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What's new in Windows Server 2019

This article describes some of the new features in Windows Server 2019. Windows Server 2019 is built on the strong foundation of Windows Server 2016 and brings numerous innovations on four key themes: Hybrid Cloud, Security, Application Platform, and Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI).

General Windows Admin Center

Windows Admin Center is a locally deployed, browser-based app for managing servers, clusters, hyper-converged infrastructure, and Windows 10 PCs. It comes at no extra cost beyond Windows and is ready to use in production.

You can install Windows Admin Center on Windows Server 2019 and Windows 10 and earlier versions of Windows and Windows Server, and use it to manage servers and clusters running Windows Server 2008 R2 and later.

For more info, see Windows Admin Center.

Desktop experience

Because Windows Server 2019 is a Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) release, it includes the Desktop Experience. Semi-Annual Channel (SAC) releases don't include the Desktop Experience by design; they're strictly Server Core and Nano Server container image releases. As with Windows Server 2016, during setup of the operating system you can choose between Server Core installations or Server with Desktop Experience installations.

System Insights

System Insights is a new feature available in Windows Server 2019 that brings local predictive analytics capabilities natively to Windows Server. These predictive capabilities, each backed by a machine-learning model, locally analyze Windows Server system data, such as performance counters and events. System Insights allows you to understand how your servers are functioning and helps you reduce the operational expenses associated with reactively managing issues in your Windows Server deployments.

Hybrid Cloud Server Core App Compatibility Feature on Demand

Server Core App Compatibility Feature on Demand (FOD) significantly improves the app compatibility by including a subset of binaries and components from Windows Server with the Desktop Experience. Server Core is kept it as lean as possible by not adding the Windows Server Desktop Experience graphical environment itself, increasing the functionality and compatibility.

This optional feature on demand is available on a separate ISO and can be added to Windows Server Core installations and images only, using DISM.

Windows Deployment Services (WDS) Transport Server role added to Server Core

Transport Server contains only the core networking parts of WDS. You can now use Server Core with the Transport Server role to create multicast namespaces that transmit data (including operating system images) from a standalone server. You can also use it if you want to have a PXE server that allows clients to PXE boot and download your own custom setup application.

Remote Desktop Services integration with Azure AD

With Azure AD integration you can use Conditional Access policies, Multifactor Authentication, Integrated authentication with other SaaS Apps using Azure AD, and many more. For more information, see Integrate Azure AD Domain Services with your RDS deployment.

Networking

We made several improvements to the core network stack, such as TCP Fast Open (TFO), Receive Window Autotuning, IPv6, and more. For more information, see the Core Network Stack feature improvement post.

Dynamic vRSS and VMMQ

In the past, Virtual Machine Queues and Virtual Machine Multi-Queues (VMMQs) enabled much higher throughput to individual VMs as network throughputs first reached the 10GbE mark and beyond. Unfortunately, the planning, baselining, tuning, and monitoring required for success became a much larger undertaking than IT administrators anticipated.

Windows Server 2019 improves these optimizations by dynamically spreading and tuning the processing of network workloads as needed. Windows Server 2019 ensures peak efficiency and removes the configuration burden for IT administrators. To learn more, see Host network requirements for Azure Local.

Security Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

ATP's deep platform sensors and response actions expose memory and kernel level attacks and respond by suppressing malicious files and terminating malicious processes.

Windows Defender ATP Exploit Guard is a new set of host-intrusion prevention capabilities enabling you to balance security risk and productivity requirements. Windows Defender Exploit Guard is designed to lock down the device against a wide variety of attack vectors and block behaviors commonly used in malware attacks. The components are:

Security with Software Defined Networking (SDN)

Security with SDN delivers many features to increase customer confidence in running workloads, either on-premises, or as a service provider in the cloud.

These security enhancements are integrated into the comprehensive SDN platform introduced in Windows Server 2016.

