This blog post was authored by Vinicius Apolinario, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Windows Server.

It’s hard to believe Ignite 2018 is now behind us. Last week at Ignite, we announced Windows Server 2019 and talked about the new hybrid, security, application platform, and hyper-converged infrastructure capabilities. Today, we are making it available for download.

If you are a Windows Server customer with valid Software Assurance, you can download Windows Server 2019 on the Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) . You can also download the evaluation version of Windows Server 2019 at the Evaluation Center .

For customers running Windows Server on Azure, Windows Server 2019 is also available in the Azure Marketplace . Later in October, we’ll be adding Windows Server 2019 to Visual Studio Subscription (former MSDN) and other portals, such as the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) .

Learn more about Windows Server 2019

With the release of a new version of Windows Server, it’s time to learn about what’s new and try it out. At Ignite, we had tons of sessions and those are available for you on demand . If you want to go deeper on the details, you can find the updated documentation in the Windows Server technical content library .

If you are upgrading from an older version, you can check the new Upgrade Center , where you can find useful information on the upgrade process, as well as pre and post activities.

For those of you already looking ahead, join the Insiders program . We will continue to ship new builds of Windows Server that will first land on the next Semi-Annual Channel and later in the next Long-Term Servicing Channel.

We can’t wait to see what you’ll do with Windows Server 2019! Download it today!

Tried to download from the VLSC and the download ISO is 1k in size. Anyone managed to get the full download done?
Tried multiple browsers but the VLSC freaks out and asks me for my agreement number, once I put that in I never get any further as the screen keeps on refreshing before I can select a company name.

where can I find the Windows Server 2019 Automatic Virtual Machine Activation (AVMA) keys?
Greetings
Michael

where can I find the AVMA keys for Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Automatic Virtual Machine Activation.
Greetings
Michael

AVMA Keys

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-R2-and-2012/dn303421(v=ws.11)#avma-keys

Thx to Dave Patrick (MVP)

Hi, that’s great! But what about docker image of server core at Docker Hub?
I’m ready to test my apps on it! =)
Greetings

Can Storage Spaces Direct be used with servers located across WAN link with dark fiber connectivity between the sites?
Looking for an Active-Active storage solution where each node lives in a different datacenter.

I’m a VL / Visual Studio Enterprise customer, can’t get access to any 2019 content.
Nothing on MSDN for 2019 currently and the VL site asks me to go through 2FA then throws up:

We are unable to complete your action
Error code:1000
What you can try:

Go back to the previous page and try again.
Go to the VLSC Home page and try logging out and then logging in again.
If you continue to encounter the same problem, go to the Help page for further suggestions.

Can’t access the homepage or the help page, this error message just persists.
Happens in Chrome or Edge. Impressive stuff as always.

Apparently there is no option to raise the domain and forest functional levels to 2019 after all domain controllers are on Windows Server 2019.
Is this correct ? If so where is this documented ? and should we expect to see a 2019 functional level ?