Anyone using this or something similar? http://www.printerlogic.com/eliminate-print-servers/

What is the LANless methodology to getting rid of these print servers?

@Dashrender said:

huh - have you asked that vendor if they are developing to be able to use Azure AD as well as legacy AD?

Not lately, thx for reminding me. Let me check!

@adam.ierymenko said:

@FATeknollogee For us though, ZT always tends to focus on the future. We don't work too hard to support things that are too legacy, at least right now, because we are a very lean little startup. If we had more resources we might if there were a demonstrated market.

Believe me, I love ZT. Getting ready to spend the $4/mo on a couple of networks

@scottalanmiller said:

Or not use AD. Always an option.

Not when you need the app & AD is the only option to authenticate!

@scottalanmiller said:

We only run so many apps, so nearly everything is inside of Office 365. So not SSO itself, but it acts basically that way.

That makes sense.
For those of us with legacy apps, we have to wait for our vendors to "catch up"

@Dashrender I thought you just said you got rid of AD?

@scottalanmiller said:

Mostly... we aren't authenticating. It's not needed today like it used to be. Tons of companies are moving away from it today, it just doesn't have the value that it used to have.

But when we need it, Azure AD.

Is there some form of SSO?

@Dashrender said:

Oh i agree - and I'm trying to do the same, and I've already one it for one client.

Same question for you @Dashrender What is your "AD"?

@scottalanmiller said:

I've seen people look at phasing it out. Not common, but it is definitely happening and accelerating. We did, for example.

What is your new method of authenticating?

@gjacobse said:

With so few users - why do you need such hardware.

It could be 50 or 100, that's why it's a design on a napkin!

@scottalanmiller said:

What's stopping those from virtualization?

Nothing, I was just trying to "broaden" the use case

I agree no physical.
I only added "physical" 'coz of Server 2k3/Legacy apps

See diagram of very simple old school LAN design (black dots = switches)

Let's go "nu skewl" & transition LAN'less.

Comment away or draw up your napkin design..

0_1456354709890_LANless.pdf

@wirestyle22 said:

I actually just send out a notice about this company-wide right before you posted. Ransomware is annoying.

What was said in your notice?

@JaredBusch
That sounds good.

What edition do you have & what was pricing like?

@JaredBusch

Cloud or Self hosted?

@gjacobse said:

ScreenConnect (SC) has been a really useful too. I like it over TeamViewer and LogMeIn...

Why do you prefer SC over TV?

@scottalanmiller said:

I'm watching the videos trying to figure out what it does. Looks like a decent product but haven't seen any single pane of glass stuff yet.

Did you at least find one compelling feature?

@scottalanmiller said:

@FATeknollogee said:

Alike is also claiming single pane of glass, backup in one hypervisor - restore in another etc

Single pane of glass means all VM management, replication, capacity monitoring, failver, etc. Alike does that?

Don't know about failover, but the other stuff yes (per the website), remember, my experience with this product is zero.

Alike is also claiming single pane of glass, backup in one hypervisor - restore in another etc