I don't really see a reason to use Windows Server for anything. You can do Active Directory for Windows clients using Samba on a RHEL based Linux distro. I might be wrong, but I think you can even do ...

First and foremost, users need to install the Windows Server Essentials Log Collector Package. For that, check out the steps to learn how to do it: In case, users need to reinstall Log Collector ...

I have a home windows server I setup ages ago. Installed windows server 2012 r2 essentials (got the license through school) and it's been my NAS/workhorse for 10+ years now... It runs my stablebit ...