OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

[Bryan O'Neal]

I just purchase a few cheep terminal service licenses from dell and it
worked just fine.  However you did have to manually set some parameters if
the user was under their default "mobile" group.  But most people just used
the remote web workplace to remote desktop through the firewall to their
desktop pc's somewhere on my network.  I purchase five licenses but I doubt
more then three people ever used it at a time. 

That said, unlike SharePoint and exchange it was not out of the box and
probably would not be considered in the list of requirements for an FLOSS
alternative.  But with NX and a few others it would be easy to do.

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Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin
(Was:Re:newhotness?)

Also Windows Small Business Server does not support Terminal Services, at
least in SBS 2k3 outside of remote desktop administration. and I think
compileing a good list of what SBS really does, and adding to that is a good
start.

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Bryan O'Neal <boneal at cornerstonehome.com>
wrote:
> I could code to save my life, but not well enough to start a whole
project.
> However, for something like a sbs solution I would think the real 
> talent would be in just creating a distro that had solutions pre 
> installed and configured with a handful of questions asked during 
> install. You would need LDAP & KRB that could be used for single sign 
> on for Linux, Mac, and windows desktops. You would need Samba for file 
> and print sharing (With ACLs). You would need an exchange like package 
> with cross platform clients. You would need a substitute for 
> SharePoint, terminal services, and a remote desktop gateway.  You 
> would need Apache with a wiki and a default intra company website.  
> You would need something like openvpn.  You would need central 
> management of desktops.  After that you would just need to have easy, 
> integrated, management counsel.  And I am sure their a half dozen 
> other items I am forgetting. I could coble together most of the 
> function, without the central management, client computer management, 
> SharePoint substitute, exchange substitute, and a few others. However 
> to get what I could replace as one unified package is way beyond me.  It
does seem that SuSE would probably give you the closest starting point.
>
> If anyone starts something I could probably help with some things.  I 
> have enjoyed my work with win/lin integration using windows as a 
> domain controller and would not mind taking a stab at having it work the
other way.
> Actually, where are SuSE and RedHat on their "domain" projects?  
> Anyone know?
>




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Stephen
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