Just responding to a few posts concurrently: I can't comment about schools, but enterprises need a lot more than what is listed below. Pretty much everything needs to be able to be automated. And TBH 350 users is not an enterprise, it's a small/medium business. Somewhere at 10K+ seats are you starting to look at "enterprise", depending on industry/technology
In terms of Exchange vs Kerio: Kerio's a mailserver. Outlook+Exchange is a lot more than that, and offers a lot more features than Kerio does. You might not need those features, or know what they are, but that doesn't mean that they aren't useful to other people. There probably isn't a single large organisation in the world that doesn't run on Notes/Exchange/Groupwise or similar enterprise messaging/collaboration platform. Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 30 March 2012 2:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hyjack - Linux in the Enterprise/Schools (was RE: Sophisticated Phising attempt?) There are still some fairly basic hurdles that Linux needs to get over in order to make it in Enterprise/Schools: 1. Centralized management improvements: My boss wants everything to be point-and-click, so no CLI options would work here. If it can't be done in a GUI, she won't go for it... because what if I leave and nobody else knows how to fix things? And how do you deploy a printer to a lab? What about updating Firefox in an entire school? Thus far, Webmin might be the best current solution to this problem, but I can't webmin 20 computers at the same time as far as I know. 2. Network home folders: Everybody loves that their documents are automatically saved to the server... and we like not having to backup 1000+ desktops. Getting this to work in Linux is no cakewalk. Just getting Linux to login using a network LDAP server is difficult (Redhat's 'authconfig' utility is an exception, but still no network home folders). --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
