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[-] aubertlone@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

I literally create AD groups as a small part of my job

Obviously, I can't go into any more details just in case. Yes, certainly Linux is King of the server world.

But your information is not up to date. We're not going to Azure anytime soon. Congratulations, you are making broad sweeping claims that just don't hold up to the least amount of investigation.

[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I think the point is that Microsoft is phasing out AD and Exchange by making the licensing costs prohibitively more expensive than just using their cloud identity, mail, and SaaS services.

We are still on prem for AD but that’s due to legacy software that requires it and will be that way for a while but cost will eventually have us on a cloud identity provider and it will probably be Azure

We already are on exchange online, the costs just don’t make sense to host exchange on premises unless you have a legacy reason too.

[-] aubertlone@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I really want to respond to your comment and go in more depth as to how my work situation is with AD groups etc etc

I just don't want to be careless and speak more about the particular infrastructure of my company's workflow than I need to

Suffice to say, we are continuing to move assets to a cloud hosting service. Due to our unique solution, we still require AD groups.

Funny enough, we need the AD groups for the cloud assets to run as expected. It's a different kind of authorization on-prem

[-] FlickOfTheBean@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

The way I (layman) read it, they seemed to be saying that it would be phased out by newer companies finding different alternatives, not that everyone is phasing it out as we speak.

Does this seem more realistic? Or just completely non-factual?

[-] aubertlone@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I wouldn't say non-factual.

I would just say that rule isn't universal. My company is moving assets into a cloud hosting service. And right now, AD are 100% needed for those assets to have authorization.

It was a different authorization solution on premises.

So basically, the opposite of what he was saying in my particular situation. Of course I can't speak to all companies.

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