Microsoft on Monday released Exchange 2019, bigger version of its venerable email server. Nevertheless Windows Server 2019 still in software purgatory, customers were not able deploy and in many cases test the on-premises, perpetual-license software.

"We're ready to announce the total build of Exchange Server 2019 is already available and could be downloaded out of the Volume Licensing Service Center," Microsoft announced inside a blog post.

Exchange 2019 was one in every of four Office-related server items went final on Oct. 22, completing the roll-out for the next-generation editions of Microsoft's one-time-payment Office software. An additional titles that debuted were Project Server 2019, Skype for Business Server 2019 and SharePoint Server 2019. Plus Office 2019, they comprise when the to the largely-Azure-based Office 365 subscriptions towards the enterprise.

Though an Exchange 2019 public preview will be available since July and Microsoft said the finished software could be downloaded, it's not necessary to to immediately install it to a physical or virtual server.

"We're aware all media for Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server, version 1809 has become temporarily removed," Microsoft said where same post. "Microsoft will provide an update when refreshed media exists. Exchange Server 2019 are fully work with version 1809, and the refreshed version."

Exchange 2019 requires Windows Server 2019. The other three Office-related servers may installed on Windows Server 2016 plus Windows Server 2019 whenever the latter exists.

Microsoft rolled out Windows Server 2019 and Windows 10 version 1809 on Oct. 2, but days later pulled them from public distribution because of bug that deleted user files in a few default folders, such as the all-important Document folder. The seller blocked access into the software - in the case of Windows Server 2019, Microsoft removed it from the Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) and Azure Marketplace - and warned customers who had downloaded except for installed it to ditch the disk image.

The snafu was an interesting example of the ties that bind Microsoft's the gw990 and Office products. While Microsoft typically trumpets the mixing between the two in addition to their semi-synchronized release schedules, the disappearance of Windows Server 2019 - and then the Exchange 2019 fallout - was perhaps not an aspect for this alliance your company anticipated.