Thank you Mr Pyle for great content as per usual. I have a question with regards to the statement:
It’s available in Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 as an SMB client and in Windows Server 2022 Azure Edition* as an SMB server.
and this cloud only strategy that seems to move forward at a break neck pace right now;
Is there going to be a fully functional Windows Server in the future / next release for organizations preferring on prem footprints?
It seems to me like that part of the customer base is unwanted these days and for me personally it is hard to find the correct architectural bridge to the future given my organization’s traditional reliance on Microsoft Active Directory, SQL Server, IIS and in-house .NET development. It is not a lack of understanding of Azure, it's license structure and endless layers of services on my part - it is that I reject the notion of monthly subscriptions, learning cloud provider specific tooling with no generic area of application outside the cloud provider combined with the sense of customer lock-in that makes public cloud a very hard sell for me. For me as a customer I would like to have the choice were I am to run my workloads and create my services - that choice might be influenced by regulatory frameworks, cost driven issues or just the common fact that we have the know-how to build it our self on top of the traditional Microsoft provided stack hosted on prem.
Best regards
Anders