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In news seemingly designed to give me an ulcer, Microsoft is moving Windows Server to Rapid Release.
From the Windows Server blog: "Starting this fall, we plan to deliver two feature updates per year, each spring and fall, aligning to the Windows and Office Semi-annual Channel release cycle."
From this systems administrator's perspective, I do not believe Microsoft has shown that they can deliver the QA on updates necessary for rapid release. Personally, I have been testing Windows 10 since 1507 and I have not seen a trend-line of stable consistency within their updates.
I thought Microsoft would be able to get it together but, anecdotally, Windows 10 updates have been consistently problematic since release. From Office 2016 blocking the installation of cumulative updates on 1607 LTSB, broken and inconsistent removal of AppX packages when following Microsoft's own recommendations, and installation behaviors being documented after the fact like the wholesale reinstallation of AppX packages following build updates, every single month's updates brings me trepidation.
The removal of their QA department 'programmatic testers' seems to be the culprit. From infamous August 2015 update debacle to problems like W10 1703 erroring out on every MDT deployment, this wild inconsistency in monthly update quality has leaked into other Windows branches as well. I have been doing monthly security-only updates with plans to do an annual cumulative update to my templates.
What are other SA's plans about rapid release?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday June 19 2017, @05:09AM (1 child)
I haaaaaaaaaaaate Windows Server. It's the clunkiest, most unintuitive piece of shit I've ever used and don't get me started on bleepity-bleep Powershell. So of course a bunch of customers want it, and on the bare metal, not in Xen...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Monday June 19 2017, @09:34AM
I can't actually say I hate Windows Server because it's been writing my paychecks for the last few months but unless Microsoft makes the in place upgrade story suck less, this is going to go over like a lead balloon. (you can in place upgrade Windows Server; I did that for a client recently because the amount of effort to reinstall was ... excessive, but its not a fun process. Plus we had to double upgrade from 2008 R2 to 2016)
Still always moving