReFS volume. Microsoft's ReFS file technology, introduced in Microsoft Windows Server 2012, integrates RAM-level performance tiers for handling hot data along with HDD/SDD high-capacity tiers to provide scale and resilience.
- Windows Defender ATP comes with Windows Server 2019 as a built-in feature that needs no additional license and no agent software to install.
- Encrypted Networks is a feature that encrypts data traveling between VMs communicating inside subnets set to be Encryption Enabled. Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) on the virtual subnet prevents entities accessing the physical network from looking at, altering, or faking network data. Traffic between encrypted subnets is not encrypted.
- A USB Flash Drive connected to your router can be assigned as a witness in dual-server clusters under Storage Spaces Direct. With this economical, easy-to-configure technique, when a server fails and then recovers, the USB drive cluster can say which of the servers in the cluster has the more recent data.
Windows Server 2019 permits a USB Flash drive to act as a witness in dual-server clusters - LEDBAT automatically reduces network traffic jams by consuming bandwidth only if the network is being only moderately used. This enables you to distribute massive, critical updates across a corporate network without impacting the performance of mission-critical applications.
- System Insights uses advanced analytics to simplify capacity planning. System Insights runs internally on each Windows Server 2019 instance and analyses performance counters and system events to predict capacity needs in important areas including usage for volumes, storage capacity, processing, and network traffic volume.
- Windows Time Service works with the modern time synchronization method known as Precision Time Protocol (PTP) and delivers accurate time during a leap second. Microsoft Windows Server 2019 also offers time traceability and software time-stamping. These capabilities deliver improved accuracy and precision, comply with UTC and other standards like as Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and meet the requirements of special time-sensitive workloads. Since network setup requires care to implement the PTP protocol, Network Time Protocol (NTP) is still the default synchronization technique for Microsoft Windows Server 2019.
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified consultants can assist you to design and carry out a cost-effective migration to Windows Server 2019 using a local network model or a hybrid local-plus-cloud model. Progent can assist you to use the streamlined Storage Migration Service to reduce time and cost from the project of migrating from legacy Windows Server releases as far back as Microsoft Windows Server 2003, and Progent can show you how to take advantage of new functions of Windows Server 2019 to enhance throughput, expandability, availability, and manageability. Progent's Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 consultants can assist you to configure Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 Mailbox and Edge Transport roles and management utilities, which need Windows Server 2019. Progent's Microsoft SQL Server 2019 consulting and development experts can help you to configure Microsoft's primary database platform with Microsoft Windows Server 2019 to handle your vital workloads in a leading-edge IT environment.
Progent's data security consultants can assist your company to follow best practices to build a modern information security environment that is consistent across local and cloud resources and mobile end points. Progent can assist you to configure centralized security monitoring using an optimal combination of cybersecurity solutions from Microsoft as well as third-party providers. Progent also can run cybersecurity audits to make sure that your IT environment complies with government and industry information security mandates like SOX, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS 3.2.
Progent's team of Cisco-certified CCIE network infrastructure consultants is among the biggest of any independent IT support firm in the United States. Progent can assist your business to design, deploy and manage a resilient and cost-effective hybrid network architecture that incorporates the modern high-availability and recovery technologies built into Windows Server 2019. Progent's disaster recovery and business continuity (DR/BC) planning experts can assist your business create and validate a comprehensive strategy for recovering rapidly from any anticipated disaster.
To help you to support your Windows Server 2019 and Windows Hyper-V virtualized environment, Progent can provide a range of services such as Windows Admin Center consulting, PowerShell scripting, System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) hybrid on-prem/cloud management consulting, and System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) integration. Progent also offers the ProSight family of remote monitoring and management (RMM) outsourcing packages that provide small and middle-size businesses an economical and efficient solution for network management.
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Progent's Online Consulting Support and Debugging Services
Progent has 20 years of experience providing fast, high-level remote IT guidance and troubleshooting expertise and has provided remote expertise to businesses in every state in the United States and throughout Canada. (See Progent's Customer Testimonials.) Progent also offers on-premises assistance in major U.S. metropolitan areas. Progent offers on-demand expertise to assist your company to resolve challenging IT issues or comprehensive project management outsourcing and co-sourcing services.
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