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What kind of sysadmins are they then? I don't want to sound dismissive, but is a "windows sysadmins" a thing? Do companies run windows on servers?

• fsckboy 2y ago
  windows sysadmins are very much a thing. desktop and laptop MS Windows installed in any company doing anything important is sysadmin'ed centrally. If you require security (not to leak company info) you must disable the ability for users to install anything. The side benefit of this is that the admins can admin other things like mail servers, ip addresses, etc. My gf (accountant) has to call the sysadmins to plug in an external display at home, which they can do remotely at 2 in the morning.
• bigstrat2003 2y ago
  Companies absolutely run Windows servers. In fact, every single company I've ever worked for (except one very small company) has had them. Usually at a minimum, you will have servers running Active Directory, and perhaps DNS (because AD-integrated DNS zones are useful). Then, more often than not companies are MS Exchange shops, plus Sharepoint is common enough. Generally people aren't running web servers on Windows, but the internal IT infrastructure world uses a ton of Windows servers.
  • Aloha 2y ago
    > Generally people aren't running web servers on Windows, but the internal IT infrastructure world uses a ton of Windows servers. With good reason I'd note, its a use case which windows is profoundly good at - whereas web servers are not something I would say windows is very good at.
• throw0101d 2y ago
  > Do companies run windows on servers? All of the Fortune 500 probably does.