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Microsoft Windows Server 2019 is the perpetual-license release of Microsoft's flagship server OS. Windows Server 2019 incorporates the updates to Windows Server 2016 formerly available only through the SAC program. Microsoft Windows Server 2019 features important enhancements in capacity, throughput, manageability, security and compliance, app compatibility, Linux support, Kubernetes technology, and hybrid integration of on-premises and cloud assets.
Headline enhancements of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 include Windows Admin Center for centralizing the management of hybrid local/cloud deployments, System Insights for utilizing modern predictive intelligence to control on-premises environments, Windows Defender ATP Exploit Guard for host-intrusion defense, container networking with Kubernetes, Cluster Sets for building and administering massive high-availability scale-out clusters, and Storage Migration Service for streamlining the migration from outdated editions of Windows Server.
Progent can help you to configure Microsoft Windows Server 2019 with current versions of Microsoft's popular applications by delivering expert services such as Exchange Server consulting, SQL Server 2019 integration expertise, SQL Server 2017 migration support, Microsoft SharePoint 2019 design and deployment, and Microsoft 365 integration expertise. Progent's solution design, troubleshooting and education services for Windows Server 2019 are available remotely and Progent also offers onsite consulting in major metropolitan areas throughout the United States and Canada.
Hybrid Cloud Solutions with Windows Server 2019
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 makes the Azure stack accessible to businesses of all sizes for creating onsite data centers, private cloud solutions, or hybrid architectures that combine on-prem resources with resources provided via the cloud.
Most of today's businesses manage a mix of on-premises and cloud-hosted resources to get the appropriate trade-off of flexibility, economy, throughput, reliability, and security/compliance they need. In some fields, compliance regulations demand that specific classes of network resources and information be kept locally. In other instances, corporate policies or compatibility issues necessitate line-of-business software to be run from a local data center. Microsoft Windows Server 2019 provides a cloud-aware solution that permits you to build and administer productive hybrid ecosystems that seamlessly utilize resources spread across on-premises facilities and the cloud.
Designing, creating and managing efficient hybrid solutions with Microsoft Windows Server 2019 requires a wide range of skills. This is outside the expertise of typical IT staffs maintained by smaller organizations. Progent's roster of subject-matter experts offers as-needed access to the knowledge you require for any aspect of hybrid network deployment and maintenance. Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified and Cisco-certified consultants, project managers, and information security professionals can help you to determine the advantages of Windows Server 2019 for your company and build a hybrid ecosystem powered by Microsoft Windows Server 2019 that offers top business value.
A Good Moment to Upgrade
The release of Windows Server 2019 coincided with the notification of End-of-Support status for Microsoft's popular Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 products. The result is that there will be no more security patches on-premises, no non-security updates, no free support programs, and no online technical content updates. Because of this, security and compliance issues will become increasingly challenging, maintenance costs may go up, and system reliability may go down.
If your company needs assistance upgrading to Microsoft Windows Server 2019 from WS 2008 or any other older edition of Windows Server, Progent offers the skills to make your upgrade process smooth, affordable, and on-schedule. Progent can assist you to:
- Document your applications and server roles running on your existing Windows Servers
- Migrate your VMs to the Private Progent Cloud or move to the latest version of on-premises Windows Server or to Microsoft Azure
- Fine-tune your configuration to minimize spend, manage assets, and enhance data security across hybrid workloads
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 is available in the value-priced Standard edition and the enterprise-class Datacenter version. The Datacenter version supports unlimited server virtualization while the Standard edition allows only two VMs. The Datacenter version also includes advanced features such as Shielded VMs, Network Controller, Host Guardian Service (HGS), Storage Replica, Software-defined Networking (SDN), and Storage Spaces Direct pooled storage. Most of these features are discussed in Microsoft Windows Server 2016 consulting services.
