"I am not going to say we cannot change the decision wrt WS2016, but we would need to hear a lot of customer feedback on the business case justifying why upgrading to WS2019 or later is not a viable option."
How can we submit that kind of feedback when we can't even upvote this?
I'll also add the following business case why we can't upgrade 150 WS2016 servers to WS2019 or later just to get Windows LAPS - we live in the real world. We don't have the resource to upgrade servers prior to natural obsolescence just to add lots of "new features" they don't need. When we upgrade versions of applications we put them on the latest OS. That runs the old ones down until we get end of support then we get rid of the rest. It would be lovely to have a team big enough to keep everything on the latest version of Windows, but it's just not practical. And frankly not back-porting this just feels like Microsoft using a big stick instead of a carrot. The code base isn't that radically different between 2016 and 2019 surely? Particularly if it was only supporting Windows Laps for Active Directory to get rid of all the Microsoft LAPS installs?
Would make things easier if Microsoft implement new Features for all supported OS Versions not only for the newest. Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows Server 2016 Windows 10 L...