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I feel like this is much of why I hate windows server administration compared to linux.

If you want to know something on linux, either read the man pages or check online. Someone probably wrote a blog post 13 years ago (but carefully updated over the years to keep the information fresh and accurate) that details exactly what you need to do step by step, along with a conversation about the options that you have as you are instantiating the server and asks for nothing in return other than the pleasure of having shared their knowledge.

If you want to know something on Windows, you can either get extremely lucky and figure it out yourself after hours of trial and error or find the one post on the internet that details the specific issue you have.

Learning how to administrate windows servers from official Microsoft sites? That is like reading an encyclopedia to learn how to do surgery. Microsoft's official education webpages on windows administration is the end user equivalent of watching a youtube video on how to rebuild a lawnmower engine when you need to put gas in your weed eater. It's in the ballpark range of the information you need but is so fundamentally inept and terribly wrong for a useful purpose that it boggles the mind how there isn't a better source of information.

And now we learn that there is a better source of information. Printed books. Intentionally sold by the people who wrote the terrible online documentation.

Because this is 1954 and we don't have any other options, right?