DaleB
Final Approach
First off, I am not (a Windows guy, that is). I'm not anti-Windows; Windows has its place. I just haven't had to deal with it other than as a desktop user for many years, since NT4 was replaced by Server 2003 or so. My MCP certification probably expired before some current licensed pilots were born.
That said, let us assume that we have a small company, under 50 or so employees, that will eventually be a not so small company with a couple thousand employees on at least two continents. They're so small now that everyone is using G suite apps for email, calendar, meetings, etc. Some are using Chromebooks. All are working remotely. And let us further assume that their newly hired Benevolent Dictator of All Things Infrastructure has been chest-deep in Linux for years and has no recent experience with AD, Microsoft products, Azure, and the like. Your first job is to get everyone migrated off of Google apps and onto Office. You're going to need AD, device management, and so on. What route would you take? Azure AD? On-prem AD in 2-3 physical locations, with a VPN? Something else?
For my next trick, watch me set up an entire phone infrastructure for a multinational corporation out of thin air.
That said, let us assume that we have a small company, under 50 or so employees, that will eventually be a not so small company with a couple thousand employees on at least two continents. They're so small now that everyone is using G suite apps for email, calendar, meetings, etc. Some are using Chromebooks. All are working remotely. And let us further assume that their newly hired Benevolent Dictator of All Things Infrastructure has been chest-deep in Linux for years and has no recent experience with AD, Microsoft products, Azure, and the like. Your first job is to get everyone migrated off of Google apps and onto Office. You're going to need AD, device management, and so on. What route would you take? Azure AD? On-prem AD in 2-3 physical locations, with a VPN? Something else?
For my next trick, watch me set up an entire phone infrastructure for a multinational corporation out of thin air.