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Where is Hyper-V Server 2019?!
Well after waiting month and month for Hyper-V 2019 to be available again I've given up! Microsoft doesn't bother to update us on the situation and expects us to idly sit by and cross our fingers it will one day come out.
Once again Microsoft treat us like idiots, So after 6 months of waiting and no updates i took thhe leap and decided to spend the cash and purchase VMware ESXi and I have too say despite the cost this has been the best decision i've ever made! It's great to finally deal with a company that actually knows what they're doing and has a high regard to 2 things Microsoft has sadly forgotten about, that being 1.) Quality Control and 2.) Customer Service.
I couldn't be happier with my purchase and highly advise everyone out there to make the switch hif you can afford it, you will not be dissapointed. Also VMware don't use their own customers as guinea pigs to test their new software.
This is the current quality of expertise at Microsoft - I opened up a live chat to Microsoft the other day and enquired about Hyper-V 2019. The online technician advised me that he was not familiar with that product and as such Microsoft does not support it. I asked him "Who is the company that makes Hyper-V?" I gave him 4 minutes before i decided to tell him the answer was Microsoft. I thought to myself this is silly, so opened up another live chat and sadly that was the same response I reveived from Microsoft expert #2.
What a joke! Microsoft has gone downhill the last few years, its a joke and the faster a competing desktop operating system can come out the better.
What a joke!!!
Yeah, totally pathetic. We know the products better than their own people.
I just gave-up since 2019 has a bug to not allow Remote Desktopping in, and went back to Hyper-V 2016 Server. And Im happy for now.
MS is going the way of the Dodo! You hear me, Satya??!!
- Mary HoffmanJan 30, 2019Former Employee
About the time we were getting ready to re-release Windows Server 2019 after the October recall, a new issue was discovered affecting only the HYPER-V media which prevented us from re-releasing it along with the rest of the Windows Server 2019 media. We have a fix and are working on getting the media validated and published as quickly as we can. We recognize that this is a pain point for our customers and apologize for the delay.
- olydrhFeb 08, 2019Copper Contributor
Any update on an ETA for Hyper-V 2019 ISO? Any chance it is dropping very soon as I can't reach the Evalcenter site at all today?
Thanks.
Edit: Eval site is back up for me again.
- rspeakerFeb 09, 2019Brass Contributor
Back up.....but takes you in a circle when you try to go to download the ISO! Cmon man, don't get all our hopes up when the ISO is STILL not bloody posted!
See this! --->>> "Your evaluation may be accessed here:http://aka.ms/WSRelaunchBlogTHEN!!"Updated on January 17, 2019: The Windows Server 2019 evaluation media is now available at the https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-2019-essentials."Really sick of this **bleep** merry-go-round! Who's with me??!!
- rspeakerFeb 02, 2019Brass Contributor
Mary Hoffman ok as long as the issue with Remote Desktop has been addressed (Because there is no point to even administer it if I cant do it remotely) then I want to give it another look. Meanwhile I have already setup my Hyper-V 2016 server and that was a pain in the A so I don't relish having to do all over again with 2019. Im running an Intel NUC as the host, and had to hack the NIC driver to make it work on server 2016, and all setup through PowerShell so not a picnic! ;)
- VINICIUS SANTOSFeb 01, 2019Copper Contributor
Do you have any release date for this?
Does this new version include bugs discovered with remote access?
What about fixing the problem with Docker and Hyper V?
https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Virtualization-Documentation/issues/945
I am available to receive test versions of this image and give you feedback if you find it interesting.- Jim WooldridgeFeb 01, 2019
Microsoft
We are in the process of validating a fix associated with the Hyper-V Server media. We don't have a release date at this point, but we are actively working to get this validated and released. Hyper-V Server 2019 does not include support for containers (nor did Hyper-V Server 2016).