Microsoft replaced Windows Server 2016 by releasing the Windows Server Standard 2019 on October 2, 2018. This Server operating system is the ninth edition of Windows Server. Windows Server is a stage where you can make a ground of connected apps, networks, and web services. This Server platform links the onsite environment with Azure and builds additional safety for your application and structure.

Tremendous Changes in General Features

Windows Admin Center: To manage servers, clusters, and hyper-converged structures, you need Windows Admin Center to handle them. It won’t charge additional costs beyond Windows and is prepared for manufacture. You can utilize Admin Center to simplify server management, remote work solutions, and update hyper-converged direction. To have Windows Admin Center, you can easily control servers and clusters.

System Insights: Server 2019 contain this new feature; it conveys local predictive analytics natively to Windows Server. This prediction ability is supported by a machine-learning system; it analyzes the Server system data, performance counters, and events. System insights help you realize your server functions, reducing operational costs by providing actual insights o your Server.

Hybrid Cloud: Hybrid Cloud advantages in Windows Server 2019 assist you in working your device both way of on-premises and remotely with Azure. This feature includes Storage Migration Service, Hyper-V, and Windows Admin Center Support, which makes Server 2019 Standard more effective than its previous version. With this Hybrid Cloud, you can comfortably handle business on-premises and digitally.

Enhance Security Updates

Windows Defender ATP: Advanced Threat Protection in Windows Server Standard 2019 increases security and reduces the chance of arising threats. Windows Defender Exploit Guard immediately turns on locks if it surmises a signal of attack and blocks entrance to your Server from malware attacks.

Software-defined Networking: Software-defined networking or SDN features enhance your Server’s security and help boost customer confidence in operating workloads onsite and off-site. Though the security raising SDN platform was first introduced in Windows Server 2016, you will see many improvements in Windows 2019 Server edition. Adding some new features in SDN on the 2019 Server, such as Encrypted networks, Firewall auditing, Virtual network peering, and Egress metering, elevated the security of your device in both ways.

Shielded Virtual Machine: This Shielded VMs is a security feature on Google Cloud that defends the rootkits and boot kits. It protects the device from remote attacks and malicious bugs. Shielded Virtual Machine is different from analog hardware security, designed for virtual IT infrastructure. 

Updates on the Application Platform

Container Improvements: The container has improved integrated identity, application compatibility, and management experience. It reduces image download size and startup times, upgrading the container work process. This improvement of Server 2019 made the application platform secure and updated.

Kubernetes Support: Windows Server Standard 2019 develops the functions of Kubernetes on Windows. Microsoft enhances networking flexibility and plugin support. Utilizing Kubernetes increases network protection for Linux and Windows services.

Storage Migration Service: It’s a new technology that assists older Servers in shifting to the latest version of Windows. Microsoft provides a graphical tool that stores data on Servers, then transfers and configures data to the new Servers. The identities of the older Servers move optionally to the newer ones; so that users don’t need to change anything.

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