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Windows Server

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Windows Server

9 out of 10
June 04, 2021
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Windows Server is used in our Information Technology department and most of our applications hosted on it. Our databases are also deployed …
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Windows Server Review

9 out of 10
May 20, 2021
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The most basic feature in Windows Server is obviously the Active Directory. This is basically a central place where you create, update, …
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Windows Server Review

9 out of 10
May 19, 2021
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We leverage Windows Server as the primary backbone for most of of the applications that the University runs. This includes deployments in …
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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Centralised management. Active directory and group policies make this quite easy.
  • Low resource use. We are able to deploy an increasing number of applications on server core.
  • Bundled services. More and more functionality is Bundled and can be added and removed as roles.
  • Some of the management tools are still lacking when it comes to remotely managing server core.
  • Some of the more advanced management is nuanced and poorly documented. Anything slightly complex or out of the norm requires a lot of searching.
  • Tech support. It is difficult to access Microsoft for support directly, software assurance should make that easy.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It utilizes an intuitive, easy to use user interface.
  • It offers features far beyond even what we use it for.
  • It maintains continuity with the rest of our Windows environment.
  • Upgrading to new versions of Windows Server could be simpler.
  • Migrating features and services to a new Windows Server could be simpler.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Not able to use
  • User interface.
  • [In my experience,] not user friendly.
  • Actual support from Microsoft, as [I feel] they are terrible for customer support.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It is really good for running services such as DHCP, DNS, and Active Directory. In most environments, these are main services that run every day and are services that server administrators and other IT folks rely on in their everyday work.
  • It is good for pushing down policies to endpoints and offers a robust group policy management tool for getting this accomplished.
  • One thing that can be improved upon is making the overall OS of Windows Server more stable, meaning to avoid shutdowns or crashes, or the often need of rebooting the server to bring it to a "refresh" state.
  • It can also improve in the bootup time of when the Windows Server OS starts and is online. It seems like in many cases it can take a while for all services, etc. to be brought online and ready to use. This also affects when endpoints can connect to server resources.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Active Directory is critical
  • Integration with DHCP and DNS
  • Runs basically everything
  • Cost for virtualization is becoming ridiculous
  • Interface updates have reduced functionaility
  • Many functions pushed to powershell only - powershell is an amazing tool but old functions should still be available in GUI
August 19, 2021

Centralized Management

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Manage accounts
  • Share printers
  • Organize files
  • User friendly interfaces
  • GUI tools for common tasks currently relegated to Powershell
  • Licensing can be incredibly difficult
Michael Craven | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
  • Backup of workstations & itself - reliably, consistently, with Bare-Metal Restore and deduplication
  • File management and Security on a per file/folder/user basis is simple and fully done through an easy GUI
  • DNS, DHCP server functions are easy to configure using the built-in GUI
  • Windows Server 2019 has deprecated one of the best and most reliable feature of Server 2016 - workstation backups.
  • Windows Server 2019 works great with Azure for cloud functionality, but could use more options to work with out cloud providers.
Zakarieya Abderoef | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy to use due to its intuitive graphical user interface.
  • Very popular and makes integration easier.
  • Lots of software drivers available.
  • Has many functionalities such as Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, VPN, RDP, VDI server, etc.
  • Many patches and updates available. Maybe abit too much too often.
  • Cost effective and with budget.
  • Remote desktop feature simplifies remote access to this server.
  • It has a built in VPN and ssl certificate feature.
  • Event viewer is available for alerts, although it seems too cumbersome to go through the logs.
  • If you got too many Windows systems to manage, then SCCM is an option.
  • Microsoft needs to minimize the update frequency by making the product more secure. It can become very exhausting trying to keep updated if you don't have a dedicated support team. It can become challenging where the business is unable to allow downtime for reboots as part of the update process.
  • Prone to security and audit vulnerabilities.
  • The operating system needs more CPU and memory resources compared to other options such as Linux.
  • Understanding the licensing model can be abit confusing.
  • Comes with a standard firewall, but not the most secured one available. Would suggest using a more secured firewall as part of your antivirus software.
  • Due to the number of vulnerabilities and the operating system being a target for hackers, anti-virus software is a must.
June 04, 2021

Windows Server

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy to Use
  • User community is strong
  • Frequent Updates
  • Security updates are frequent
  • Hardware independent
  • Slow Processing
  • Slow Multitasking
  • Frequent crash of software
  • Resource intensive
  • High Graphics software's may frequent crash
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • File Sharing
  • Print management
  • Active Directory
  • DNS, DHCP
  • [I believe you should ] stay far away from Windows Server 2016. The update process is horrible on it.
  • Licensing is expensive and complicated. Multiple different types of licenses needed.
Irfan Ahmed | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Users management is very simple & quick with all required policies.
  • Windows Servers secures users data & privacy.
  • Reporting and bind monitoring is very easy.
  • Load management must be more efficient.
  • User AI for managing data especially in storage server duplication of data).
  • Logs & reports can be export/extract in an easy way( finding error/issues is not easy ).
  • Resolve hanging issues (suddenly hung & auto run after hanging during query).
Umair Ali Khan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Simple to setup
  • Not all services are required you can enable selected services
  • Any service can be enabled with a few clicks
  • Support for high availability with clustering
  • Wide user base
  • Highly scalable
  • Some services require restart which is difficult in production environment
  • Some windows updates breaks previously working services
  • Licensing cost
  • Security bugs
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ease of use GUI
  • Driver compatibility
  • Update Frequency
  • Logging could be a bit easier to navigate
  • Remote Application deployments are difficult to manage
  • Additional Cert functionality / .pem
Rob Battaglia | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • File Server
  • VPN Server
  • SQL Host Server
  • DNS Server
  • DHCP Server could be better - we use the router for DHCP Routing
  • Print Server - not a fan of using the server as a print server since you have to license it. Direct access to printers via IP addresses is a much more efficient way to go
  • Better backup program - we utilize a third-party program that gives us more flexibility when restoring individual files.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy to use
  • GUI or CLI
  • Lots of available roles
  • High Up time
  • Typically reliable security patches
  • Windows 2016 in particular is slow at applying windows updates
  • Occasional release of updates that cause things to break
  • Sometimes confusing user interface where they have the classic vs modern interfaces
April 27, 2021

Windows Server Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Windows Server is a very stable platform.
  • Windows Server is extremely versatile and can be used for a variety of roles.
  • Windows Server is easy to administer and install.
  • Windows Server still has room to improve on security.
  • Windows Server has some elements in the UI that do not work properly.
  • Windows Server requires constant patching to remain secure.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Windows Server is very stable and reliable.
  • Windows Server has a wide range of functions that can be completed on the system.
  • Windows Server can handle our workloads.
  • It is not always easy to understand how to set up different services within Windows Server.
  • I would like to see Windows Server integrate with Microsoft Power Automate natively.
  • I would like to see less system resources being used by Windows Server.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy to manage
  • Wide Application Compatibility
  • Stable operating system environment
  • Flexible, suitable for a number of different roles
  • Security, always room for improvement there
  • UI driven platform makes doing things from the CLI difficult at times.
  • Patching process can turn into a nightmare with the way security updates are bundled and documented
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Manages user accounts.
  • Controls access to different areas of the network.
  • Has a robust GUI that Windows users are already familiar with.
  • Constant updates that move where things live within Windows can be frustrating.
  • It is the most widely used server platform, so it's the targeted system type for most hackers.
  • In the last few years, updates seem to cause more problems than they fix.
  • Server hardware requirements keep going up and up with each new version.
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