Windows 10: Windows Server 2019 is now Generally Available for SAP

Brink · Mar 31, 2019

Windows 2019 has been released by Microsoft and is now Generally Available for SAP NetWeaver 7.0 or higher components.

Release information can be found in 2751450 - SAP Systems on Windows Server 2019 https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2751450

Most common SAP applications are now Generally Available on Windows 2019.

Windows Operating System support is generally dependent on the SAP Kernel for ABAP system or JVM for Java Systems; SAP Support Packs usually do not need to be applied. Most SAP applications that support ABAP Kernel 7.22 or 7.53 (or higher) or JVM 6 (or higher).

The SAP Product Availability Matrix contains the required release and support information. As of March 2019 not all DBMS are certified on Windows 2019. SQL Server 2012 (or higher), Hana 2.0 client libraries and LiveCache are supported. DB2 LUW, Sybase and Oracle databases will be certified in due course

Check the SAP Product Availability Matrix for the supported SAP Application and Database combinations. https://support.sap.com/pam

Always use the most recent SWPM to install or copy SAP applications https://support.sap.com/en/tools/sof...ics-tools.html

1. Windows 2019 is Fully GA on Azure

Windows 2019 includes many features deeply integrated into the Azure public cloud platform. SAP on Windows 2019 is simultaneously released for on-premises deployments and on Azure cloud deployments. The full list of Operating Systems and VM types supported on Azure is documented in SAP Note 1928533 - SAP Applications on Azure: Supported Products and Azure VM types https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/1928533

2. Azure Site Recovery Support

Azure Site Recovery fully supports Windows 2019 for the Azure-to-Azure scenario. Customers can protect SAP Applications server VMs using Azure Site Recovery
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azu...support-matrix
Documentation for Protecting SAP workloads with Azure Site Recovery https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azu...e-recovery-sap

3. Hyper-V 2019 Support

Windows Server Hyper-V 2019 is already Generally Available and supported. A Hyper-V 2019 host can contain Windows 2019, Windows 2016, Windows 2012 or Windows 2008 (R2) guests. Review SAP Note
1409608 - Virtualization on Windows. https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/1409608

4. What’s New in Windows 2019 for SAP

Windows 2019 provides several new features and multiple enhanced and improved features for SAP Customers. A summary of new features can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...9/whats-new-19

Windows Admin Center https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...understand/faq
https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/windowsserver/2018/04/12/announcing-windows-admin-center-our-reimag...

Windows Clustering includes a new feature useful for SAP customers called Azure-aware clusters. Windows 2019 cluster can receive and respond to Azure planned maintenance notifications. Windows cluster will failover services before planned maintenance events occur
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/clustering/2017/02/14/deploying-an-iaas-vm-guest-clusters-in-micros...
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...ver-clustering

Windows 2019 and Windows 2016 support in-place OS upgrades of an ASCS Cluster. The minimum source release for the cluster is Windows 2012. The following note also applies to Windows 2019 2419847 - Support of Windows in-place upgrade in Failover Cluster environments https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2419847

5. Windows 2008 (R2) is End of Life – Plan Migration

Customers running on Windows 2008 or Windows 2008 R2 should immediately start planning to upgrade to Windows 2019. Customers running on old Java Applications (such as Enterprise Portal 7.0x) version 4 or 5 JVMs (not supported on modern OS versions) should start reviewing the different upgrade paths available.

2749767 - Support of SAP Products on Windows Server 2008 (R2) after January 2020 https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/0002749767
1494740 - SAP System Migration from Older Windows Releases to Newer Ones https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/1494740
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...0server%202008

Additional Links & Notes

2749767 - Support of SAP Products on Windows Server 2008 (R2) after January 2020 https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/0002749767
2734697 - Windows Support for SAP Kernel 7.73 https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/0002734697
2770441 - HANA client installation fails with: Cannot determine system32 path - Cannot find system directory inside windows registry https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/0002770441
Microsoft Product Lifecycle Support tool https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...0server%202008
SAP’s Windows Blog https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/displa...indows+Servers
https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/displa...SAP+on+Windows
https://blogs.sap.com/2019/03/15/sap...s-server-2019/
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Source: Windows 2019 is now Generally Available for SAP - Microsoft Tech Community - 389745

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Brink · Mar 31, 2019

Remote Desktop Services 2019 generally available Windows Server 2019

We released the newest version of Remote Desktop Services (RDS), RDS 2019, on October 2, 2018. RDS 2019 builds on the strong foundation of RDS 2016, letting you rapidly deploy on-premises or in the cloud. RDS 2019 is generally available with Windows Server 2019.

