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In this case, they were probably using AD just because of Exchange, so if you want to ditch Exchange for Gmail, it's an odd choice to use AD as your identity pr
by justizin 13y ago
In this case, they were probably using AD just because of Exchange, so if you want to ditch Exchange for Gmail, it's an odd choice to use AD as your identity provider, esp if you're a company known for wanting as little on-premise IT as possible.
- EvanAnderson 13y agoI would guess that they're using Active Directory because they have Windows PCs to manage. AD, arguably, provides a _lot_ of value if you have any quantity of Windows-based PCs that you want to manage centrally. I haven't seen any compelling third-party hosted offering to replace the SSO and Group Policy functionality in Windows client OS's that AD enables. Maybe when Samba4 reaches maturity that will change.