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Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Consulting:
Planning, Deployment, Management and Troubleshooting
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 is the perpetual-license version of Microsoft's server operating system. Windows Server 2019 includes the updates for Microsoft Windows Server 2016 formerly offered exclusively through Microsoft's SAC program. Microsoft Windows Server 2019 offers significant enhancements in capacity, performance, manageability, cybersecurity, application compatibility, Linux support, container technology, and hybrid combinations of local and cloud assets.
Headline new features of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 are Windows Admin Center for centralizing the management of hybrid on-premises/cloud-hosted resources, System Insights for utilizing advance predictive intelligence to manage local environments, Windows Defender ATP Exploit Guard for host-intrusion prevention, container networking with Kubernetes, Cluster Sets for building and administering large high-availability scale-out clusters, and Microsoft's Storage Migration Service for streamlining the migration from legacy versions of Windows Server.
Progent can assist your organization to integrate Microsoft Windows Server 2019 with current versions of Microsoft's key apps by delivering expert services that include Exchange Server consulting, SQL Server 2019 integration and development consulting, SQL Server 2017 upgrade expertise, SharePoint 2019 design and integration, and Microsoft 365 hybrid integration expertise. Progent's solution design, troubleshooting and training services for Windows Server 2019 are available remotely and Progent also offers on-premises support in metropolitan areas across the U.S. and Canada.
Hybrid Cloud Integration with Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019 makes Microsoft's Azure stack accessible to businesses of all sizes for creating onsite networks, private clouds, or hybrid architectures that integrate on-prem resources with infrastructure and services hosted on private and public clouds.
Most of today's companies manage a mix of on-premises and cloud-based resources to get the right balance of flexibility, affordability, performance, availability, and security/compliance they need. For some industries, compliance regulations demand that certain classes of resources and information be managed internally. In other cases, company policies or compatibility issues necessitate line-of-business software to be hosted locally. Microsoft Windows Server 2019 offers a cloud-aware platform that permits you to implement and administer powerful hybrid ecosystems that transparently utilize resources spread across on-premises facilities and the cloud.
Planning, configuring and administering efficient hybrid solutions with Microsoft Windows Server 2019 calls for a broad array of skills. This is beyond the comfort zone of typical in-house IT groups maintained by smaller organizations. Progent's roster of subject-matter experts (SMEs) offers as-needed access to the knowledge you require for any facet of hybrid network deployment and maintenance. Progent's Microsoft-certified and Cisco-certified consultants, project managers, and information security professionals can assist you to assess the benefits of Windows Server 2019 for your company and create a hybrid environment powered by Microsoft Windows Server 2019 that offers maximum return on investment.
The Right Moment to Upgrade
The introduction of Windows Server 2019 was accompanied by the announcement of End-of-Support (EOS) 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 enhancements, no free support programs, and no downloadable technical content updates. Consequently, security and compliance will be increasingly difficult, support costs may increase, and network stability may drop.
If your company needs expertise migrating to Microsoft Windows Server 2019 from WS 2008 or any other out-of-date version of Windows Server, Progent offers the skills to make your upgrade process smooth, affordable, and on-schedule. Progent can assist you to:
- Identify and inventory your applications and server roles on your existing servers
- Migrate your VMs to the Private Progent Cloud or upgrade to the latest release of self-hosted Windows Server or to Microsoft Azure
- Optimize your configuration to minimize costs, manage assets, and strengthen data security across hybrid workloads
Windows Server 2019 is offered in the value-priced Standard version and the high-end Datacenter edition. The Datacenter version permits unlimited VMs whereas the Standard version allows only two virtual machines. The Datacenter edition also offers advanced technologies like Shielded VMs, Network Controller automation, Host Guardian Service, Storage Replica, SDN network management, and Storage Spaces Direct pooled storage. Most of these features are discussed in Windows Server 2016 consulting services.
Windows Server 2019 has two installation options: Server Core and Server with Desktop Experience. The Server Core option has a small attack surface and has no local interface but supports all server roles. This "headless" mode needs to be managed remotely, e.g. with Power Shell or Remote Server Administration Tools. The Server with Desktop Experience alternative is a complete installation and includes a comprehensive GUI for local management. Progent's consultants can help your company to choose the versions and deployment options most appropriate for your situation, comprehend Microsoft's licensing rules, and pick an optimal onsite, cloud, or hybrid network architecture.
Top New Features of Windows Server 2019
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 features enhancements in scale, throughput, manageability, virtualization, cybersecurity, hybrid deployment support, availability, orchestration, Linux support, and other major enhancements. Editions of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 licensed under the Semi-Annual Channel model are updated two times a year, and so make new features available much sooner than with Microsoft's Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) program.
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 offers substantial increases in capacity vs. 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 include:
- Cluster Sets is a feature that allows dramatic expansion in cluster node count in a Software Defined Data Center by combining multiple Failover Clusters into one massive, centrally managed fabric. Network managers can seamlessly move virtual machines across the Cluster Set fabric and control every facet of a Failover Cluster from initial deployment to decommissioning. Clusters joined within a Cluster Set can take advantage of additional disk storage and RAM in another cluster without requiring you to purchase additional hardware. CPU and storage resources do not need to be the same, and resiliency matches or exceeds ordinary Failover Clusters.
Before Windows Server 2019, large numbers of Hyper-V clusters for VMs were difficult to manage and expand 
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 features Cluster Sets for centralized management of failover clusters - Storage Replica is now part of the Standard version of Windows Server 2019. Storage Replica offers advanced disaster recovery capability and is discussed in Windows Server 2016 Storage Replica configuration. New features of Storage Replica in Windows Server 2019 are a test failover function that permits managers to bring a target volume online momentarily for testing and backup. Also, administrators can now manage Storage Replica with the new Microsoft Windows Admin Center, which provides a GUI utility for managing processes like server-to-server and stretch cluster replication.
