Hobo comments on Sysadmin shock as Windows Server 2025 installs itself

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[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 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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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 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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[–] ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is powershell "legacy"?

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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years 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.

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[–] KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago

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

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[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years 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.

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