• lud
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    11 months ago

    Active directory and it’s integration with services such as DNS and DHCP is pretty great though. I wish Microsoft started focusing less on cloud and improved the user (or rather admin) experience of their server tools, they are quite awful is some cases.

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      11 months ago

      I swear to god most of Windows Server’s tools have barely changed since NT 4.0

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        11 months ago

        And sometimes they make a new tool that’s better, kinda. And then they never bother updating it to make it good. Looking at you AD admin center.

        GPedit is the most annoying tool ever. Why the hell can’t I just edit GPO settings values from the active settings menu, without having to open the entire GPO and navigate the huge mess of settings.

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      11 months ago

      AD is the easiest in Windows. We can argue about DNS, but DHCP? You can’t even change the subnet size after the fact without destroying and remaking the scope.

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        11 months ago

        It has a feature with integration with AD. Personally I would just put DHCP on a router or something, but it’s an option.