I am finally pushing my MS 2019 server down the river, and setting up a Framework Desktop with MS 2025 for group policy, domain controller, and DNS. My 2019 was also my NAS, but I never got more than one 10 TB WD RED NAS drive in it. This time I am going with a MINISFORUM N5 AI NAS two of the 10 TB WD RED NAS (and probably my old drive for parody) to start with. I plan to add more drives as needed, and my N5 wont be here until later in October.
Main issues right now decommissioning the 2019 server is....I can't install all the drivers on the Framework Desktop w/ 2025 (pro AMD drivers don't support the hard ware, normal drivers don't support the OS). Ah the joys of poking a new server OS. Once this is sorted, I will be taking all but the NAS roles from the 2019. Once the N5 gets here, the 2019 losses its NAS roll and I start my HexOS journey.
Oh and main reason I built a 2019 server for my home and 4 users? Group policy to force windows to behave like your domain account is local admin, like you don't bounce from the performance to balanced power profile randomly, to kill one drive, and more recently to send CoPilot to sleep with the fishes.
