It's configurable and particularly if you're running a production system you'll be wanting your own domain controller configured correctly to control Windows Up

It's configurable and particularly if you're running a production system you'll be wanting your own domain controller configured correctly to control Windows Update. If you're using the OS version which is designed to by used on Grandma's desktop as a server then you should expect a world of pain. Me? I try to avoid using Windows hosts because .Net runs great under Linux and you don't need to have 5 different Windows VMs running on your dev machine to have an accurate development environment.