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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?
All ideas welcome and worth points!
All ideas welcome and worth points!
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My solution is what I did. Point all 'round for "playing".
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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.