education - bruxelles formation
migration from samba 3 to samba active directoryIntroduction
Bruxelles Formation was using Samba 3 and needed to migrate to Samba Active Directory. We therefore accompanied them in their migration and trained the system administrators in the uses of Active Directory.
3500 stations
3 sysadmin
10 domain controllers
4000 users
Issues
- Improve the comfort and productivity of IT staff
- Improve the security of information systems
Solutions
- Migrate the 10 domain controller servers
- Conduct a skills transfer on Samba AD operation to the system administrator team
- Switch the 3500 machines to the new domain without interruption to users
- Reconfigure services and devices that relied on Samba3-provided LDAP to rely on Samba-AD LDAP or the Kerberos service provided by Samba-AD
Benefits
- Better compliance with current technology standards
- Improved manageability of the 3500-machine, 4000-user fleet
- Save time and increase flexibility
Results
- A seamless migration for all 4,000 users
- System administrators trained on existing technology
- A fleet in current technology standards
- A secure fleet
Video feedback
Some of our clients agreed to talk about their experience in pictures. Find them in the dedicated Youtube playlist: