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[–] lud@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] avapa@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] lud@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] exu@feditown.com 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Or Hod forbit managing IPv6 local space on Windows.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year 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.