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Microsoft Windows Server 2019 is the perpetual-license release of Microsoft's flagship server operating system. Windows Server 2019 incorporates the enhancements for Microsoft Windows Server 2016 formerly offered only via the Semi-Annual Channel (SAC). Windows Server 2019 features important enhancements in scale, performance, manageability, security and compliance, application compatibility, Linux co-existence, Kubernetes technology, and hybrid combinations of on-premises and cloud-hosted assets.
Top enhancements of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 include Windows Admin Center for unifying the management of hybrid local/cloud resources, System Insights for taking advantage of modern predictive intelligence to control on-premises networks, Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Exploit Guard for host-intrusion defense, container orchestration using Kubernetes, Cluster Sets for building and administering large non-stop scale-out clusters, and Storage Migration Service for streamlining the upgrade process from legacy editions of Windows Server.
Progent can assist your organization to integrate Windows Server 2019 with current versions of Microsoft's popular apps by delivering expert services that include Exchange Server expertise, Microsoft SQL Server 2019 integration consulting, SQL Server 2017 migration services, SharePoint 2019 planning and integration, and Microsoft 365 hybrid integration expertise. Progent's solution design, debugging and education services for Windows Server 2019 are offered remotely and Progent also offers on-premises consulting in metropolitan areas throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Hybrid Cloud Integration with Microsoft Windows Server 2019
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 makes Microsoft's Azure stack available to organizations of any size for creating on-premises networks, private clouds, or hybrid systems that combine local IT assets with resources hosted on private and public clouds.
Most of today's businesses deploy a combination of local and cloud-hosted resources to deliver the appropriate balance of control, affordability, performance, availability, and security/compliance they need. In some fields, compliance regulations require that specific types of network resources and data be managed internally. In other instances, company policies or legacy applications necessitate mission-critical software to be run locally. Windows Server 2019 provides a cloud-aware platform that permits you to implement and manage productive hybrid ecosystems that seamlessly access resources distributed across local facilities and the cloud.
Planning, configuring and administering efficient hybrid environments with Windows Server 2019 requires a wide array of knowledge and experience. This can be outside the expertise of most in-house IT groups in smaller businesses. Progent's team of subject-matter experts (SMEs) gives you as-needed access to the skills you need for any aspect of hybrid network deployment and maintenance. Progent's Microsoft-certified and Cisco-certified consulting experts, project managers, and cybersecurity professionals can assist your business to determine the advantages of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 for your organization and build a hybrid environment powered by Microsoft Windows Server 2019 that delivers maximum return on investment.
A Good Moment to Migrate
The introduction of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 coincided with the notification of End-of-Support status for Microsoft's widely used Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 platforms. The result is that there will be no more security patches onsite, no other enhancements, no free support programs, and no online technical content updates. Because of this, security and compliance will be more challenging, maintenance costs and effort may go up, and network robustness may go down.
If your organization needs help migrating to Microsoft Windows Server 2019 from Windows Server 2008 or another legacy release of Windows Server, Progent can provide the knowledge and experience to make your migration smooth, economical, and on-schedule. Progent can help you:
- Inventory your apps and server roles on your current servers
- Migrate your VMs to the Progent Cloud or move to the latest version of on-premises Windows Server or to Microsoft Azure
- Optimize your resources to minimize spend, manage resources, and enhance data security across hybrid applications
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 is offered in the affordable Standard edition and the high-end Datacenter version. The Datacenter edition permits unlimited server virtualization while the Standard edition allows only two VMs. The Datacenter version also includes powerful technologies such as Shielded VMs, Network Controller, Host Guardian Service, Storage Replica, Software-defined Networking (SDN), and Storage Spaces Direct. Most of these technologies are discussed in Windows Server 2016 consulting.
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 has two deployment alternatives: Server Core and Server with Desktop Experience. Server Core has a minimal attack surface and no traditional desktop interface but handles all server roles. This "headless" version must be managed remotely, for example with the command line or Windows Admin Center. The Server with Desktop Experience option is a complete installation and features a comprehensive graphical user interface for local management. Progent's experts can help your company to determine the versions and installation options most appropriate for your situation, understand Microsoft's licensing requirements, and choose an optimal onsite, cloud-based, or hybrid network model.
Top New Features of Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019 offers enhancements in expandability, performance, manageability, virtualization, cybersecurity, hybrid networking, availability, container management, Linux support, and other key improvements. Versions of Windows Server 2019 acquired under the Semi-Annual Channel program are updated twice a year, making enhancements available more quickly than with Microsoft's Long-Term Servicing Channel model.
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 delivers substantial enhancements in capacity vs. 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 |
Other headline enhancements in Windows Server 2019 are:
- Cluster Sets is a technology that supports orders of magnitude increases in cluster nodes in a Software Defined Data Center by combining numerous Failover Clusters into one massive, centrally managed fabric. You can transparently migrate VMs across the Cluster Set fabric and manage every facet of a Failover Cluster from initial deployment to decommissioning. Clusters included in a Cluster Set can take advantage of additional disk storage and RAM in another cluster without requiring you to purchase more hardware. CPU and storage assets do not have to be the same, and robustness matches or exceeds traditional Failover Clusters.
Before Microsoft Windows Server 2019, multiple Hyper-V clusters for virtual machines were cumbersome to manage and expand 
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 features Cluster Sets for centralized control of failover clusters - Storage Replica has been added to the Standard edition of Windows Server 2019. Storage Replica offers advanced disaster recovery capability and is described in Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Storage Replica deployment. New capabilities of Storage Replica in Windows Server 2019 are a test failover option that permits managers to bring a destination volume online temporally for verification and backup. Also, administrators can now manage Storage Replica with the new Windows Admin Center, which offers a GUI utility for managing processes like server-to-server and cluster-to-cluster replication.