RDS 2019 will give customers the opportunity to leverage fantastic enhancements that make it the optimal version of RDS, to date, with several areas of innovation to improve the administrative and client experiences.

We brought innovation centered around three areas in RDS 2019 – Simplify IT management, User experience, and Improved security.

Simplify IT management

We have time and again heard from customers that license management should focus on simplification to scale deployments. Over the past few years, we have focused on improving management of Remote Desktop (RD) Licensing servers and entitlement through Active Directory (AD).

Now, you will be able to leverage high availability RD Licensing servers with forward-compatibility for future versions of Windows Server to enable easier management of licenses from a variety of RDS releases.

We have also made it easier to manage licenses for your employees by bringing the ability for the RD Licensing servers to update RDS user Client Access Licenses (CALs) into AD objects without accessing AD directly.

Lastly, we added perfmon (Performance Counters) APIs to provide partners an easy way to access data to build monitoring dashboards and deliver a consistent user experience.

User experience

We have also invested in providing an enhanced user experience where end users will be able to leverage desktops and apps through RDS 2019 to maximize productivity.

To start, we have added modern notifications for RemoteApp in the Action Center to improve productivity with applications like Microsoft Outlook.

We have improved upon innovations in Discrete Device Assignment in RDS 2016 to bring better security, virtual machine (VM) isolation, and performance for your graphic-intensive workloads. These improvements in GPU virtualization technologies will result in reduced network traffic and smooth video playback.

In addition to the GPU virtualization technology, we added high-level redirection of built-in or attached video cameras to deliver optimized video stream at higher frame rates in new and legacy remote applications and desktops. Users can now have a better experience with video-intensive interactions.

Lastly, we have reduced CPU usage on the client and server and bandwidth with better image quality to bring a faster end-to-end web client experience.

Security

One of our primary goals as the Remote Desktop Services product team is to help improve your security posture for your desktop and app virtualization environments. We have improved security through several enhancements.

With Windows Admin Center integration, it is easy to consolidate all local and remote server management into a single pane.

We have brought several Windows Defender optimizations for multi-session to give you more confidence in bringing a secure, scalable and cost-effective desktop experience to end users.

We also added web client support for Single Sign-on (SSO) to deliver a streamlined authentication experience for users connecting via the web client.

A few additional features include easy-to-configure DTLS-based encryption, all of which, work toward providing a trusted end-to-end RDS deployment.

Deploying RDS 2019 on Azure

We recognize that giving you the ability and making it easier to deploy RDS on Azure gives you a lot of flexibility, scalability, security and several other advantages of Azure. To improve flexibility and ease of cloud adoption, we also support hybrid deployments where the infrastructure roles can be in Azure while the host Virtual Machines (VMs) can be on-premises.

Key enhancements for deploying RDS 2019 on Azure include using Azure Key Vault for simplified certificate management and using Azure SQL DB for the RD licensing high-availability feature.

Lastly, later in October we will announce the availability of Remote Desktop Services (RDS) subscriptions through the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program. The availability of RDS in CSP addresses customer needs for additional cost-effective solutions that support desktop and app virtualization.

With RDS Subscriptions, partners can directly sell RDS subscriptions through our CSP program, eliminating the extra step of customers and partners acquiring different licenses through various programs. With this model, customers can enjoy a faster licensing cycle due to CSP integration with other Microsoft licenses including Windows Server, SQL Server, and Office to make it easy for partners to simplify the buying process.

