• @[email protected]
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    8614 days ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      6114 days ago

      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…

      • /home/pineapplelover
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        314 days ago

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

          • /home/pineapplelover
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            212 days 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.

          • KryptonBlur
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            211 days ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          18 days 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]
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      1013 days 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]
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      513 days 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.