- Storage Spaces Direct enhancements include duplicate elimination and compression for Resilient File System (ReFS) volumes, integrated support for persistent memory (PMem), support for using a low-cost flash drive to act as a witness with two-server clusters, greater scale (as high as 4 PB for each cluster), twice the performance for mirror-accelerated parity volumes and storage tiers, outlier detection for physical drive latency, and the ability to increase availability by manually changing the limit of volume allocation. Microsoft's Storage Spaces Direct technology is discussed in Microsoft Windows Storage Spaces Direct consulting.
- Storage Migration Service streamlines the task of migrating storage from legacy servers to volumes in newer versions of Windows Server. You can deploy Storage Migration Service to migrate to new physical devices or to virtual machines. The tool inventories multiple servers and their data; relocates files, shares, and security configurations to their intended hosts; and allows new servers to assume the identity of the source servers so your users and applications can access existing data without making any changes. Windows Admin Center's user interface can control many concurrent migrations.
- Expanded Linux support allows organizations to run Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and SUSE Enterprise Server on shielded virtual machines. Shielded VMs technology is discussed in Windows Server 2016 Shielded Virtual Machines consulting.
- Windows Admin Center is a browser-based app deployed locally for controlling servers, clusters, hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) running Storage Spaces Direct, Windows 10 computers, and Azure-hosted virtual machines. Windows Admin Center can be utilized to manage Windows Server 2012 and newer. Windows Admin Center is an "in-box" tool and therefore can be used to manage servers on private networks not connected to the public Internet. By posting the Windows Admin Center gateway server to the public Internet, you can administer your servers securely from anywhere.
Windows Admin Center allows you to manage on-prem and Azure cloud VMs from a centralized console - Container orchestration with Kubernetes, the popular management automation system for Docker containers, includes improved features such as being able to utilize embedded security tooling to protect Windows and Linux services. For information about containers on Windows Server, see Microsoft Windows Server containers consulting.
- Deduplication and Data Compression for Resilient File System (ReFS) Volumes allows 10 times more data on a specified ReFS volume. Microsoft's ReFS file system, first released 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 Microsoft Windows Server 2019 as a built-in capability requiring no additional license and no agent installation.
- Encrypted Networks is a feature that encrypts traffic between virtual machines interacting within subnets you have set to be Encryption Enabled. Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) on the virtual subnet blocks entities accessing the physical network from reading, modifying, or spoofing network data. Data traveling between encrypted subnets is unencrypted.
- A USB Flash Drive plugged into your router can be used as a witness in two-server clusters under Storage Spaces Direct. With this economical, easy-to-configure technique, if a server fails and then recovers, the USB drive cluster can tell you which server holds the fresher data.
Windows Server 2019 permits a USB Flash drive to act as a witness in dual-server clusters - Low Extra Delay Background Transport automatically reduces network congestion by consuming bandwidth only if the network is being only moderately utilized. This allows you to publish massive, critical updates throughout an enterprise network without impacting the performance of mission-critical applications.
- System Insights uses predictive analytics to improve capacity planning. System Insights runs internally on each Microsoft Windows Server 2019 instance and analyses performance counters and events to forecast capacity needs in key areas including utilization for volumes, total storage capacity, processing, and networking.
- Windows Time Service supports the modern time synchronization technique known as Precision Time Protocol and provides accurate time during a leap second. Microsoft Windows Server 2019 also supports time traceability and software time-stamping. These capabilities deliver greater accuracy and precision, comply with UTC and other standards such as Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and support various time-critical applications. Since network setup is challenging to implement the PTP protocol, the older Network Time Protocol is still the default synchronization method for Microsoft Windows Server 2019.
Progent's Microsoft-certified experts can help you to design and implement an efficient migration to Microsoft Windows Server 2019 using an on-prem network model or a hybrid on-premises/cloud-hosted model. Progent can assist you to configure the streamlined Storage Migration Service to reduce time and expense from the process of migrating from outdated Microsoft Windows Server platforms as old as Microsoft Windows Server 2003, and Progent's experts can show you how to take advantage of the latest functions of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 to improve performance, scale, availability, and ease of management. Progent's Exchange Server 2019 support experts can assist you to implement Exchange Server 2019 Mailbox and Edge Transport server roles and management tools, which require Microsoft Windows Server 2019. Progent's Microsoft SQL Server 2019 configuration experts can assist you to integrate Microsoft's flagship database engine with Windows Server 2019 to handle your critical applications in a modern IT environment.
Progent's certified data security experts can assist your company to adhere to leading practices to create an up-to-date information security environment that is seamless across local and cloud-based assets as well as mobile end points. Progent can assist your company to configure 24x7 remote cybersecurity monitoring and management using an effective combination of cybersecurity solutions from Microsoft as well as third-party vendors. Progent also can run cybersecurity assessments to make sure that your network complies with government and industry cybersecurity requirements like SOX, ISO 27001, PCI DSS 3.2, and FedRAMP.
Progent's roster of Cisco-certified CCIE infrastructure consultants is one of the largest of any independent IT support firm in the U.S. Progent can assist your business to plan, implement and manage a modern and cost-effective hybrid network infrastructure that incorporates the modern high-availability and recovery technologies built into Windows Server 2019. Progent's disaster recovery and business continuity planning experts can help your company create and test an end-to-end solution for recovering quickly from any foreseen disaster.
To help you to support your Microsoft Windows Server 2019 and Hyper-V environment, Progent can provide a range of expertise like Windows Admin Center deployment, PowerShell scripting, System Center Virtual Machine Manager hybrid cloud management expertise, and System Center Operations Manager consultants. Progent also has assembled the ProSight line of remote monitoring and management outsourcing services that provide small and middle-size businesses an affordable and effective solution for network management.
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