- Storage Spaces Direct enhancements include duplicate elimination and compression for Resilient File System volumes, native support for storage-class persistent memory, the ability to use a low-cost flash drive to act as a witness with two-server clusters, greater scale (up to 4 PB per cluster), double the throughput for mirror-accelerated parity volumes, outlier detection for physical drive latency, and the ability to increase availability by manually changing the limit of volume allocation. Windows Server's Storage Spaces Direct technology is described in Microsoft Windows Storage Spaces Direct deployment experts.
- Storage Migration Service simplifies the process of moving storage from older servers to volumes in current versions of Windows Server. You can utilize Storage Migration Service to migrate to current hardware or to VMs. The utility automatically inventories multiple servers and their data; moves files, shares, and policy configurations to their new servers; and permits new hosts to assume the identity of your legacy servers so that your users and apps can access existing data without changing anything. Windows Admin Center's GUI can manage multiple simultaneous migration processes.
- Broader Linux support allows organizations to host Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server within shielded VMs. Shielded VMs technology is discussed in Windows Server 2016 Shielded VMs consulting.
- Windows Admin Center is a browser-based application deployed locally for managing servers, clusters, hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) with Storage Spaces Direct, Windows 10 computers, and Azure-based VMs. Windows Admin Center can be utilized 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 disconnected from the public Internet. By publishing the Windows Admin Center gateway server to the public Internet, you can administer your servers securely from any location.
Windows Admin Center allows you to manage on-premises and Azure-hosted VMs from a single pane of glass - Container orchestration with Kubernetes, the popular management automation tool for Docker containers, offers enhanced features such as the ability to utilize embedded security tooling to guard Windows and Linux services. For information about containers on Microsoft Windows Server, visit Windows Server containers consulting.
- Deduplication and Compression for Resilient File System Volumes allows an order of magnitude more data on a specified ReFS volume. Microsoft's ReFS file system, first released in Windows Server 2012, integrates silicon high-performance tiers for hot data along with HDD/SDD capacity tiers for scale and fault tolerance.
- Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection is included with Microsoft Windows Server 2019 as an integrated capability requiring no additional activation fee and no agent software to install.
- Encrypted Networks is a new feature that encrypts traffic between virtual machines communicating inside subnets set to be Encryption Enabled. Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) on the virtual subnet blocks anyone with access to the physical network from looking at, modifying, or faking network data. Data traveling between encrypted subnets is unencrypted.
- A USB Flash Drive connected to your router can be used as a witness in dual-server clusters under Storage Spaces Direct. Using this economical, easy-to-configure technique, if a server fails and then recovers, the USB drive cluster can say which server has the fresher data.
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 allows 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 consuming bandwidth only when the network is being sparingly used. LEDBAT allows an organization to send massive, important updates across a corporate network without degrading the responsiveness of mission-critical services.
- System Insights uses advanced analytics to improve capacity planning. System Insights runs locally on each Windows Server 2019 instance and analyses performance stats and system events to predict capacity needs in key areas including utilization for volumes, storage capacity, CPU, and networking.
- Windows Time Service supports the new time synchronization method known as Precision Time Protocol (PTP) and delivers accurate time during a leap second. Microsoft Windows Server 2019 also supports software time-stamping and clock source stability. These capabilities provide improved accuracy and precision, comply with UTC and other regulations like as Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and meet the requirements of special time-critical applications. Because network configuration is challenging to support PTP, NTP is still the default time synchronization technique for Microsoft Windows Server 2019.
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified consultants can help your business to design and implement a cost-effective upgrade to 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 moving from legacy Windows Server platforms as old as Microsoft Windows Server 2003, and Progent can show you how to benefit from the latest features of Windows Server 2019 to improve performance, scale, uptime, and manageability. Progent's Exchange Server 2019 consultants can help you to configure Exchange Server 2019 Mailbox and Edge Transport roles and management utilities, which require Microsoft Windows Server 2019. Progent's SQL Server 2019 consultants can help your organization to configure Microsoft's primary database engine with Windows Server 2019 to run your critical workloads in a modern network environment.
Progent's certified cybersecurity experts can assist your company to follow best practices to build a modern information security environment that is seamless across local and cloud-based assets and mobile end points. Progent can assist your company to configure centralized cybersecurity monitoring and management using an optimal mix of cybersecurity technologies from Microsoft as well as third-party vendors. Progent also can run security assessments to confirm that your network meets government and industry information security requirements such as SOX, PCI DSS 3.2, and FedRAMP.
Progent's team 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 maintain a modern and cost-effective hybrid network architecture that incorporates the state-of-the-art high-availability and recovery technologies built into Microsoft Windows Server 2019. Progent's disaster recovery and business continuity planning experts can assist you create and test a comprehensive process for rebounding rapidly from any anticipated catastrophe.
To help your organization to support your Microsoft Windows Server 2019 and Windows Hyper-V environment, Progent can provide a range of expertise like Windows Admin Center consulting, PowerShell scripting, System Center Virtual Machine Manager hybrid on-prem/cloud management consulting, and SCOM deployment. Progent also offers the ProSight line of remote monitoring and management (RMM) outsourcing packages that give small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) an affordable and efficient option for server and endpoint management.
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Progent's Remote Consulting Support and Debugging Services
Progent has two decades of background delivering fast, high-level online technical consulting and debugging expertise and has delivered online support to organizations in every state in the United States and across Canada. (See Progent's Customer Testimonials.) Progent also provides onsite assistance in major U.S. metropolitan areas. Progent offers as-needed support to assist your organization to resolve challenging IT problems or end-to-end project management outsourcing and co-sourcing help.
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