{"id":10621,"date":"2018-09-05T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudblogs.microsoft.com\/windowsserver\/?p=10621"},"modified":"2024-03-07T15:49:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T23:49:15","slug":"windows-server-2019-essentials-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/windows-server-2019-essentials-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Server 2019 Essentials update"},"content":{"rendered":"

This blog post was co-authored by Irina Pivovarova, Senior Program Manager\u00a0and Vinicius Apolinario, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Windows Server.<\/em><\/p>\n

For more than a decade the Windows Server team has been releasing Windows Server editions tailored to meet the needs of small business environments. Windows Server 2016 Essentials is the current in-market edition of Windows Server made for small business and is available for companies with up to 25 users.<\/p>\n

As we started working on next version, Windows Server 2019, we looked closely on the impact of recent technology trends on small business customers. We observed that cloud computing, in addition to affecting how large enterprises think about their datacenters, is also impacting how small companies are planning their IT services. For example, we have Microsoft 365 Business<\/a> that is easier to acquire, integrate with other cloud services, and is particularly effective in environments that do not have full-time IT staff. Especially, capabilities that small businesses need, like file sharing and collaboration are best achieved with a cloud service like Microsoft 365.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, we recently collaborated with the MVP community and other influencers to listen and get a deeper understanding of the transition that our small business customers are going through. While our small business customers are embracing cloud services where they can, on-premises servers are still valuable and desired in the short term for reasons such as price and ability to run traditional applications that may not yet have corresponding cloud-based functionality.<\/p>\n

All of this led to our decision to offer yet another version of on-premises server for small businesses – Windows Server 2019 Essentials. This edition will be released along with the other editions of Windows Server 2019 later this year. There is a strong possibility that this could be the last edition of Windows Server Essentials.<\/p>\n

Windows Server 2019 Essentials will have the same characteristics as the 2016 version that small business look for:<\/p>\n