Catrinescu Vlad - Deploying SharePoint 2019 installing, configuring, and optimizing for on-premises and hybrid scenarios

About the Authors

Vlad Catrinescu

is a SharePoint and Office 365 consultant specializing in PowerShell, SharePoint, and hybrid scenarios. As an author, MVP, Microsoft Certified Trainer, and recognized international speaker, Vlad has helped hundreds of thousands of users and IT pros across the globe to get the most out of their SharePoint and Office 365 deployments. Vlad writes the popular Absolute SharePoint Blog and is a recipient of the Top 25 Office 365 Influencers award. His contributions can also be found on other sites such as CMSWire and ComputerWorld. Vlad is very active on social media, LinkedIn, and @VladCatrinescu.

Trevor Seward

is an IT professional with over 20 years of experience managing the Microsoft stack. He specializes in SharePoint Server, Office 365 services, and on-premises infrastructure such as Active Directory, IIS, and virtualization. Trevor has been awarded the Office Apps and Services MVP award multiple times and has worked closely with the SharePoint product group on SharePoint Server pre-release programs. He blogs at https://thesharepointfarm.com and is active on Twitter @NaupliusTrevor.

About the Technical Reviewer

Thomas Vochten

is a Microsoft MVP and Office 365 solution architect. He focusses on platform architecture, planning, deployment, availability, and operations whether on-premises or in the cloud. Thomas is a very active public speaker who travels the world to talk about implementing SharePoint and Office 365 and to prevent people from making the same expensive mistakes he did. He has a deep affection for SQL Server, teaches the occasional classroom full of IT professionals, and is getting around deploying hybrid SharePoint environments. Thomas works for Xylos, a consultancy company based in Belgium.

In this chapter, we will introduce SharePoint 2019, a bit of history about where is SharePoint coming from, and Microsofts goals for the 2019 version. We will also have a high-level overview of the new features in SharePoint 2019 as well as a few features that are deprecated, or no longer available.

SharePoint 2019 is the seventh version of SharePoint Server that Microsoft shipped to the public. First introduced in 2001, SharePoint Portal Server (the name back then) was nowhere as popular as it is now. It took a few versions, but starting with Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS), SharePoint went from a CD Microsoft gave away, including 25 user licenses, to one of Microsofts most lucrative products. After innovating SharePoint with every release ever since, there are now over 250,000 organizations, including 85% of the Fortune 500.

While for the past few years, Microsofts primary focus has been to innovate SharePoint Online, part of Office 365, there are still many customers that use SharePoint Server for their collaboration needs, and Microsoft hasnt forgotten them. Microsoft still brings new features to the cloud first, and sometimes to the cloud only, and with every On-Premises release since SharePoint 2016, most features are packaged into a version of SharePoint On-Premises.

SharePoint Server 2016 is the first version of SharePoint Server that was born in the cloud, and it has brought down many improvements to on-premises that were created and tested in the cloud. Some of those features include the MinRole topology, Zero Downtime Patching, common binaries and updates with Project Server and more. SharePoint 2016 brought many performance and stability improvements to on-premises, but a lot of business users were not impressed with the little number of new features aimed at business users.