Windows Server pros and cons

We like the ease of use, stability and performance of Windows Server.

The most valuable feature is this solution integrates very well with all Microsoft and all other mainstream software solutions and the design is very good. Windows has an option now allowing you to just install the Windows Core with the PowerShell without any graphical services running.

The solution has a sufficient amount of stability and performance that meets my needs.

The initial setup is very simple.

The initial setup is not overly difficult.

The product can scale very well.

The feature that I have found most valuable is the Active Directory. I have had good experience with Windows Server.

A valuable feature of Windows Server has been the performance. We have done all the redundancy and fault tolerance things to protect our servers and, so far, so good.

Microsoft is a trusted brand and I enjoy working with it.

The installation process is great.

As I have already paid for a license, I should have the option of requesting the containerized functionality from the OS to reduce the Windows Server OS footprint.

I used to like the graphical interface and graphical philosophy in previous versions of Windows Server. I am not able to be as fast and efficient as I used to be using a graphical interface. However, Windows has moved to the PowerShell, it is powerful, but is still limited compared to what we do can do in Linux. Linux was built at the beginning of the command line interfaces which is why they have a very powerful command line.

The cost to use the solution is quite high.

The security should be improved.

The security needs to be improved.

If it had more integration capabilities, that would be ideal.

The Active Directory synchronization on Azure. This is something which was not easy to do. Using Azure Active Directory, I was trying to sync and this was not straightforward. This process could be more simplified.

As for additional features, we are very interested in the new feature released by Windows: Azure Virtual Desktop. We are currently exploring it so that instead of people depending on their own desktop, we could work on Azure Virtual Desktop. Integration with Azure Virtual Desktop would be cool.

The graphical user interface could be better. It's a little dated.

There's a short availability that could be much better.