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[–] techognito@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I am a system admin and have to run a ton of Windows servers

I feel your pain, I am a "Linux System Administrator" and the amount of Windows server crap I have to deal with on a daily basis…

  1. Why is XBOX Live services running by default on Windows Server???
  2. Why is co-pilot running by default on Windows Server??!?!?
  3. And what M$ engineer thought, aah yes the best possible place for a recovery partition is at the end of the main OS partition???!?!?!?!?!
  4. And lastly, what the actual fuck were they thinking when they put Windows 11s shit UI on Windows Server.

On the less ranty/negative side:

  • AD isn't horrible, while I prefer freeIPA, I can't complain too much.
  • powershell other than being wordy commands, is kinda nice.
[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

why is XBOX live services running on windows server

You reminded me of when i was at an MSP and we had this dental client. And they had some actually pretty cool software that processed 3d X-rays and generated a 3d model and would point out various types of potential issues. Now this was like ~2014 so before photometry or AI was really a thing so it was really impressive.

But to compute that stuff in real-ish time (like under 30 seconds, so by the time the patient walked back to the exam room) you had to offload the processing to a Windows server, but that worked fine.

But like everything, Windows updates continue ever """forward""' and eventually they added the Xbox game bar. I didn't think anything of it and just left it running. About a year later and a few updates to the dental software later I am looking at their server and figure "hey, I should disable this. Its a server after all".

Bad mistake. Their software stops working so now they can't take any type of scans. I'm trying to figure it out, I've got a team of engineers looking at this with me. We can't figure it out. Everything looks fine except the process just won't start. No error message, no wrong looking logs. The executable just never starts.

Well turns out at some point along the line they picked up a dependency relying on Xbox game bar for this program to run. So the solution was to just leave the service running lmao.

This is honestly more of a story about bad programming than windows server nonsense but you made me think about it. I wish I figured out what was actually depending on game bar but I left shortly after that. Actually before the patch was pushed out haha