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Sysadmin shock as Windows Server 2025 installs itself (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 87 points 2 years ago (9 children)

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

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  • [–] 62 points 2 years ago (6 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...

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Is powershell "legacy"?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years 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.

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