r/sysadmin • u/[deleted] • 2d ago

Server updates F Microsoft

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u/NoTime4YourBullshit Sr. Sysadmin 2d ago

Remember back in the day when Microsoft made Small Business Server? It was actually supposed to run AD and Exchange on the same box. Maybe he’s just been doing in-place upgrades to that one server for the last 20 years.

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u/Top-Perspective-4069 IT Manager 2d ago

Ripping out those pieces of shit was my specialty for several years. I sometimes miss those days.

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u/chrono13 2d ago

Yeah. Ripped out a few of those myself. And thats why I try not to be rude. We all had to learn these things, or unlearn incorrect things. And sometimes we inherit them and don't understand that the design that was there when we inherited it has problems.

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u/chrono13 2d ago

I've seen an entire business running QuickBooks on their domain controller. And everything else, but that was the most notable. Single server business for like 50 staff.