Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365
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@Dashrender said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:
@scottalanmiller said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:
@Dashrender said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:
@scottalanmiller said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:
@BRRABill said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:
a) logging into our machines
AD is only useful if you are maintaining central creds to log into multiple machines. And at just 10 users, that's considered not to make sense, even by MS standards. So even when that functionality is needed, AD isn't considered a good option for that.
Really? then what is? manually maintaining 10 logons on each machine?
Nope, maintaining just one, like any normal person.
really - what about the bolded part - multiple people logging into multiple machines? I totally agree if it's a one person to one computer situation, but I quoted you in the multi user to single machine situation.
Right, and that's how nearly all places are. Especially when you are dealing with people taking machines home. Are there exceptions? Of course. But we've already highlighted that AD is useful when you have that special case.
I literally said it was useful in that one case, and you responded as if I'd said the opposite. And we were saying that its not useful in the general case where 90%+ of companies are.
Normal companies, the vast majority, don't have any real use for people logging into lots of machines at random. It's not normal. At all. It's a valid use case, but far from normal. So for normal shops, implementing solutions based on the niche case is crazy. For those in the niche case, there are lots of ways to handle it, AD is a good one, but just one of lots of ways to tackle it.
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Wow ... it's been a month since I asked this!
From the responses, I guess there is a third little piece of this, in RMM and also how much I want control over my user machines.
In many ways, I was almost considering them all just having fresh installs, like they went out and bought a new laptop from Best Buy, and now want to attach to Office365.
The files will be there, they can collaborate. Do I really need to provide anything else?
We are currently using an RMM solution still so I can run scripts and assist remotely if needed.