For a complete list of what's new in SDN see, What's New in SDN for Windows Server 2019.

Shielded Virtual Machines improvements

We made the following improvements to Shielded Virtual Machines.

Branch office improvements

You can now run shielded virtual machines on machines with intermittent connectivity to the Host Guardian Service by using the new fallback HGS and offline mode features. Fallback HGS allows you to configure a second set of URLs for Hyper-V to try if it can't reach your primary HGS server.

Even if you can't reach the HGS, offline mode lets you continue to start up your shielded VMs. Offline mode also lets you start your VMs as long as the VM has started successfully once and the host's security configuration hasn't changed.

Troubleshooting improvements

We also made it easier to troubleshoot your shielded VMs by enabling support for VMConnect Enhanced Session Mode and PowerShell Direct. These tools are useful when you lose network connectivity to your VM and need to update its configuration to restore access. To learn more, see Guarded fabric and shielded VMs.

You don't need to configure these features because they become automatically available when you place a shielded VM on a Hyper-V host running Windows Server version 1803 or later.

Linux support

If you run mixed-OS environments, Windows Server 2019 now supports running Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server inside shielded virtual machines.

HTTP/2 for a faster and safer Web Encrypted networks

Virtual network encryption encrypts virtual network traffic between virtual machines within subnets that have the Encryption Enabled label. Encrypted networks also use Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) on the virtual subnet to encrypt packets. DTLS protects your data from eavesdropping, tampering, and forgery by anyone with access to the physical network.

For more information, see Encrypted networks.

Firewall auditing

Firewall auditing is a new feature for SDN firewall that records any flow processed by SDN firewall rules and access control lists (ACLs) that have logging enabled.

Virtual network peering

Virtual network peering lets you connect two virtual networks seamlessly. Once peered, the virtual networks appear in monitoring as one.

Egress metering

Egress metering offers usage meters for outbound data transfers. Network Controller uses this feature to keep an allowlist of all IP ranges used within SDN per virtual network. These lists consider any packet heading to a destination not included within the listed IP ranges to be billed as outbound data transfers.

Storage

Here are some of the changes we've made to Storage in Windows Server 2019. Storage is also affected by updates to Data deduplication, particularly its update to DataPort API for optimized ingress or egress to deduplicated volumes.

File Server Resource Manager

It's now possible to prevent the File Server Resource Manager service from creating a change journal (also known as a USN journal) on all volumes when the service starts. Preventing the creation of the change journey can conserve space on each volume, but will disable real-time file classification. For more information, see File Server Resource Manager overview.

SMB Storage Migration Service

Storage Migration Service makes it easier to migrate servers to a newer version of Windows Server. This graphical tool inventories data on servers, then transfers the data and configuration to newer servers. The Storage Migration Service can also move the identities of the old servers to the new servers so users don't have to reconfigure their profiles and apps. For more information, see Storage Migration Service.

Windows Admin Center version 1910 added the ability to deploy Azure virtual machines. This update integrates Azure VM deployment into Storage Migration Service. For more information, see Azure VM migration.

You can also access the following post-release-to-manufacturing (RTM) features when running the Storage Migration Server orchestrator on Windows Server 2019 with KB5001384 installed or on Windows Server 2022:

Storage Spaces Direct

Here's what's new in Storage Spaces Direct. For more information about how to acquire validated Storage Spaces Direct systems, see Azure Local solution overview.

Storage Replica

Here's what's new in Storage Replica.

Data deduplication

Windows Server 2019 now supports the Resilient File System (ReFS). ReFS lets you store up to ten times more data on the same volume with deduplication and compression for the ReFS filesystem. The variable-size chunk store comes with an optional compression feature that can maximize savings rates, while the multi-threaded post-processing architecture keeps performance impact minimal. ReFS supports volumes up to 64 TB and deduplicates the first 4 TB of each file. To learn more, see How to turn on deduplication and compression in Windows Admin Center for a quick video demonstration.

