Server Management Consulting and Support
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Consulting:
Planning, Deployment, Management and Troubleshooting
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 is the self-hosted version of Microsoft's server OS. Microsoft Windows Server 2019 incorporates the updates to Microsoft Windows Server 2016 previously offered only via Microsoft's Semi-Annual Channel. Windows Server 2019 features important enhancements in scale, performance, manageability, security and compliance, app compatibility, Linux co-existence, Kubernetes networking, and hybrid integration of local and cloud-hosted resources.
Top enhancements of Windows Server 2019 are Windows Admin Center for unifying the management of hybrid on-premises/cloud-hosted resources, System Insights for utilizing modern predictive intelligence to manage local networks, Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Exploit Guard for host-intrusion prevention, container networking with Kubernetes, Cluster Sets for creating and administering large high-availability scale-out clusters, and Storage Migration Service for simplifying the migration from outdated versions of Windows Server.
Progent can help your organization to integrate Microsoft Windows Server 2019 with the latest releases of Microsoft's popular apps by providing services such as Exchange Server support, SQL Server 2019 integration and development consulting, SQL Server 2017 migration consulting, Microsoft SharePoint 2019 design and deployment, and Microsoft 365 hybrid integration consulting. Progent's solution design, debugging and training services for Microsoft Windows Server 2019 are available online and Progent also offers on-premises support in metropolitan areas throughout the United States and Canada.
Hybrid Cloud Solutions with Windows Server 2019
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 makes the Azure stack available to businesses of all sizes for creating onsite networks, private cloud solutions, or hybrid systems that integrate local IT assets with resources provided via the cloud.
Many of today's businesses deploy a combination of local and cloud-hosted resources to get the right balance of control, economy, throughput, availability, and security/compliance they require. In some fields, regulations demand that specific classes of resources and data be kept internally. In other instances, corporate policies or legacy applications require line-of-business software to be hosted locally. Windows Server 2019 provides a cloud-friendly platform that permits you to implement and administer productive hybrid ecosystems that seamlessly utilize resources spread across on-premises facilities and the cloud.
Planning, creating and managing optimized hybrid environments with Microsoft Windows Server 2019 requires a wide array of knowledge and experience. This is beyond the expertise of most in-house IT groups in smaller businesses. Progent's team of subject-matter experts (SMEs) gives you on-demand access to the knowledge you need for any aspect of hybrid network implementation and maintenance. Progent's Microsoft-certified and Cisco-certified consultants, project managers, and cybersecurity professionals can assist you to assess the advantages of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 for your company and build a hybrid environment powered by Windows Server 2019 that offers maximum business value.
The Right Moment to Upgrade
The release of Windows Server 2019 coincided with the announcement 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 fixes on-premises, no non-security updates, no free support options, and no online technical updates. Because of this, security and compliance issues will become more difficult, support costs and effort may increase, and system stability may go down.
If your company could use assistance moving up to Windows Server 2019 from WS 2008 or from any other out-of-date edition of Windows Server, Progent offers the knowledge and experience to make your migration efficient, economical, and on-schedule. Progent can help you:
- Inventory your apps and server roles running on your current Windows Servers
- Move your virtual machines to the Progent Cloud or upgrade to the current release of on-prem Windows Server or to Azure
- Fine-tune your configuration to reduce costs, manage resources, and strengthen data security across hybrid workloads
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 is available in the value-priced Standard version and the enterprise-class Datacenter edition. The Datacenter edition supports unlimited server virtualization while the Standard version allows two VMs. The Datacenter version also offers powerful technologies like Shielded VMs, Network Controller, Host Guardian Service, Storage Replica, Software-defined Networking (SDN), and Storage Spaces Direct. Most of these features are discussed in Microsoft Windows Server 2016 expertise.
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 has two deployment alternatives: Server Core and Server with Desktop Experience. The Server Core option features a minimal attack surface and no local interface but handles all server roles. This so-called "headless" mode needs to be managed remotely, for example with Power Shell or Windows Admin Center. The Server with Desktop Experience option is a complete installation and includes a rich graphical user interface for local management. Progent's experts can help you to choose 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 network architecture.
Top New Features of Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019 offers improved scale, throughput, manageability, virtualization, cybersecurity, hybrid deployment support, disaster recovery, orchestration, Linux support, and other important improvements. Editions of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 acquired under the SAC release model are updated two times annually, and so make new features available more quickly than with the Long-Term Servicing Channel release model.
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 offers 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 |
Additional headline enhancements in Windows Server 2019 include:
- Cluster Sets is a feature that allows orders of magnitude increases in cluster node count in a Software Defined Data Center by grouping numerous Failover Clusters into one large, uniformly managed interconnected topology. Network managers can seamlessly migrate virtual machines across the Cluster Set fabric and control every facet of a Failover Cluster from onboarding to retirement. Clusters included in a Cluster Set can take advantage of added storage and memory in a separate cluster without requiring that you buy additional equipment. CPU and storage resources do not need to be identical, and robustness matches or exceeds conventional Failover Clusters.
Before Windows Server 2019, large numbers of Hyper-V clusters for virtual machines were complicated to manage and scale 
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 features Cluster Sets for unified management of failover clusters - Storage Replica is now part of the Standard version of Windows Server 2019. Storage Replica offers advanced disaster recovery support and is described in Windows Server 2016 Storage Replica consulting. Novel capabilities of Storage Replica include a test failover function that allows you to put a destination volume online temporally for testing and backup. Also, administrators can now control Storage Replica with the new Windows Admin Center, which offers a graphical utility for controlling procedures like server-to-server and stretch cluster replication.
