A Story of Windows Server
April 27, 2019
A Story of Windows Server
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Windows Server
As a software company, we develop our products and do integration projects for our customers. Since MS technologies are mostly used by the developers, MS infrastructure has to be used to test the builts. My company also is a software reseller and a solution partner. The vendors some of the modules require the Windows Server platform. Thus, we have to use Windows Server for self-study, tests, and experiments for pre-deployment and pre-implementation tasks. Briefly, the selected development and software infrastructure drove us to use Windows Server.
- Having an integrated GUI eases management.
- Windows Servers' uptime is fairly well.
- There are many third-party management tools where there is no solution brought by Microsoft.
- The requirement to restart after updates is the worst thing about Windows Server.
- Windows Service infrastructure sometimes has issues to start an application as a service.
- There is an event and troubleshooting mechanism which doesn't help much mostly. Also, IDs which were given for a problem are not user-friendly.
- Some configurations require deep diving into the registry and sometimes it feels like it doesn't work due to complicated documentation.
- After Investing in Windows Server (or Microsoft technologies) it feels like it grabs you as time passes. As usual, such systems get mature and develops in time. You may find your self stuck in MS technologies and can't move to another platform.
- If you have moderate knowledge on Windows Server it is easy to have a well-managed server. The learning curve may be lower than alternatives.
- Since it is very popular and widely used, it is also popular among attackers. Don't forget to use an antivirus and keep the server hotfixes up to date. Keeping it up to date may require frequent restarts which means a decrease in uptime duration.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Ubuntu Linux
Choosing a server technology actually means what platform will the software product that your company uses, require.
Say that:
- you use MS office, It is well integrated with Outlook.
- Since the enterprise messaging solution is very important, Outlook is the only excellent client of Exchange
- Exchange must run on a Windows Server.
What brought us to use Windows Server.:
- the infrastructure that my companies' customers chose
- the software development platform that my company chose
- the infrastructure that the software vendor (which we resell) chose