At the office, the main use case for Windows Server involves different functions, for example, file server or firewall and the IIS server, Microsoft Internet Server, Internet Information Services. Basically, we use it as a file server for other applications on the server.

The best features of Windows Server include the interface. The interface is so easy and friendly. I know the Linux environment, but I think the user interface of Windows Server is the best.

Our customers use the Active Directory integration in Windows Server, and our application connects to this Active Directory.

I don't have experience with Windows Server containers and Kubernetes for deploying cloud-native applications.

I cannot provide specific improvements for Windows Server because I don't have extensive experience with Hyper-V operations. I have only completed two tests.

I have 10 to 15 years of experience with Windows Server. I have worked with versions since 2008, 2012, 2016, and the current version 2019.

I don't use or have had any contact with Microsoft support in the last few years.

In this case, it saves money.

Regarding the amount saved, I would estimate the resource savings to be about 50 to 70%, approximately 60%.

Regarding pricing or licensing for Windows Server, there are options for CPU or core numbers. There are licensing options for on-premise and other options available in the cloud.

I think the pricing is expensive because if you know how to administer or manage Linux, a file server is cheaper to use. However, if you know how to administer Linux, then Windows Server is still the best option for its friendly interface.

I am familiar with Hyper-V technology but I tested it some years ago. I am currently using Oracle VM VirtualBox, and the other option is VMware.

I am referring to Hyper-V technology within Windows Server.

We are a Lenovo administrator and purchased a Lenovo server five or six years ago.

In the company, we have five servers with Windows Server and we are users of Microsoft 365, and we use other Microsoft Office software.

The main cloud provider for Windows Server is Nexus.

Some customers use enterprise version, while others are standard version users.

We have services for other companies in different business sectors including finance, education, and manufacturing.

We are not managing the Active Directory services; we are just users for this security. Our application connects to the customer's Active Directory and validates credentials with this service.

We have Windows Defender on laptops without needing any other tools.

We have sensitive information at our organization, and we maintain a backup on Amazon for this information.

For documentation, I find resources on the internet, YouTube, and Microsoft Docs, as there is extensive information available online.

I receive help from colleagues in the office, as some collaborators and employees manage this information and administration.

My company acts as resellers for Microsoft. For selling licenses for Windows Server or other Microsoft products, we contact Nexus, which is the big partner for Microsoft.

I would rate Windows Server eight out of ten.

The main use cases for Windows Server involve file sharing, such as file server and network shares. We are not a big organization using Windows Server. We are in the transportation industry, and we have a data center. We have approximately 15 servers and 50 machines, some of them are virtual.

The Active Directory integration helps my organization manage permissions and maintain security policies effectively. The security groups are perfect for what I need. I can give groups of users access to specific subfolders easily through the AD security group instead of adding users individually. You simply add them to a security group and the rest of it follows. This is a good mechanism.

It definitely saves my team a lot of time. It's hard to say exactly how much time it saves, but imagine you need to add five new users to a share. Instead of going in, logging in, and finding the user, I just add the members to the group. Click okay, apply, and they have access to the network shares. I don't even need to access the server directly, which is a nice part of it.

The best features of Windows Server are that it works and gives us everything we need to share files and set security permissions. It is done effectively in terms of the NTFS permissions. I can base them on AD security groups.

I have utilized the Active Directory integration in Windows Server for identity management, and they are on a domain.

We haven't utilized Windows containers and Kubernetes for deploying any applications. I'm trying to learn it and have started to watch YouTube content for my understanding.

I cannot tell if the security enhancements such as Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection have contributed to protecting sensitive data.

We have not implemented the failover clustering feature in Windows Server.

I have experience with Windows Server for approximately four to five years.

In terms of stability, I would say it's good. Looking at Windows Server 2025, there are still bugs to fix, but 2019 has been there for years and is pretty stable. It's doing a very good job.

I think Windows Server does a very good job with scalability. From what I've read, it can scale out easily.

I have not dealt with Microsoft customer service or technical support directly. My colleague worked with them, and they were available and helped fix the issue. It worked.

I assess the impact of Hyper-V technology on our resource utilization and hardware costs as very attractive after Broadcom killed VMware for small companies. That's why I'm looking at other technologies and what people say about them.

The initial setup of Windows Server is straightforward in my opinion. It comes with lots of features or things by default. It's already set up with a certain level of security and other things that require hardening based on our company policies, but it's straightforward. It's doing its job and comes ready to continue the setup.

I do not have experience with Azure products or Citrix. I'm getting to know what other people are saying about the product.

I do not deal with any other types of products such as Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto, or testing tools. I just work with Windows Server.

I do not deal with other products such as Windows Server AppFabric or WSUS, Windows Server Update Services. It's an old-style pure server, on-premises, physical.

I use patch management, such as the update services. We do have it, but it's not me who's taking care of it.

I see lots of new features that Microsoft brings into Windows Server 2025. I understand it's not ready for a general release yet. It's definitely very interesting with the new features and focused a lot on the cloud part of it, so it's something to explore.

I can't say which specific feature I'm most looking forward to seeing since I don't deal with cloud. I don't have it in my environment, but I'm trying to learn it. I'm keeping up with my reading about it, so once I have a better understanding, maybe we can try something.

I am still a system administrator with TFI International.

On a scale of 1-10, I rate Windows Server a 9.

I use the solution in my company for hosting websites. For the many roles my colleagues and I played in the organization, Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019 were useful.

The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that every Microsoft product is scalable, flexible, secure, and available on a certain budget.

The UI of the product is an area of concern where improvements are needed to make it more user-friendly. Vulnerabilities are an area for Microsoft to look into so that improvements can be made. From a security perspective, sometimes, malware attacks and hackers take advantage of the tool's vulnerabilities. There is a need to have updates in the product to fill in the vulnerability gaps.

I have ten to eleven years of experience with Windows Server. I have been using Windows Server since 2013.

It is a stable solution.

Users can increase the hardware or virtual environment and memory, and it is scalable enough to meet the company's requirements.

Everybody in the organization uses the product. The HR department uses the solution for storage purposes and the website hosting from where the internal applications are made available for use within the company. The developers in our company also developed certain applications that can be hosted on Windows Server. In general, the solution has around 500 users in my company.

My company can increase the number of users of the product in the future, especially if we achieve the capability that can allow us to scale up.

My company did not use the support offered by the product since we have a technical expert who handles the server in our company.

The product's initial setup phase is simple.

For the product's installation phase, you just download the server on Hyper-V or any bare metal hypervisor and install the solution by clicking the next options provided.

The solution was deployed on an on-premises model. The solution can also be used on the cloud services offered by GCP or AWS. In short, the product is deployed on a hybrid cloud model.

If everything is ready and in place, meaning if the prerequisites for the deployment are met within a particular environment, then the installation process takes around an hour to be completed.

The product can be deployed with the help of our company's in-house team.

Only if I consider the fact that my company's technical team is capable enough to handle the vulnerabilities can I say that the ROI is good.

There is a need to make payments towards the licensing charges of the product since we used to purchase licenses for consumption in our company. Microsoft used to provide my company with the keys that can be directly put in to activate the server. If I look into the tasks my company does with the product, I would say that the tool is not that expensive.

There are only two or three options, like Linux or Unix, that can be considered against Windows Server.

My company did not use the support offered by the product since we have a technical expert who handles the server in our company. Every organization uses Windows Server. Most people opt for Windows when it comes to servers since no one can do any work without servers.

The tool is scalable, flexible, easy to use, user-friendly, handy, and easy to maintain, and authentication is good. The product can be integrated with any solution.

I rate the overall tool a nine out of ten.