Dallas;3863689 said:
Oh really? Could you riddle me some better enterprise domain software w/o all of the 3rd party SSO tie ins for Unix and Linux systems to communicate w/ ADS?
Could you go into detail of a better enterprise email system available handling tls/ssl and encryption other than Exchange?
There isn't a better Office suite available for an enterprise envionrment other than Office.
I get the MS backlash and the hate but it's always interesting to see folks opinions of better products that could handle say....15-20 trusts and numerous heterogeneus OS envrionments in say a single forest domain.
Not bashing...just curious.
I completely aggree about the domain, but Exchange you are reaching a touchy subject.
Exchange works like this. Exchange can be okay, but the bigger the rollout, the worse it gets. Also, if you don't know exactly what you are doing when setting it up and managing it, Exchange is can be an absolute nightmare.
In my previous employment, we had Exchange and it was a cluster you know what. We had about 450 mailboxes. I kick the Windows admin in the nads and took over the Exchange servers from him. I built an entirely new Exchange cluster and migrated all the mailboxes over to it. (make sure to split the mailboxes up into more smaller stores) It ran much better after that, but still. Exchange is no damn darling of a mail server. They need to stop trying to add more services to it. Sometimes it just better to keep them separate and integrate single signon.
As for Office. We use a mix of LibreOffice (OpenOffice) and MS Office here at my current position. It works just fine. The only people who use MS Office are those that use specific financial plugins that require an actual Excel instance.
There is no doubt about Windows Domain services. Windows Server blows anything *nix makes out of the water. All my hardware is Unix or Linux. I have Windows domain controllers for my office networks, but they are visualized.
