[stevear]

I run a Windows shop and for the longest time we used a third party product called Radmin for our remote administration. Finally, after some time we switched over to RDP for a number of reasons... but one of the top ones is simply that is has such massive adoption. Any vulnerability that bubbles to the surface will be announced from the highest mountains as is the case here. When I was using a third-party product there could have been a critical update released and I don't feel I would have heard through the grapevine for quite some time.

In my opinion, having a vanilla Microsoft stack is useful in a lot ways, one of them being that news travels fast within the Microsoft ecosystem.

I agree with the author though, nothing is more eye roll inducing then when some unhelpful fellow chimes in with "Why are you doing it that way?" and 'that way' is the way million and millions of people are doing it.