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Windows Server 2019 Consulting Services:
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Microsoft Windows Server 2019 is the perpetual-license release of Microsoft's flagship server operating system. Microsoft Windows Server 2019 incorporates the enhancements to Microsoft Windows Server 2016 previously offered only via the Semi-Annual Channel. Windows Server 2019 features important improvements in scale, throughput, management, security and compliance, application compatibility, Linux support, Kubernetes technology, and hybrid integration of local and cloud assets.
Top enhancements of Windows Server 2019 include Windows Admin Center for unifying the management of hybrid local/cloud-hosted deployments, System Insights for taking advantage of advance predictive analytics to manage on-premises environments, Windows Defender ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) Exploit Guard for host-intrusion defense, container orchestration with Kubernetes, Cluster Sets for creating and managing massive high-availability scale-out clusters, and Microsoft's Storage Migration Service for simplifying the upgrade process from legacy editions of Windows Server.
Progent can help your organization to configure Microsoft Windows Server 2019 with current versions of Microsoft's popular apps by providing expert services such as Microsoft Exchange Server support, SQL Server 2019 integration consulting, SQL Server 2017 migration support, SharePoint 2019 design and integration, and Microsoft 365 integration consulting. Progent's consulting, troubleshooting and education support for Microsoft Windows Server 2019 are offered online and Progent also provides on-premises services in major metropolitan areas across the United States and Canada.
Hybrid Cloud Solutions with Windows Server 2019
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 makes the Azure stack accessible to organizations of all sizes for creating onsite networks, private cloud solutions, or hybrid architectures that combine on-prem resources with resources hosted on private and public clouds.
The majority of today's businesses manage a mix of local and cloud-based IT assets to get the appropriate balance of flexibility, affordability, performance, availability, and security/compliance they need. In some industries, compliance regulations demand that certain classes of resources and information be managed locally. In other instances, company standards or compatibility issues necessitate line-of-business applications to be hosted locally. Windows Server 2019 offers a cloud-aware solution that allows you to implement and manage powerful hybrid networks that transparently utilize resources distributed across on-premises data centers and the cloud.
Designing, configuring and managing optimized hybrid solutions with Microsoft Windows Server 2019 demands a wide range of knowledge and experience. This can be beyond the expertise of typical IT staffs in smaller businesses. Progent's team of experts offers on-demand access to the skills you require for any aspect of hybrid network deployment and maintenance. Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified and Cisco-certified consultants, project managers, and cybersecurity specialists can assist your business to determine the benefits of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 for your company and build a hybrid environment powered by Microsoft Windows Server 2019 that delivers maximum return on investment.
A Good Time to Upgrade
The release of Windows Server 2019 was accompanied by the notification of End-of-Support (EOS) status for Microsoft's popular Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 platforms. This means there will be no more security patches on-premises, no non-security enhancements, no free support programs, and no online technical updates. Consequently, security and compliance will become more difficult, maintenance costs and effort may go up, and system reliability may suffer.
If your company needs expertise upgrading to Windows Server 2019 from WS 2008 or another older version of Microsoft Windows Server, Progent offers the knowledge and experience to make your upgrade process efficient, economical, and on-schedule. Progent can help you:
- Document your applications and server roles running on your current Windows Servers
- Migrate your VMs to the Progent Cloud or upgrade to the latest version of on-prem Windows Server or to Azure
- Optimize your resources to minimize spend, manage resources, and enhance security and compliance across hybrid workloads
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 is available in the value-priced Standard edition and the enterprise-class Datacenter edition. The Datacenter edition supports unlimited VMs while the Standard edition supports only two VMs. The Datacenter edition also offers advanced features like Shielded Virtual Machines, Network Controller, Host Guardian Service, Storage Replica disaster recovery, Software-defined Networking (SDN), and Storage Spaces Direct. Most of these features are described in Windows Server 2016 expertise.
