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Sysadmin shock as Windows Server 2025 installs itself (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm truly, totally, completely shocked ... that Windows is still being used on the server side.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A bunch of enterprise services are Windows only. Also Active Directory is by far the best and easiest way to manage users and computers in an org filled with a bunch of end users on Windows desktops. Not to mention the metric shitload of legacy internal asp applications...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah at work we do a lot of internal microsoft asp stuff, poweshell, AD, ms access, all that old legacy ms stuff

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is powershell "legacy"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I guess not actually but the amount of weird bugs I got from running a working script makes me think there's something wrong with the way we have ours set up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Windows Powershell sort of is legacy, but Powershell 7 definitely isn't

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Linux does AD. Don’t let that stop you from switching.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

No not really. It does the various services for the most part, but Active Directory is exclusively a Microsoft product. Group Policy in particular also does not have a drop in replacement that's any sort of sane.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

We run a lot of Windows servers for specialized applications that don't really have viable alternatives. It sucks, but it's the same reason we use Windows clients.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Basically AD and the workstation management that uses it. Could all be run on a VM and snapshotted because you know it's going to fuck up an update eventually. Perhaps SQL Server but that's getting harder to justify the expense of anymore.