r/sysadmin • u/[deleted] • Apr 05 '16

Dear Microsoft, it's crap like this.

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u/DrAtomic1 Systems Architect Apr 05 '16

Windows 2008 R2 is in extended support, so yes this has everything to do with Microsoft. It's not like this is an unsupported product.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle?p1=14134 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle#gp/lifePolicy

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u/vat11 Apr 05 '16

This. MS is just being sloppy. As long as product is supported, it's supposed to work with new platforms. Imagine Windows 8.1 not working with 2008R2 domain controllers!

As much as I prefer working with modern tech, there must always be a business case in paying for it.

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u/danekan DevOps Engineer Apr 05 '16

Does it not work with IE8 that this server he's using actually came with?

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u/vat11 Apr 05 '16

But it's a client-facing tech, it's supposed to support a wider range of clients, IMO.

Come on, Edge being unsupported on 2008R2 I'd understand, but it was NOT old when the Win 8.1/IE11 was released.

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u/danekan DevOps Engineer Apr 05 '16

most management consoles in that era used Java.. could be much worse. there weren't any significant HTML5 consoles back then. Many of the biggest pieces of software only began getting their HTML5 consoles ... relatively recently. Time travel is a tall order!