On the Detect and Respond front, in Windows Server 2019, we are embedding Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) that provides preventative protection, detects attacks and zero-day exploits among other capabilities, into the operating system. This gives customers access to deep kernel and memory sensors, improving performance and anti-tampering, and enabling response actions on server machines.
Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI): HCI is one of the latest trends in the server industry today. According to IDC, the HCI market grew 64% in 2016 and Gartner says it will be a $5 billion market by 2019. This trend is primarily because customers understand the value of using x86 servers with high performant local disks to run their compute and storage needs at the same time. In addition, HCI gives the flexibility to easily scale such deployments.
Sad to see that the minimal server interface is still MIA, There are so many workloads that are not compatible with server core SQL Reporting services for example and requiring us to have desktop experience installed is not an acceptable solution from a security perspective.
Provides Windows Server auditing reports on the current configuration of your servers and enables you to easily compare that configuration to a known good baseline, so you can spot and remediate security gaps.
To safeguard your environment, it is critical to know every nook and cranny of your Windows servers. What DNS records were updated recently? Who changed access permissions to your files shares? Is your server configuration in line with your security policy? What software was installed while you were away? Netwrix Auditor gives you detailed answers.
Use Netwrix Auditor to perform systematic Windows Server auditing and quickly note any deviations from your known good server configuration baseline, such as outdated antivirus or harmful software. Remediate IT risks in accordance with server management best practices.
Any changes to file share permissions or the Local Administrators group can threaten data security on a Windows server. Investigating incidents using Windows audit logs is difficult or even impossible, as you have to navigate endless pages of native audit logs and struggle to make sense of cryptic events in machine-readable format. Netwrix Auditor enables you to quickly analyze potential privilege abuse incidents and bring rogue insiders into the light.
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) Windows server management tool provides built-in capacity forecast charts and metrics to easily identify when server resources will reach warning and critical thresholds.
By staying on top of systems and device health by using application and Windows server performance monitoring software, administrators can better track health metrics for each device within the infrastructure. This can allow them to minimize network downtime and better maintain the proper levels of service required for daily operations.
Windows server monitoring revolves around the regular collection and analysis of performance data and event log files to help ensure all services and devices are operating efficiency. The metrics and log data Windows server tools capture can include key performance indicators (KPIs), such as the availability of applications and network connectivity, and CPU and memory usage.
Windows server performance monitoring tools can also collect information about other metrics, such as data from log files and event logs, which can be used to detect anomalous behavior. By proactively analyzing these metrics through a Windows server monitoring software application, administrators can gain a better sense of the health of their infrastructure, which in turn can lead to being able to predict potential performance problems before they become full-blown issues.
By preventing loss of service or network downtime, IT departments are keeping the technological infrastructure healthy. Windows monitoring server tools can allow users to maintain optimal network availability, efficiency, and performance through the quick detection and prevention of errors and anomalies that could lead to downtime or system failure.
Windows monitoring tools collect data from agents installed on various devices across the network, including servers. Agents are lightweight pieces of software that collect information about the performance metrics of the server and send them back for analysis to the central server running the monitoring application.
Once the monitoring metrics are centralized, a Windows server status monitor should be able to present relevant information to admins in different formats. This may include a dashboard with visibility into the performance of a Windows environment through charts, graphs, or more advanced analytics tools. The tool may also include mapping capabilities offering a visual overview of server and application relationships.
SAM includes more than 1200 built-in monitoring templates for monitoring Windows systems, applications, and plugins. SAM also features out-of-the-box report templates built to provide straightforward visibility into Windows server status, which can help demonstrate compliance with regulatory and data security standards.
SAM also includes a capacity prediction tool designed to allow users to more accurately plan for server capacity and optimize their current infrastructure with the ability to test hypothetical network configurations.
The OpenSSH client and server are now available as a supported Feature-on-Demand in Windows Server 2019 and Windows 10 1809! The Win32 port of OpenSSH was first included in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and Windows Server 1709 as a pre-release feature. In the Windows 10 1803 release, OpenSSH was released as a supported feature on-demand component, but there was not a supported release on Windows Server until now.
OpenSSH is a collection of client/server utilities that enable secure remote login, remote file transfer, and public/private key pair management. OpenSSH is a powerful tool that originated as part of the OpenBSD project and has been used for many years across the BSD, Linux, macOS, and Unix ecosystems. Adding OpenSSH to Windows Server 2019 allows organizations that work across a broad range of operating systems to use a consistent set of tools for remote server administration.
One thing I'm not sure about is the Enclosures section of Failover Cluster Manager. While I am using WAC to manage the servers as much as I can, this particular section doesn't seem to have an analogue in WAC. I've seen in other examples that Enclosures will show the connected SANs and other storage units in the cluster, including what looks like the servers themselves. However, I'm seeing nothing under Enclosures in FCM. Is this normal? Should I be seeing both MX630 V3 servers under Enclosures, as they are each a storage enclosure in addition to being cluster nodes?
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