- Storage Spaces Direct improvements include duplicate elimination and compression for ReFS volumes, native support for storage-class persistent memory, the ability to use a low-cost flash drive to act as a witness with dual-server clusters, greater scale (up to 4 PB per cluster), twice the throughput for mirror-accelerated parity volumes, outlier detection for abnormal disk latency, and the ability to increase availability by selectively delimiting volume allocation. Microsoft's Storage Spaces Direct technology is described in Windows Storage Spaces Direct consultants.
- Storage Migration Service simplifies the process of moving the volume data from legacy servers to current versions of Windows Server. You can deploy Storage Migration Service to migrate to new hardware or to virtual machines. The tool inventories Windows and Linux servers and their data; copies files, shares, and security configurations to their intended servers; and permits destination hosts to take over the identity of your source servers so that your users and apps can access existing data without changing anything. 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 within shielded VMs. Shielded Virtual Machines capability is described in Windows Server 2016 Shielded Virtual Machines consulting.
- Windows Admin Center is a browser-based app deployed on-premises for controlling servers, clusters, hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) with Storage Spaces Direct, Windows 10 endpoints, 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 disconnected from the public Internet. By posting the Windows Admin Center gateway server to the public Internet, you can manage your servers safely from anywhere.
Windows Admin Center enables you to administer on-premises and Azure-hosted virtual machines from a centralized console - Container networking with Kubernetes, the popular open-source management tool for Docker containers, offers enhanced features like being able to utilize integrated security tooling to protect both Windows and Linux services. For a discussion of containers on Windows Server, see Microsoft Windows Server containers expertise.
- Deduplication and Data Compression for Resilient File System Volumes allows an order of magnitude more data on a specified Resilient File System (ReFS) volume. The ReFS file technology, introduced in Windows Server 2012, integrates silicon high-performance tiers for handling hot data along with HDD/SDD high-capacity tiers to provide volume and resilience.
- Windows Defender ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) comes with Windows Server 2019 as a built-in feature that needs no additional license and no agent installation.
- Encrypted Networks is a feature that encrypts traffic between VMs interacting inside subnets that are set to be Encryption Enabled. Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) on the virtual subnet blocks entities accessing the physical network from looking at, modifying, or spoofing 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, easy-to-configure technique, when a server fails and then returns to operation, the USB drive cluster can let you know which of the servers in the cluster contains the fresher data.
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 allows a USB Flash drive to act as a witness in two-server clusters - Low Extra Delay Background Transport automatically reduces network traffic jams by taking up bandwidth only if the network is being sparsely used. LEDBAT allows an organization to publish large, important updates throughout an enterprise network without impacting the performance of mission-critical applications.
- System Insights uses predictive analytics to improve capacity planning. System Insights operates locally on each Microsoft Windows Server 2019 instance and analyses performance stats and system events to predict capacity requirements in important 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 delivers accurate time during a leap second. Microsoft Windows Server 2019 also supports time traceability and software time-stamping. These features deliver improved accuracy and precision, comply with UTC and other regulations such as Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and support various time-sensitive applications. Since network setup demands care to implement the PTP protocol, NTP remains the default time synchronization method for Windows Server 2019.
Progent's Microsoft-certified experts can help your business to plan and implement a cost-effective 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 Microsoft's new Storage Migration Service to trim away effort and cost from the task of migrating from legacy Windows Server platforms as far back as Microsoft Windows Server 2003, and Progent's experts can help you to benefit from new features of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 to enhance performance, expandability, uptime, and manageability. Progent's Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 consultants can help you to implement Exchange Server 2019 Mailbox and Edge Transport server roles and management tools, which require Windows Server 2019. Progent's Microsoft SQL Server 2019 consultants can help your organization to configure Microsoft's primary database platform with Windows Server 2019 to handle your vital workloads in a modern IT environment.
Progent's certified cybersecurity consultants can help your company to adhere to best practices to create a modern security environment that is seamless across local and cloud resources as well as mobile devices. Progent can help your company to set up 24x7 remote cybersecurity monitoring using an effective combination of cybersecurity solutions from Microsoft and third-party providers. Progent also can run cybersecurity assessments to verify that your IT environment meets regulatory and industry cybersecurity requirements like SOX, ISO 27001, PCI DSS 3.2, and FedRAMP.
Progent's team of Cisco CCIE network experts is among the largest of any independent IT services firm in the United States. Progent can assist your organization to plan, implement and maintain a resilient and affordable hybrid network infrastructure that delivers the latest HA and disaster recovery technologies included with Windows Server 2019. Progent's disaster recovery and business continuity (DR/BC) preparedness consultants can help your business plan and test a comprehensive process for rebounding rapidly from any foreseen disaster.
To help you to manage your Windows Server 2019 and Windows Hyper-V environment, Progent offers a range of services such as Windows Admin Center deployment, PowerShell programming, SC Virtual Machine Manager hybrid on-prem/cloud management expertise, and System Center Operations Manager consultants. Progent also offers the ProSight line of remote monitoring and management outsourcing services that provide small and mid-size businesses an economical and efficient solution for network management.
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Progent's Remote Consulting Support and Troubleshooting Services
Progent has 20 years of experience providing fast, high-level online technical consulting and troubleshooting expertise and has delivered online support to businesses in every state in the United States and throughout Canada. (See Progent's Client Testimonials.) Progent also provides on-premises assistance in major U.S. metropolitan areas. Progent offers as-needed support to assist your business with occasional technical problems or comprehensive project management outsourcing help.
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