Windows Server 2019 has two installation alternatives: Server Core and Server with Desktop Experience. Server Core features a minimal attack surface and no traditional desktop interface but handles all role-based workloads. This so-called "headless" mode 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 rich graphical user interface (GUI) for local management. Progent's consultants can help your business to select the editions and installation options best suited to your environment, comprehend Microsoft's licensing requirements, and pick an efficient on-premises, cloud-based, or hybrid deployment model.
Top New Features of Windows Server 2019
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 features enhancements in scale, throughput, administration, Hyper-V virtualization, cybersecurity, hybrid deployment support, availability, container management, Linux co-existence, and other key enhancements. Editions of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 licensed under the SAC program are updated two times annually, and so make new features available more quickly than under the Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) release model.
Windows Server 2019 offers substantial enhancements in capacity compared to Microsoft 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 notable improvements in Microsoft Windows Server 2019 are:
- Cluster Sets is a technology that supports dramatic expansion in cluster node count in a Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) by combining multiple Failover Clusters into one large, uniformly managed fabric. Network managers can seamlessly move virtual machines throughout the Cluster Set fabric and manage all facets of a Failover Cluster from initial deployment to retirement. Clusters joined in a Cluster Set can take advantage of added storage and RAM in another cluster without requiring you to purchase more equipment. CPU and storage resources do not have to be identical, and robustness is as good or better than with traditional Failover Clusters.
Prior to Microsoft Windows Server 2019, multiple Hyper-V clusters for VMs were difficult to manage and modify 
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 features Cluster Sets for centralized management of failover clusters - Storage Replica has been included in the Standard edition of Microsoft Windows Server 2019. Storage Replica offers next-generation disaster recovery capability and is discussed in Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Storage Replica expertise. Novel capabilities of Storage Replica are a test failover function that enables you to bring a target volume online momentarily for testing and backup. Also, you can now control Storage Replica with the new Microsoft Windows Admin Center, which offers a GUI tool for managing procedures like server-to-server, cluster-to-cluster, and stretch cluster replication.
- Storage Spaces Direct improvements include duplicate elimination and compression for ReFS volumes, integrated support for persistent memory, support for using a consumer flash drive as a witness with dual-server clusters, increased scale (as high as 4 PB for each cluster), twice the performance for mirror-accelerated parity volumes and storage tiers, outlier detection for drive latency, and improved fault tolerance by manually delimiting volume allocation. Storage Spaces Direct features are discussed in Windows Storage Spaces Direct consultants.
- Storage Migration Service simplifies the task of moving storage from legacy servers to newer releases of Windows Server or Azure. You can deploy Storage Migration Service to migrate to new physical devices or to virtual machines. The utility automatically inventories servers and their data; relocates files, shares, and policy configurations to their intended hosts; and allows new hosts to take over the identity of your source servers so that your users and applications can have access to existing data without changing anything. Windows Admin Center's GUI can manage multiple concurrent migrations.
- Broader Linux support enables you to run Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and SUSE Enterprise Server within shielded virtual machines. Shielded VMs capability is discussed in Windows Server 2016 Shielded Virtual Machines consulting.
- Windows Admin Center is a new browser-based app installed locally for managing servers, clusters, HCI infrastructure with Storage Spaces Direct, Windows 10 devices, and Azure-hosted VMs. Windows Admin Center can be utilized to manage Windows Server 2012 and newer. Windows Admin Center is an "in-box" utility and therefore can be utilized 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 enables you to manage local and Azure cloud virtual machines from a centralized console - Container orchestration with Kubernetes, the open-source management system for Docker containers, includes improved features like the ability to utilize embedded security tooling to protect both Windows and Linux services. For a discussion of containers on Microsoft Windows Server, see Windows Server containers expertise.
- Duplicate Elimination and Compression for Resilient File System (ReFS) Volumes allows an order of magnitude more data on a specified ReFS volume. The ReFS file system, introduced in Windows Server 2012, integrates silicon high-performance tiers for hot data along with HDD/SDD capacity tiers to provide volume and resilience.
- Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection comes with Microsoft Windows Server 2019 as an integrated capability that needs no special activation fee and no agent installation.
- Encrypted Networks is a feature that encrypts traffic between virtual machines interacting within subnets that are designated as Encryption Enabled. Datagram Transport Layer Security on the virtual subnet prevents entities with access to the physical network from reading, modifying, or faking network data. Data traveling between encrypted subnets is not encrypted.
- A USB Flash Drive connected to your router can be assigned as a witness in two-server clusters under Storage Spaces Direct. With this economical, no-hassle technique, if a server fails and then returns to operation, the USB drive cluster can let you know which of the servers has the more recent data.
Windows Server 2019 permits a USB Flash drive to server as a witness in two-server clusters - Low Extra Delay Background Transport automatically reduces network traffic jams by consuming bandwidth only when the network is being sparingly used. This enables you to distribute massive, critical updates across a corporate network without degrading the performance of business-critical applications.
- System Insights uses advanced analytics and machine learning to inform capacity planning. System Insights operates locally on each Windows Server 2019 instance and analyses performance counters and system events to predict capacity requirements in key areas including utilization for volumes, storage capacity, processing, and networking.
- Windows Time Service works with the new time synchronization method called Precision Time Protocol (PTP) and provides correct time during a leap second. Microsoft Windows Server 2019 also offers time traceability and clock source stability. These features provide greater accuracy and precision, allow compliance with UTC and other regulations like as Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and support various time-critical workloads. Because network configuration is challenging to implement the PTP protocol, NTP is still the default synchronization method for Windows Server 2019.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist your business to plan and implement a cost-effective migration to Microsoft Windows Server 2019 using an on-prem network architecture or a hybrid on-premises/cloud-hosted architecture. Progent can help you to configure the new Storage Migration Service to trim away time and cost from the task of migrating from legacy Microsoft Windows Server platforms as far back as Windows Server 2003, and Progent's experts can show you how to benefit from the latest functions of Windows Server 2019 to improve throughput, scale, uptime, and manageability. Progent's Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 consultants can assist you to implement Exchange Server 2019 Mailbox and Edge Transport server roles and management tools, which need Windows Server 2019. Progent's SQL Server 2019 consulting and development experts can help your organization to configure Microsoft's primary database platform with Windows Server 2019 to run your critical applications in a modern IT environment.
Progent's data security consultants can help your company to follow best practices to create an up-to-date information security solution that is consistent across on-premises and cloud resources as well as mobile end points. Progent can help you to configure proactive data security monitoring using an effective combination of cybersecurity tools and services from Microsoft and third-party providers. Progent also offers cybersecurity audits to verify that your network complies with government and industry information security mandates such as SOX, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS 3.2.
Progent's roster of Cisco-certified CCIE network infrastructure experts is among the largest of any independent IT support company in the U.S. Progent can help you to plan, deploy and manage a modern and cost-effective hybrid network architecture that delivers the advanced high-availability and disaster 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 strategy for rebounding quickly from any foreseen catastrophe.
To help your business to support your Microsoft Windows Server 2019 and Windows Hyper-V virtualized environment, Progent can provide a variety of services such as Windows Admin Center consulting, PowerShell programming, SC Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) hybrid cloud management consulting, and System Center Operations Manager consultants. Progent also has assembled the ProSight line of remote monitoring and management (RMM) outsourcing packages that provide small and mid-size businesses an affordable and efficient option for network management.
Progent's Online Consulting Support and Debugging Services
Progent has two decades of background providing fast, top-tier remote IT consulting and debugging expertise and has delivered online support to clients in every state in the US and across Canada. (View Progent's Client Testimonials.) Progent also offers onsite support in major U.S. metropolitan areas. Progent offers as-needed support to assist you to resolve occasional IT issues or comprehensive project management outsourcing help.
If you are looking for urgent remote help from a Microsoft-certified expert, refer to Progent's Online Technical Support.
Contact Progent for Assistance with Windows Server 2019
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