Exchange Server 2019 Now In Public Preview
If You Run Exchange Server On-Premise You Can Now Evaluate Exchange Server 2019 As Of July 2018.
Exchange Server 2019 brings updated security, performance, and improved administration and management capabilities. These are the attributes our Microsoft’s largest on-premises customers told them they need from Exchange. Exchange Server 2019 also includes features end-users will love too.
Here are some of the key features in each of these areas:
Security: Microsoft included support for installing Exchange Server 2019 onto Windows Server Core. Exchange Server 2019 installed on Windows Server 2019 Core provides the most secure platform for Exchange. You also have the option of installing the Exchange 2019 Preview onto Windows Server 2016 Core or Windows Server 2016/2019 with Desktop Experience, but we have worked hard to make sure running Exchange on Windows Server Core 2019 is the best choice for Exchange 2019.
Performance: Microsoft has done extensive work to allow Exchange Server to take advantage of the larger core and memory packed systems our customers have deployed these days. You can be very successful running Exchange Server with up to 48 processor cores and 256GB of RAM.
Microsoft re-engineered search using Bing technology to make it even faster and provide better results, and in doing so have made database failovers much faster, and administration easier. The search indexes are now within the database itself. There are no more separate log files to manage. As the index data is now within the database, normal log shipping includes the database and search data in a single replication and the index is always up to date on all database copies.
End user experience: One of the most important capabilities in Exchange is calendaring. All large enterprises are heavy calendar users and those organizations rely on calendars to help people get their work done. We’re bringing a few key features such as Do Not Forward and Simplified Calendar Sharing from Office 365 to On-Premises Exchange. We’re sure a lot of end users will be very happy with those features. Administrators get some new calendaring features too, as we’re adding the ability for admins to manage events on user’s calendars and to assign delegate permissions more easily.
One thing to note is that Unified Messaging role will not be available in Exchange Server 2019. Customers who currently connect either a 3rd party PBX or Skype for Business Server to Exchange Server won’t be able to do so with Exchange Server 2019 mailboxes. Those customers considering an upgrade to Exchange Server 2019 should consider migrating to Skype for Business Server 2019 and using Cloud Voicemail, or migrating to Office 365 with Cloud Voicemail. More information on this change will be available prior to launch.
That’s a brief roundup of many of the changes Microsoft has baked into Exchange Server 2019.
You can download the Exchange 2019 preview here.
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