Item: Windows Server
Rating: 10
Author: Gabriel Krahn

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Windows Server as the general server and AD solution, company-wide. Everything related to the AD server, GPOs, user-management, file and application hosting is based on Windows Server.

Pros and Cons

Active directory.
GPOs.
File hosting.

Comes at a very high price.

Return on Investment

I'm not involved in the ROI evaluation process.

Support Rating

It's Microsoft. Microsoft is a company that never lets its users and customers down, despite the high price. But its a well-paid value as the support is really awesome and helpful.

Key Insights

Do you think Windows Server delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Windows Server's feature set?

Yes

Did Windows Server live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Windows Server go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Windows Server again?

Yes

We are currently at the 10k+ users point. Windows Server has proven itself as the best way to manage all these users using the AD prompt, where we can link the user accounts with a lot of intern systems using the same user account. Furthermore, we are using Windows Server in our datacenters to store customer and user data, such as applications and general files.

The best AD solution ever

Overall Satisfaction with Windows Server