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Any Tipps on how to do that in a business environment? Preferably from people who are actually using Linux in a professional environment? I'm using Linux at home for more than a decade now, and I don't miss Windows at all, but transforming a smallish company to use Linux in a way that is remotely as comfortable as the Windows stuff seems impossible for now. I need to find solutions that don't make it harder for our staff to get their work done, because they are busy enough with actual work.
Simply replacing MS Office with LibreOffice and Nextcloud for example does not cut it. The tight integration of MS Teams, Office and Cloud functionality is seen as a huge benefit there and I can't just take that away from them unless I find a combination of tools that work in a similar fashion. Using Google products instead is obviously not a viable alternative. Every cloud based solution I have found so far is underwhelming at best and lacks a good integration.
Serious answers appreciated.
You just answered your own question; you can’t. Add in Group Policy Management and Active Directory and there is no windows replacement in any other OS.
Now mix in O365 and it just got more complicated.
If anyone knows of a 1:1 Linux equivalent for AD, GP, and DFS (both replication and namespace) I’d love to learn about it.
https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/windows_integration_guide/sssd-gpo
https://canonical.com/blog/new-active-directory-integration-features-in-ubuntu-22-04-part-3-privilege-management
https://dmulder.github.io/group-policy-book/intro.html
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Group_Policy
https://docs.delinea.com/online-help/server-suite/eval/nix-eval/configuring-the-basic-evaluation-environment/deploying-group-policies-to-unix-computers.htm
https://jumpcloud.com/platform/mdm
I've toyed with this in the past - is heavily lacks development. I personally would just use Ansible with SSSD configured to authenticate against active directory.