Windows Server 2019 has two installation options: Server Core and Server with Desktop Experience. Server Core has a small attack surface and no local interface but handles all server roles. This "headless" mode must be managed remotely, e.g. via the command line or Remote Server Administration Tools. The Server with Desktop Experience option is a full installation and features a rich graphical user interface (GUI) for local management. Progent's experts can assist your organization to determine the editions and installation options most appropriate for your situation, comprehend Microsoft's licensing rules, and pick an optimal onsite, cloud, or hybrid network model.
Top New Features of Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019 features enhancements in scale, performance, administration, Hyper-V virtualization, cybersecurity, hybrid networking, availability, container management, Linux support, and other major enhancements. Editions of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 acquired under Microsoft's Semi-Annual Channel release model are updated two times a year, and so make enhancements available more quickly than under Microsoft's Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) program.
Windows Server 2019 delivers significant improvements in capacity compared to Microsoft Windows Server 2016:
| Scale 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 notable enhancements in Windows Server 2019 include:
- Cluster Sets is a technology that supports dramatic expansion in cluster nodes in a Software Defined Data Center by combining multiple smaller Failover Clusters into one large, centrally managed fabric. You can seamlessly migrate VMs across the Cluster Set fabric and manage all aspects of a Failover Cluster from onboarding to decommissioning. Clusters included within a Cluster Set can take advantage of additional storage and memory in another cluster without requiring that you buy additional hardware. CPU and storage resources do not need to be the same, and robustness matches or exceeds conventional Failover Clusters.
Prior to Microsoft Windows Server 2019, multiple Hyper-V clusters for VMs were a hassle to manage and expand 
Windows Server 2019 features Cluster Sets for centralized management of failover clusters - Storage Replica has been included in the Standard version of Microsoft Windows Server 2019. Storage Replica offers advanced disaster recovery support and is discussed in Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Storage Replica consulting. New capabilities of Storage Replica in Windows Server 2019 are a test failover option that enables managers to put a target volume online temporally for verification and backup. In addition, you can now manage Storage Replica with the new Microsoft Windows Admin Center, which provides a GUI utility for managing operations such as cluster-to-cluster and stretch cluster replication.
- Storage Spaces Direct enhancements include duplicate elimination and compression for Resilient File System volumes, integrated support for storage-class persistent memory, the ability to use a commodity flash drive as a witness with dual-server clusters, increased scale (as high as 4 PB for each cluster), twice the throughput for mirror-accelerated parity volumes and storage tiers, outlier detection for physical disk latency, and improved fault tolerance by manually delimiting volume allocation. Microsoft's Storage Spaces Direct features are discussed in Microsoft Windows Storage Spaces Direct consultants.
- Storage Migration Service streamlines the task of moving the volume data from older servers to volumes in newer versions of Windows Server or Azure. You can deploy Storage Migration Service to migrate to current physical devices or to virtual machines. The tool inventories Windows and Linux servers and their data; moves files, shares, and policy configurations to their intended servers; and allows new servers to take over the identity of the legacy servers so that users and applications can have access to existing data without making any changes. Windows Admin Center's GUI can manage many simultaneous migration processes.
- Broader Linux support allows you to host Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on shielded VMs. Microsoft's Shielded VMs technology is discussed in Windows Server 2016 Shielded VMs consulting.
- Windows Admin Center is a web-based app installed on-premises for controlling servers, clusters, HCI infrastructure with Storage Spaces Direct, Windows 10 devices, and Azure-based VMs. Windows Admin Center can be used to manage Windows Server 2012 and newer. Windows Admin Center is an "in-box" management tool and so can be used to manage servers on private networks not connected to the public Internet. By publishing the Windows Admin Center gateway server to the public Internet, you can manage your servers securely from any location.
Windows Admin Center enables you to manage on-prem and Azure-hosted virtual machines from a centralized console - Container orchestration with Kubernetes, the open-source management automation tool for Docker containers, offers enhanced capability like the ability to utilize integrated network security to protect both Windows and Linux services. For a discussion of containers on Windows Server, visit Microsoft Windows Server containers consulting.
