Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement
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@CCWTech said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:
@Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:
No one here knows - we don't run that software.
No one here runs Server 2019 Essentials?
I tried to download the eval when it first came out and then they pulled it. Rolled a 2016 Essentials server last month when 2019 wasn't available.
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@Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:
@IRJ said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:
@Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:
@IRJ said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:
@Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:
@CCWTech said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:
@Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:
No one here knows - we don't run that software.
No one here runs Server 2019 Essentials?
No - most here run standard Windows Server or some flavor or Linux. Essentials is only for SUPER tiny environments (I think it's limited to 25 connections)... a version that at least with 2012 didn't require User CALs, making it significantly cheaper for super tiny shops that required Windows, but once you hit over 25, you got a HUGE upgrade cost i.e. full server license and 25+ CALs.
Yep. It is generally not reliable either. At least earlier version weren't. Throw all MS services on one piece of underpowered hardware and then throw all your apps over it. What could go wrong?
I guess i was lucky - when they started calling it Essentials - there weren't that many services left - File/Print/AD/DNS/DHCP and what WSUS? that's all pretty typical single box stuff in my mind. WSUS could be shit for sure, but the rest can work together no issues.
Back when it was SBS server and had Exchange and possibly a corporate firewall and SQL server - OMG - yeah, kill me now!.
That's just the out of the box stuff that can be simple solved off windows very easily
Dont forget that these businesses like to throw quickbooks and other poorly made sofware on their Essentials server including these other services which are already too much to have on one box IMO. It's 2019, virtualize
It would be interesting to know if Essentials allows for the install of 3rd party software like that?
Probably does..QuickBooks is the reason I have so many Essentials servers out there. If the environment is large enough where you can't just make one computer "the server" and share QuickBooks from there, Server Essentials goes in along with QuickBooks Database manager and its 25 year old architecture and you call it a day.
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@Mike-Davis said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:
@CCWTech said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:
@Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:
No one here knows - we don't run that software.
No one here runs Server 2019 Essentials?
I tried to download the eval when it first came out and then they pulled it. Rolled a 2016 Essentials server last month when 2019 wasn't available.
Not surprised - with all the 1809 issues, they pull all 2019 server things... though I heard they were back now.
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To answer the original question, you don't have to make it a domain controller.
https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/windowsserver/2018/09/05/windows-server-2019-essentials-update/Windows Server 2019 Essentials has the same licensing and technical characteristics as its predecessor, Windows Server 2016 Essentials. If configured as a Domain Controller, Windows Server 2019 Essentials must be the only Domain Controller, must run all Flexible Single Master Operations (FSMO) roles, and cannot have two-way trusts with other Active Directory domains.
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@Mike-Davis I already answered the OP's question.
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Microsoft states on their Website that it is not worth basically (besides CALS)
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-essentials/get-started/what-s-new-19
They want you to be in Office 365 instead... So I would rethink it.
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@dbeato said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:
Microsoft states on their Website that it is not worth basically (besides CALS)
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-essentials/get-started/what-s-new-19
They want you to be in Office 365 instead... So I would rethink it.
huh? So they got rid of the "easy" to use console - I hated that thing anyway.
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@Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:
@dbeato said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:
Microsoft states on their Website that it is not worth basically (besides CALS)
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-essentials/get-started/what-s-new-19
They want you to be in Office 365 instead... So I would rethink it.
huh? So they got rid of the "easy" to use console - I hated that thing anyway.
Yeah, they did.
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Of course Microsoft has removed the tools that work for the ultra small businesses. It cost MS way more money to maintain those tools compared to their customer base that would use it.
Where as O365 is a scale on demand solution, that charges those tiny customers forever. Compared to the one-time approach of Server Essentials.
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@Mike-Davis said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:
@Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:
@IRJ said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:
@Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:
@IRJ said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:
@Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:
@CCWTech said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:
@Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:
No one here knows - we don't run that software.
No one here runs Server 2019 Essentials?
No - most here run standard Windows Server or some flavor or Linux. Essentials is only for SUPER tiny environments (I think it's limited to 25 connections)... a version that at least with 2012 didn't require User CALs, making it significantly cheaper for super tiny shops that required Windows, but once you hit over 25, you got a HUGE upgrade cost i.e. full server license and 25+ CALs.
Yep. It is generally not reliable either. At least earlier version weren't. Throw all MS services on one piece of underpowered hardware and then throw all your apps over it. What could go wrong?
I guess i was lucky - when they started calling it Essentials - there weren't that many services left - File/Print/AD/DNS/DHCP and what WSUS? that's all pretty typical single box stuff in my mind. WSUS could be shit for sure, but the rest can work together no issues.
Back when it was SBS server and had Exchange and possibly a corporate firewall and SQL server - OMG - yeah, kill me now!.
That's just the out of the box stuff that can be simple solved off windows very easily
Dont forget that these businesses like to throw quickbooks and other poorly made sofware on their Essentials server including these other services which are already too much to have on one box IMO. It's 2019, virtualize
It would be interesting to know if Essentials allows for the install of 3rd party software like that?
Probably does..QuickBooks is the reason I have so many Essentials servers out there. If the environment is large enough where you can't just make one computer "the server" and share QuickBooks from there, Server Essentials goes in along with QuickBooks Database manager and its 25 year old architecture and you call it a day.
Same kind of problem here.