Failover Clustering

We added the following features to failover clustering in Windows Server 2019:

Application Platform Linux containers on Windows

It's now possible to run Windows and Linux-based containers on the same container host, using the same docker daemon. You can now have a heterogeneous container host environment providing flexibility to application developers.

Built-in support for Kubernetes

Windows Server 2019 continues the improvements to compute, networking, and storage from the Semi-Annual Channel releases needed to support Kubernetes on Windows. More details are available in upcoming Kubernetes releases.

Container improvements Compute improvements Encrypted Networks

Encrypted Networks - Virtual network encryption allows encryption of virtual network traffic between virtual machines that communicate with each other within subnets marked as Encryption Enabled. It also utilizes Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) on the virtual subnet to encrypt packets. DTLS protects against eavesdropping, tampering, and forgery by anyone with access to the physical network.

Network performance improvements for virtual workloads

Network performance improvements for virtual workloads maximizes the network throughput to virtual machines without requiring you to constantly tune or over-provision your host. Improved performance lowers the operations and maintenance cost while increasing the available density of your hosts. These new features are:

Low Extra Delay Background Transport (LEDBAT) is a latency optimized, network congestion control provider designed to automatically yield bandwidth to users and applications. LEDBAT consumes bandwidth available while the network isn't in use. The technology is intended for use when deploying large, critical updates across an IT environment without impacting customer facing services and associated bandwidth.

Windows Time Service

The Windows Time Service includes true UTC-compliant leap second support, a new time protocol called Precision Time Protocol, and end-to-end traceability.

High performance SDN gateways

High performance SDN gateways in Windows Server 2019 greatly improves the performance for IPsec and GRE connections, providing ultra-high-performance throughput with much less CPU utilization.

New Deployment UI and Windows Admin Center extension for SDN

Now, with Windows Server 2019, it's easy to deploy and manage through a new deployment UI and Windows Admin Center extension that enable anyone to harness the power of SDN.

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

WSL enables server administrators to use existing tools and scripts from Linux on Windows Server. Many improvements showcased in the command line blog are now part of Windows Server, including Background tasks, DriveFS, WSLPath, and much more.

Active Directory Federation Services

Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) for Windows Server 2019 includes the following changes.

Protected sign ins

Protected sign ins with AD FS now include the following updates:

Other security improvements

AD FS 2019 includes the following security improvements:

Authentication and policy capabilities

AD FS 2019 includes the following authentication and policy capabilities:

Single sign-on improvements

AD FS 2019 also includes the following single sign-on (SSO) improvements:

Support for building modern line-of-business apps

AD FS 2019 includes the following features to support building modern line-of-business (LOB) apps:

Supportability improvements

Admins can now configure AD FS to allow users to send error reports and debug logs to them as a ZIP file for troubleshooting. Admins can also configure a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) connection to automatically send the ZIP file to a triage email account. Another setting lets admins automatically create a ticket for their support system based on that email.

Deployment updates

The following deployment updates are now included in AD FS 2019:

SAML updates

AD FS 2019 includes the following Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) updates:

Azure AD style resource specification in scope parameter

Previously, AD FS required the desired resource and scope to be in a separate parameter in any authentication request. For example, the following example OAuth request contains a scope parameter:

https://fs.contoso.com/adfs/oauth2/authorize?response_type=code&client_id=claimsxrayclient&resource=urn:microsoft:adfs:claimsxray&scope=oauth&redirect_uri=https://adfshelp.microsoft.com/
ClaimsXray/TokenResponse&prompt=login

With AD FS on Windows Server 2019, you can now pass the resource value embedded in the scope parameter. This change is consistent with authentication against Microsoft Entra ID.

The scope parameter can now be organized as a space-separated list that structures each entity as a resource or scope.

Note

You can only specify one resource in the authentication request. If you include more than one resource in the request, AD FS returns an error and authentication doesn't succeed.


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