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kwester-ebbinghaus-business
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Sep 09, 2021
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Understanding Windows Update Services product categories for Windows Server 2022 and Azure Stack HCI

The new Server 2022 LTSC has arrived. And it is a great release. Some customers still struggle to find their SA benefits and ISOs / licenses and RDSH licenses in VLSC, but it is officially released....
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    kwester-ebbinghaus-business
    Sep 10, 2021

    After further discussion with Artem, it is more understandable why this category.
    While we agree the name is not a nice one. There are some facts that make the decision more understandable.

    Windows Server 2019 did not only include Windows Server 2019 but also Windows Hyper-V 2019, as well as Windows Server version 1809 (SAC). All shared the binary same patches.
    So, the category name in the past was also misleading.

    This is the best explanation why the new name and no single category for Windows Server 2022 and a separate category for Azure Stack HCI OS 21H2.

    Thank you Artem for taking the time on this debate. 
    p.s. if you want to learn more about Artem Pronichkin here is a nice interview and links.
    I really like his blogpost on his webpage about the history and PowerShell transition of sconfig. Worth reading.

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Alban1999
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Oct 08, 2021
Thanks, I'll check this. And thanks for your efforts I really do appreciate, even if it failed in the end anyway.
I wish Microsoft would discuss this with MVP and other IT Pros first, then decide on it later for this kind of change. We got Tech community blogs, forums, UserVoice, those tools exist for a reason. This is too important to be decided through Twitter.

And I just realize WSUS are automatically ordered using alphabetical, which means this product will sit right next to Microsoft Edge, instead of Windows Server forever. Sigh.
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kwester-ebbinghaus-business
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Oct 08, 2021
I agree very much on your feedback. It was not decided on twitter, just published by Artem and I have picked up a discussion and thankfully he was also spending time to hear the feedback and to explain some internal point of views.

Yes the sorting does not make it easier I have added a screenshot to my original post, to make it clear, because our apprentices also failed to find it with the given new name, and also me took some time to find it.

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