There are potential pitfalls associated with each approach to scaling Jenkins, but with careful planning, many of them can be avoided or managed.
It was likely impacting process termination on Windows agents and sometimes leading to BSoD. ... The protocol can be enabled manually via the jenkins.slaves.
"Installing slave as Windows service" feature was broken since 1.272 (issue 2886); Top level People page showed no project information since 1.269. (report) ...
Quoting Issue with JDK Installer with Windows Slave (issue 5408); /about no longer shows third-party licenses (issue 17724); Failed to instantiate class ...