Corporations haven’t ditched windows because Active Directory and Group Policy had no equal. Now that Microsoft has slowly pushed everybody to cloud based identity, there’s really nothing stopping you from using something other than AD or even Entra ID
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shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoDoesn’t matter much what users do. Corporations are nowhere close to ditching Windows.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Identity management is only one aspect of AD. Very telling that all these rebuttals are thinking only in terms of what LDAP can handle.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Are you commenting from the year 2007?
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
That or they have a large stake in microsoft.
Honytawk@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
No, 2025.
GPOs may be replaced with InTune, but the importance is still the same.
unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
A buddy of mine works for a fortune 500 company that started giving out MacBooks as the standard hardware this year. Apparently you need to jump through a bunch of hoops if you want to run Windows. I was shocked to hear it but Microsoft deserves to be humbled.
UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You can totally manage a fleet of Linux devices. Next to all servers run Linux. How the hell would you do that without appropriate tooling? We use Ansible for example - Which certainly isn’t a perfect solution, but a working one.
Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks ago
A lot of servers run Linux. With VDI being more plausible the idea of giving laptops that are basically a “zero” has been floated.
Last time I was in work it was in a secure environment so maybe that’s not widespread.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’ve seen a lot of companies that are all mac. And didnt a European government just change to all linux ?
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My last company was a software dev and even they were only 70/40 Windows/Mac.
Yes, seems lots of European agencies are moving to FOSS, but more towards open office solutions. Moving to Linux for the OS makes fleet management pure hell. I know LDAP exists, but that doesn’t begin to compare to AD.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Please tell us the name of this 110% software dev, so we can avoid it. There is a min amount of math needed here.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Made a typo smartass, and you know it. 70/30.
Now tell us all how smart you really are. Tell us how to manage a fleet of Linux or Mac machines, or even a mixed environment. One reason I passed an interview was with this very question! Go.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I feel like AD is a solution for a problem that Microsoft created.
Honytawk@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
It is a solution for a problem that companies had and isn’t solved in Linux.
Because Linux users think all computers need to be as open as possible, while Windows admins know we need to protect users from themselves. Especially when it comes to highly important data.
Even letting users install software themselves leads to users installing wrong version, malware, software they don’t need, software they shouldn’t use, incompatible software, and software they have no clue about but someone recommended.
The most vulnerable aspect of cybersecurity is still the users.
kescusay@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You do know you can use AD with Linux, don’t you?
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I would love an explanation of how AD can control Linux machines! Can I reset you Linux password over AD? Can I lock you out of using removable media? How the hell do GPOs work?!
AD isn’t simply authentication, grouping computers and users. LDAP does all that.