Microsoft has made it official that they are not planning to bring sudo to Windows Server 2025, but it will find its way to Windows 11.
Update: As it turns out, Microsoft isn’t planning on bringing the power of sudo to Windows Server 2025 and, instead, plans on adding it to an upcoming consumer release of Windows 11.
According to the Microsoft Devblog for February 7, 2024, sudo has arrived in the Canary and Dev Channel for Windows 11 (for the Insider Program), with build number 26020. And, according to the Windows Insider Blog, the sudo setting found in Windows Server 2025 was an accident about which a Microsoft representative had this to say:
Note: A setting that enables sudo may incorrectly appear in Windows Server Insider Preview builds, but the feature will not be enabled on Windows Server and the setting will be disabled in a future Server Insider Preview build.
The information you’ll find below will apply to the consumer version of the Windows 11 desktop but not the server version of the operating system.
Microsoft is taking steps to not only make the next version of Windows 11 more secure but also easier to administer.
