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September 24, 2021
Microsoft Server 2022 Review
Score 1 out of 10
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Verified User
- File support
- Remote access
- Whole organization
- Support from Microsoft
- 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.
- File control
- Remote access
- [In my experience,] wasted time & money.
5
Office management
1
IT
- File control
- Remote access
- Organization
- 0
- File organization
- Remote access
Yes
Standard file transfer
- Product Features
- Product Usability
Was wrong in my assumption and from the description of the product.
I would not purchase.
- Implemented in-house
No
- Installation
- Interface
- Support
No, I already spent $650 for the Server 2022 program and needed help switching from COR to GUI.
No
No.
- [In my experience,] none.
- Core
No
July 08, 2021
Windows Server - It's as simple as that!! Reliable, Full-Featured, Secure, Easy to administer.
We are using Windows Server at our business for multiple uses. First, it is being used as a File Server - allowing us to have a large repository of data without upgrading individual workstations. Second, we are using Windows Server 2016 do to it's ability to perform workstation backups - reliably. The backup function supports Bare-Metal Restore (and has been put the test multiple times and works great!) and also supports deduplication - it only stores 1 copy of each duplicate file from All of our workstations (why take space to store Windows 10 files, etc. multiple times).
They have deprecated that function in Windows Server 2019.
They have deprecated that function in Windows Server 2019.
- 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.
- Security - including NOT having the entire Windows Server codebase open-source (like Linux)
- Backup (deprecated after Server 2016)
- GUI for administration of Everything. Virtually no need to use the command prompt at all - which is very archaic in my opinion in this day and age.
- Windows Server has made it very simple to maintain my client's central business needs do to Windows Servers simple setup, reliability, and easy administration.
- I have been able to setup client's businesses much quicker and easier than when using other Server options.
- With no real downtime, timely security updates and outstanding reliability, Windows Server has made my Computer Consulting business look really good!
- Backup
- File/Folder Security
- User accounts and permissions
- Administration of mixed environment workstations, i.e. Mac, Linux, etc.
No
We use Windows Server for our primary server operating system. It's primary used for our hypervisor as well as VM's. We use various Windows Server roles and functions such as AD, DNS, DHCP, file server, printing, web, and more. This allows us to have an easy to manage operating system that is centrally managed.
- Hypervisor
- Active Directory
- DHCP
- Ease of Deployment
- Security Updates
- Lengthy update times
- DoH DNS Forwarders
- More thorough update vetting
- Security
- Reliability
- Longevity / Long End of Support Cycle
- Hypervisor
- AD DS
- Ease of deploying new servers
- Easy management of Windows workstations
- Painless hypervisor cluster failover
We were comparing Windows Server with Hyper-V to VMware ESXi, and decided on Windows Server as we are primarily a Windows server/workstation shop, and the familiarity allowed us to spin up new Hyper-V servers quickly without much additional training required. We also have a Microsoft agreement and this allowed us to set up new hypervisors without needing to make additional purchasing of a different product.
750
Primarily users use Windows Server due to their workstations being bound to Active Directory, use Windows DNS and DHCP, and security policies through GPOs. The majority of our users also use it for Windows file sharing for network shares and home directories. We have a smaller subset of users that use Windows Remote Desktop Gateway for various accounting platforms.
1
I am the sole systems administrator for our organization. We have additional technicians who use their technical skills and knowledge of Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP to do occasional AD DS work like resetting passwords. For me, I have a thorough understanding of systems administration, multiple roles and features, and networking knowledge.
- Workstation Management
- DHCP
- DNS
- NPS
- File deduplication
- Powershell Commands
- Improved NPS Customization
- Remote Desktop Gateway for future applications
- VPN Server
No
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
Product features was the most important factor for us. We are a small IT department with a lot of devices and end users, and need a server OS platform that is robust, reliable, secure, and easy to manage. Windows Servers offers a platform for all of our server needs.
While we would look more closely at Linux OS's, I don't see ourselves seriously considering any other platform or vendor for our server operating systems other than a select few use cases. Windows Server has worked very well for us, and many of our evaluation criteria's were only matched by Windows Server.
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
I learned that a slow migration is better than trying to rush and get everything migrated all in one go. Many factors took significantly longer than anticipated, included the amount of time it takes to install the latest updates, how long it takes to install certain roles and features, and when something doesn't work it often led to us having to start from scratch.
- Long update process
- Long role and feature install time
- Inability to quickly revert after installing a role
- no training
Windows Server was relatively easy to learn and use without official training. Microsoft has a vast expanse of tech articles and guides, along with thousands of other websites and blogs documenting how processes are done. Using both these resources, I was able to learn and implement everything I needed to.
Review Microsoft's security and best practices guides and articles before configuring roles and features for Windows Server. Make sure you're reading up to date guides, as these change frequently.
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
No - we have not done any custom code
We have not done any additional customization or configuration.
We did not, as the price was too expensive for our historical needs for premium support. We can typically get our issues resolved using Microsoft knowledge base articles and Tech Net forum posts.
No
This has not happened for us.
- DHCP
- DNS
- Active Directory
- AD FS
- NPS
- DFS-R / DFS-N
- Group Policy
No
Score 1 out of 10
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Verified User
Windows server has turned into a dumpster fire of problems and miss configuration and security loopholes.
It’s like Microsoft hires people that can technically code but have zero ability to look at long-term impact of their decisions .
There’s so many problems with it constantly crashing or inability to handle massive amounts of data that it’s it’s just useless .
We got rid of windows server went over to a Linux server and an Oracle database and we haven’t had one crash in nine months.
Microsoft Windows NT was the last version of windows of any kind that was really stable I just can’t believe how buggy and leggy and just emotionally unstable the windows has become that it’s just unusable.
We were pumping terabytes per minute through the system and it just couldn’t handle data, now we pump that into the Oracle or the Linux and it’s just like no problem.
- Windows has very good salesman
- Windows has very good marketing teams
- Stop making excuses for the inability to handle large data
- Stop making excuses for how much your product is sucked in the past and fix the problems that it has now like crashing
- Build the tools that I can use on our stable systems called Macintosh, build me a powerBI out that I can use on a Mac
- I have lost hundreds of gigabytes of data because of their precious
- I have lost hundreds of Files over a weekend because of blue screen crashes
- Give up on the.net architecture it doesn’t work for big data
Microsoft has gone from its pinnacle at Windows Microsoft has gone from its pinnacle at windows NT.
Microsoft is now the second string junior varsity league company that is struggling to catch up .
The server crashes it hangs it can’t handle large amounts of data it’s massively oversold and expensively useless for modern applications
- The restart function
- Opening and closing basic window applications
- Long-term stability of database function
- Long-term stability of operating system in full use
- The longest time that the server stayed up was like 26 days
Yes, but I don't use it
The guys and girls tried to work on this for several days and it just isn’t stable with large amounts of data