Microsoft AD on Linux

I would like to know this as well

univention corporate server

>>55504698

Interdasting. I'm downloading the ISO now to check it out. Uses a GUI interface, though? I'm a CLI kinda guy. Hopefully their configs and scripts aren't a pain in the ass to deal with from the CLI?

>>55504682
There really isn't a replacement. GPO stuffs are baked into Windows. And if you are trying to run something like SharePoint, Exchange, SCCM/SCOM, etc, forget it.

Netware used to be a thing, but it's not anymore. Too bad, kind of miss Novell.

>>55504779

This is what I was figuring.

I worked for one of the biggest school districts in the USA. They STILL use Netware. They're running Win XP on everything because they can't get Novell's shit to run on Win 7. I literally worked on Win 98 computers just a couple years ago working there. Blows my mind how fucked up school districts are.

>>55504863
How large is this particular site? Single or multiple site?

Depending on site size, I usually build a pair of servers (Mostly Dell T620/T630) and run 2012 R2 data center on them. The AVMA entitlement allows me to spin up as many VM's as I want. All licensed and all activated, while only paying for the two data center licenses.

If you're doing a small site (under 50 users) look into 2012 R2 Essentials. Should work well enough. My only real complaint is that you'd need a standard license to spin up a 2nd DC. Though there is always Azure AD...

Software assurance is also a thing, if that's worth anything to the client.

>>55504682
OES2.

https://www.novell.com/products/openenterpriseserver/

>>55504941
We all know you work for Microsoft. Get the fuck out of here.

>>55508030
Actually, I do. They pay me very well to support system deployments and plan DR scenarios for AD, Exchange, and SQL.

But have fun making minimum wage...

>>55504682
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

>>55509556
And out of nowhere, the interjection.

Nobody asked you...