Wherever the environment may move, the application will always be satisfied because it is bundled up with everything it needs to run.įailover Clustering – A failover cluster is a group of independent computers that work together to increase the availability and scalability of clustered roles (formerly called clustered applications and services). Everything the application depends on to run successfully also lives inside this container.

For the application in its container, it has no knowledge of any other applications or processes that exist outside of its environment. If we break down the differences we have the following…Ĭontainers – Containers are a way to wrap up an application into its own isolated environment. Host Guardian Service – Uses attestation to ensure that only known, valid hosts can start shielded VMs, and key protection to securely release the keys for shielded VMs.Īs we switch from the included roles to included features, we see a few more differences. If we note the two items that aren’t listed for Essentials we have…ĭevice Health Attestation – Introduced with Windows Server 2016, you can now run the DHA service as a server role within your organization which allows the raising of the security bar to hardware monitored and attested security, with minimal or no impact on operation cost.

Starting with Essentials, we can see the server roles as highlighted below.

Previously Essentials provided more of a guided setup experience, but as was mentioned in the announcement, this has switched to be more like Windows Server 2019 Standard. Windows Server Essentials instead doesn’t launch Server Manager automatically, but when you do it pops up the same message. This post will focus on some of the differences between Windows Server 2019 Essentials and Windows Server 2019 Standard for those who are deciding on which is going to be more appropriate for their environment, and is a follow up to a previous post which covered the differences between the Standard and Datacenter editions.Īfter installing one of the immediate differences that is highlighted post setup is that Standard will take you to Server Manager, but with the addition of an extra popup suggesting to try Windows Admin Center, which is the focus area for Windows Server administration moving forward.

Back in September over on the Windows Server Blog there were some major changes announced for Windows Server Essentials.

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