Exchange Team Luxembourg

Exchange Server 2019 is now available and can be downloaded from the Volume Licensing Service Center.

Exchange 2019 requires Windows Server 2019...

 

Microsoft rolled out Windows Server 2019 and Windows 10 version 1809 on Oct. 2, but days later pulled them from public distribution because of a bug that deleted user files in several default folders, including the all-important Document folder. The company blocked access to the software - in the case of Windows Server 2019, Microsoft removed it from the Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) and Azure Marketplace - and warned customers who had downloaded but not installed it to ditch the disk image.

 

What’s new ?

 

Performance levels have been given a significant boost, with Exchange Server 2019 capable of using 48 processor cores and 256GB of RAM. Search functionality has also been given a makeover, powered by Bing to provide faster, more accurate results.

 

Dual Storage read/write capabilities with SSD technology will also enable faster-than-ever data caching to improve the user experience.These developments promise to ensure Exchange 2019 will allow increased numbers of users per server.

 

Administrators have been granted new calendar features, with the ability to assign delegate permissions and manage events on user accounts. There are also new restrictions on the forwarding of meeting requests.

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 Features : Expected to be Included

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The features explained here are the assumptions made by Exchange experts around the world. They assume that these updates could be there in upcoming version of the on-premises Exchange server. So, let us take a read out on them:

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• The MS Exchange 2019 version minimizes the requirement of operating system. Along with this, it also excludes all the files that are out of the mainstream support from Active directory.

• The deprecated features of Exchange 2016 get completely eliminated in the version 2019. This states that the RPC-over-HTTP end might get replaced by the MAPI http protocol. It is so because this protocol gets easily supported by all MS Outlook email clients, which exists in mainstream. In current scenario, there is no requirement of retaining RPC-over-HTTP. Talking from the server end, this means that “Outlook Anywhere” should be removed from configurable Client Access namespace.

• The development team squeezes more improvements in the performance of database engine. There was the improvement in the IOPS storage of Exchange 2016 and even in the searching performance. Exchange 2016 upgraded maximum hardware spec, which can be scaled as an individual server up. There is no doubt in stating the line that Microsoft gives its best in improving things as per administrators demand and need.

• MS Office 2013 might be out of the mainstream support in the RTM of MS Exchange Server 2019 version . Hopefully, Office 2019 is not going to be released before this Exchange version so, it might be possible that developers retain Outlook 2013 support.

• There should be no change in architecture of the server role. Here, all things are perfect and need no modifications to be done in any aspect.

• Microsoft Outlook on web gets updated to the current user experience as of the Exchange online.
  Chances are there that public folder scalability improves but, feature-wise they remain same for long.

• We expect that challenges of cross-premises in hybrid deployment continues improving, as always.
  After observing the Exchange 2013 and 2016 capability, we assume that migration will be more simple in this version as well.

Thing Not to be Included At All

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Experts say that they do not want features of cross-service O365 collaboration to be appended with on-premises clients. It will be good to think of an Office 365 groups to come in Exchange 2019 version but, it seems to be impossible. It is so because these groups rely only on the cloud services. Even if it became possible then, having the Groups on-premises and not having any benefit in development gives no reason of its presence. So, it is better to keep Groups on cloud for its beneficial use.

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