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Mastering Windows Server 2019, Third Edition

You're reading from   Mastering Windows Server 2019, Third Edition The complete guide for system administrators to install, manage, and deploy new capabilities with Windows Server 2019

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801078313
Length 690 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Jordan Krause Jordan Krause
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Windows Server 2019 2. Installing and Managing Windows Server 2019 FREE CHAPTER 3. Active Directory 4. DNS and DHCP 5. Group Policy 6. Certificates in Windows Server 2019 7. Networking with Windows Server 2019 8. Remote Access 9. Hardening and Security 10. Server Core 11. PowerShell 12. Redundancy in Windows Server 2019 13. Containers and Nano Server 14. Hyper-V 15. Troubleshooting Windows Server 2019 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index
Appendix: Answers to the end-of-chapter Questions

Clustering improvements in Windows Server 2019

The clustering feature has been around for a while but is continually being improved. There have been some big changes and additions to failover clustering in the two latest LTSC releases, Server 2016 and Server 2019. Some of the changes that we will discuss were originally introduced in 2016, so they are not brand new, but are still relevant to the way that we handle clusters in Server 2019 so they are worth mentioning here.

True two-node clusters with USB witnesses

When configuring quorum for a failover cluster, prior to Server 2019, a two-node cluster required three servers, because the witness for quorum needed to reside on a witness share of some kind, usually a separate file server.

Starting in 2019, that witness can now be a simple USB drive, and it doesn't even have to be plugged into a Windows Server! There are many pieces of networking equipment (switches, routers, and so on) that can accept USB-based file storage...

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