It launches by default on new installs of Windows Server 2025!

> 2. i think it can't be run on things like AD, so for very small companies this is annoying

In "Preview", which is a sad state of affairs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/manage/wind...

> 3. ... that's not really an admin app?

I was just listing stuff that generally replaced the old MMC consoles. Things like regional options can be set through the Admin app, and is weirdly difficult with other mechanisms even on Windows Server. Some critical aspects are still MMC-only or require half a page of PowerShell scripts.

> 4. sure, but then i might as well switch to linux if i have to stick to cli (and i did)

Ironically, you're missing out on PowerShell, which is more UNIX than UNIX, and blows every legacy shell on Linux out of the water.

> 5. last time i checked there were two versions, incompatible with one another, not great alternative to ansible

There are three now, all incompatible and incomplete: https://dsccommunity.org/blog/what-is-microsoft-dscv3/

> 6. if you have hybrid and are in azure already, maybe? haven't used [Azure Arc]

It's supposed to replace Group Policy, Windows Update, and bits and pieces of SCCM and SCOM.

It is incredibly, hilariously bad at all of those things.

It's a level of failure that simply boggles the mind, and I can only surmise that it was developed by a small army of junior outsourced Indian developers that had never seen any of the tools they were replacing and did everything "to the letter of the spec".