Yosemite Server Vs. Windows Server 2012

Hello, I wonder does Yosemite server can replace Windows Server 2012 and work as full as server operation system?
In services:
DNS
DHCP
Webserver
FTP
Mailserver
Maybe Virtualization

We found the same. One small Mac mini replaced a towering Dell, tripled the uptime of our UPS and the Mac Server could not have been easier to configure. It almost fell into operation with all the services you mention. We don't employ an IT department or external contractor to manage this either (we are all electrical engineers here though...)
Biggest benefit other than stability, ease of maintenance? TIME MACHINE - for us - this is worth its weight in gold to have such a simple and effective backup strategy.
But..... We have found some issues with the SMB (File serving / File sharing) functionality from windows clients.
Files that are open on an SMB share from a Windows 7 client, all our users eventually complain that the file/s they have been working on and had open for 2 hours (some shorter some longer) suddenly becomes read only... And they no longer have permission (even though they created it, have group privileges etc) to delete, move, rename etc. Strange things happen with file locks too, so the file can report it's in use when the owner tries to open the file after closing the app and starting again. (problems are related obviously) Only the admin can change it... (doesn't matter the app or format - CAD, Word, Excel.... or MYOB accounting files! etc)
We ended up running a W7 instance in a VM and handle the critical file sharing out of there. (Could have set up server 2012 in a basic mode - but seems mad to have 2 full servers. Had other reasons for wanting the W7 VM anyway - so no big deal, but less than ideal for a "file" server.
If anyone has ideas - about what might cause the crazy permissions issues - happily discuss - but other than that - OSX Server is a great choice for us.

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