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Recommended replacement for Windows AD?

I'm looking for ideas. Given Microsoft's direction lately toward cloud, away from Small Business, toward built-in data mining, our pension fund office is thinking about moving away from SBS/Windows AD to something different like Mac or Linux. If we did something like that, are there ways to reproduce the AD functionality? I can certainly see this a doable on internal workstations, but what about duplicating the Remote Desktop functionality for home-login?

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Thanks for the feedback so far. In fact, we have partially migrated already. Given that the Microsoft's SBS product has been dropped and its replacement, Server Essentials does not support Exchange, we did migrate to Samba4 from SBS 2008 for AD/DC about 7 months ago and have had few issues and much easier monitoring and logging of potential security problems. I did explore OpenChange and Zentyal about a year ago, but perhaps Zentyal should be revisited. However, we decided to go the IMAP route instead of Exchange (or Exchange clone) and that has worked out just fine. given that, maybe Zentyal is moot is this point.

Also, we are in the process of downgrading from Office 2013 back to Office 2010. If interested, see my comments on why here: https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28715146/More-Office-2013-woes-message-sent-within-Word-going-to-wrong-Sent-folder.html?anchorAnswerId=41005348#a41005348.

In general, server-side isn't really my immediate concern ...

Now, given Windows 10's default settings to snarf as much personal data as possible from your computer, a la facebook and google, and this being a very security conscience office, I am considering moving the workstations to something else like Mac or Linux/Ubuntu. Mac provides corporate support and a large user base, and a corporation that currently assures us it's not after our personal data (Tim Cook  EPIC’s Champions of Freedom: http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/02/apples-tim-cook-delivers-blistering-speech-on-encryption-privacy/#.c3bzxc:kVGu). Advantages of Linux are cost, potential dual-boot back to Windows and the ability to construct desktops that can look/act either like Mac or Windows, depending on the user's religious preferences.

What I'm not sure about is reproducing the whole "roving domain profile" thing whereby a user can log on to any workstation in the domain and get his/her desktop and settings, and in particular doing the same from home (probably from a Windows or Mac home computer).  On the workstations, we can use eMclient or the like, and e.g. LibreOffice as MS Office replacements (recommendations?), but the domain profile thing is a pretty nice Microsoft feature.

Lee W, MVP, does your mentioned "Linux terminal server project" address this? Are there other ideas on providing this functionality in the Mac/Linux world?

Sanga Collins, good comment on your quickbooks solution. We use quickbooks as well.
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