@James appreciate the advice. For professional IT management I agree latest /greatest hardware/software after a shakeout period. My shakeout period is 1 year for Microsoft. Anything newer and we seem to be doing beta testing.

For us amateur IT managers/(doc), I'm often upgrade shy as it always bring new issues that require time to track down. Server 2012R2 has been more issue free than 2016 for me. 2012R2 limited only by Microsoft's lack of effort fixing bugs on an old platform. Based on that I haven't ventured to 2019 yet other than my home server - seems ok so maybe I'll jump to 2019 from 2012R2.

Workstations are all Win 10 fall releases usually ~6-12m old as that seems to yield least issues.

Opinions?

Larry
Solo IM
Midwest