Comment by saltamimi

7 days ago

One of the more interesting pieces of Microsoft software is the Windows Admin Center where it's a web app to configure a Windows Server. Ideally, it was made for core installs where there's no GUI but it's there as a viable web management panel.

The tool from OP and WAC are pretty similar in terms of functionality and usecase. Why would you want this? Well, imagine your team needing to be able to do server functions but you have less technical team members to do it for you, which is very often the case in big places, most people are familiar with the web browser and having a website to do these sorts of actions makes it easier to have things done in one place without a lot of tools like Remote Desktop, SSH, WinRM, etc. configured.

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jon-wood  7 days ago

At the risk of being considered a snob I don’t want someone who can’t deal with SSH or RDP configuring servers within my company. If you can’t work out how to SSH into the server you sure as hell aren’t going to work out how to safely expose network services on it.

  • saltamimi  7 days ago

    Within your company, sure. But there's some engineers (think medical) who know standards like DICOM and PACS imaging but aren't familiar at all with OS internals or systems administration.

    • skydhash  7 days ago

      If you’re not a sysadmin, there’s no reason to wrestle around with OS internals and system tools. We have moved away from mainframes and now everyone is root on one’s computer, but honestly anything in /etc, /sbin and /usr/sbin should be irrelevant for daily workflows.