For more technical information on RDS 2019, please refer to the RDS documentation page.
Download Windows Server 2019 that includes RDS 2019 now.

Frequently asked questions

Q: When will I be able to download the final version of Windows Server 2019?
A: Windows Server 2019 that includes RDS 2019 became generally available on October 2, 2018. It is available for evaluation and download through Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC).

Q: Is Remote Desktop Server included in Windows Server 2019?
A: Yes. Remote Desktop Server 2019 will be a server role in Windows Server 2019.

Q: How do we view this announcement with Windows Virtual Desktop announcement at Ignite?
A: This is the most up-to-date version of RDS to enable running the latest on-premises multi-session virtualization available with Windows Server. Windows Virtual Desktop is a desktop and application virtualization service on Azure. Read the blog post Microsoft 365 adds modern desktop on Azure for more information.

Q: How is RDS on Azure different from Windows Virtual Desktop?
A: RDS is the ideal on-premises desktop and application virtualization solution, with a Windows Server operating system to provide a multi-session desktop experience. When deployed on Azure, you can scale your deployment and manage RD infrastructure roles in your own subscription. Windows Virtual Desktop enables customers to deliver a brand-new multi-session capability with a full Windows 10 experience, with the scale and flexibility of Azure. With this new service, Microsoft manages the infrastructure roles. Windows Virtual Desktop will be available for public preview later this calendar year. For more information, please visit the product page.

Q: Will there be a path to go from RDS to Windows Virtual Desktop?
A: Yes, we are developing Azure documentation guidance for this migration path as Windows Virtual Desktop gets closer to public preview later in calendar year 2018.
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Source: Remote Desktop Services 2019 generally available with Windows Server 2019 - Windows Server Blog

Brink · Mar 31, 2019

Windows Server 2019 now generally available

It’s hard to believe Ignite 2018 is now behind us. Last week at Ignite, we announced Windows Server 2019 and talked about the new hybrid, security, application platform, and hyper-converged infrastructure capabilities. Today, we are making it available for download.

If you are a Windows Server customer with valid Software Assurance, you can download Windows Server 2019 on the Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC). You can also download the evaluation version of Windows Server 2019 at the Evaluation Center.

For customers running Windows Server on Azure, Windows Server 2019 is also available in the Azure Marketplace. Later in October, we’ll be adding Windows Server 2019 to Visual Studio Subscription (former MSDN) and other portals, such as the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN).

Learn more about Windows Server 2019

With the release of a new version of Windows Server, it’s time to learn about what’s new and try it out. At Ignite, we had tons of sessions and those are available for you on demand. If you want to go deeper on the details, you can find the updated documentation in the Windows Server technical content library.

If you are upgrading from an older version, you can check the new Upgrade Center, where you can find useful information on the upgrade process, as well as pre and post activities.

For those of you already looking ahead, join the Insiders program. We will continue to ship new builds of Windows Server that will first land on the next Semi-Annual Channel and later in the next Long-Term Servicing Channel.

We can’t wait to see what you’ll do with Windows Server 2019! Download it today!
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Source: Windows Server 2019 - now generally available! - Windows Server Blog

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Ahhzz · Mar 31, 2019

Office 2019

Only supported on Win10. Sorry, 8.1 users, only 4 years old, gotta go.

Microsoft Office 2019 will only work on Windows 10

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com...-to-office-and-windows-servicing-and-support/

Spoiler Office 2019
Last year at Ignite, we announced Office 2019 – the next perpetual version of Office that includes apps (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, and Skype for Business) and servers (including Exchange, SharePoint, and Skype for Business). Today we’re pleased to share the following updates:

Office 2019 will ship in H2 of 2018. Previews of the new apps and servers will start shipping in the second quarter of 2018.

Office 2019 apps will be supported on:

Any supported Windows 10 SAC release

Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2018

The next LTSC release of Windows Server

The Office 2019 client apps will be released with Click-to-Run installation technology only. We will not provide MSI as a deployment methodology for Office 2019 clients. We will continue to provide MSI for Office Server products.

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