One point - in Windows Server 2016, Windows Defender is turned on by default (antivirus/anti-malware). You'll definitely want to either write exclusions for all 4D-related directories and file types, or disable it altogether (you can do a Google search for how to completely disable it if your server is well firewalled... required command line access to do this).
> On May 6, 2019, at 1:45 PM, Tom Benedict via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> > wrote: > > Hi Ed, > >> We are beginning to transition our servers from Mac to Windows. For those >> of you who have made the journey, what have you found to be best practices >> for a built c/s app running on Windows Server 2016 Standard? Are there any >> gotcha's we should watch out for? Direct roads to smooth sailing? > > Running 4D Server under Windows Server is pretty straightforward. I don’t > know about specific WS 2016 issues, but in general there are only a few > things to set for 4D Server to run best. > > One thing to make sure is to set it to be optimized as a data server, not a > file server. In WS 2008 that setting was in the “Performance Options” control > Panel, but may be elsewhere in v2016. This setting is no longer around... it's smart enough to figure out what you're doing and not run into dueling cache issues. Jeff ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************