- Deduplication and Data Compression for Resilient File System Volumes supports an order of magnitude more data on a given Resilient File System (ReFS) volume. Microsoft's ReFS file technology, first released in Windows Server 2012, combines RAM-level performance tiers for hot data along with HDD/SDD high-capacity tiers for scale and fault tolerance.
- Windows Defender ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) comes with Windows Server 2019 as a built-in feature requiring no special license and no agent installation.
- Encrypted Networks is a new function that encrypts data traveling between VMs interacting within subnets designated as Encryption Enabled. Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) on the virtual subnet blocks anyone accessing the physical network from looking at, modifying, or faking network data. Data traveling between encrypted subnets is not encrypted.
- A USB Flash Drive plugged into your router can be used as a witness in two-server clusters under Storage Spaces Direct. Using this low-cost, no-hassle technique, if a server fails and then returns to operation, the USB drive cluster can tell you which server contains the fresher data.
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 permits a USB Flash drive to server as a witness in dual-server clusters - Low Extra Delay Background Transport (LEDBAT) automatically reduces network traffic jams by taking up bandwidth only when the network is being sparsely utilized. This enables an organization to send large, critical updates throughout an enterprise network without impacting the responsiveness of business-critical services.
- System Insights uses predictive analytics and machine learning to simplify capacity planning. System Insights runs internally on each Windows Server 2019 instance and analyses performance counters and system events to forecast capacity needs in important areas including utilization for volumes, total storage capacity, processing, and networking.
- Windows Time Service works with 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 improved accuracy and precision, comply with UTC and other standards like as Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and support various time-sensitive workloads. Because network configuration requires care to support PTP, Network Time Protocol (NTP) remains the default time synchronization technique for Windows Server 2019.
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified consultants can assist you to design and carry out an efficient upgrade to Microsoft Windows Server 2019 using a local network model or a hybrid local-plus-cloud architecture. Progent can show you how to configure Microsoft's streamlined Storage Migration Service to reduce effort and expense from the task of migrating from outdated Windows Server platforms as far back as Windows Server 2003, and Progent can assist you to benefit from new functions of Windows Server 2019 to improve performance, expandability, availability, and ease of management. Progent's Exchange Server 2019 experts can help you to configure Exchange Server 2019 Mailbox and Edge Transport server roles and management utilities, which require Windows Server 2019. Progent's Microsoft SQL Server 2019 consultants can assist you to configure Microsoft's flagship database platform with Microsoft Windows Server 2019 to run your vital workloads in a modern IT environment.
Progent's certified data security experts can help you to adhere to best practices to create an up-to-date security environment that is seamless across local and cloud assets as well as mobile end points. Progent can help you to set up centralized and proactive data security monitoring using an optimal combination of cybersecurity tools and services from Microsoft and third-party vendors. Progent also can run cybersecurity assessments to confirm that your IT environment complies with regulatory and industry cybersecurity requirements such as SOX, ISO 27001, PCI DSS 3.2, and FedRAMP.
Progent's team of Cisco-certified CCIE network infrastructure consultants is one of the biggest of any independent IT services firm in the United States. Progent can assist your company to plan, configure and manage a modern and affordable hybrid network infrastructure that delivers the state-of-the-art HA and recovery technologies built into Windows Server 2019. Progent's disaster recovery and business continuity preparedness consultants can assist your business plan and validate a comprehensive solution for rebounding rapidly from any anticipated disaster.
To help you to manage your Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server Hyper-V environment, Progent offers a range of expertise such as Windows Admin Center deployment, PowerShell programming, SC Virtual Machine Manager hybrid cloud management consulting, and System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) experts. Progent also has assembled the ProSight family of remote monitoring and management (RMM) outsourcing services that give small and middle-size businesses (SMBs) an economical and efficient solution for network management.
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