I am looking into replacing an AD environment currently running on a windows SBS server with linux and samba4 instead. The exchange server has been migrated to office365 already so the only thing we currently use the SBS for is AD/DHCP/DNS/Shares, and the only one of those that I consider tricky to replace with a linux box is the AD component.
Pretty much the only thing we use the AD for is login credentials/permissions on client computers, AnyConnect VPN access credentials and security group management (access to certain shares based on groups etc.) and I understand that we can use linux for this as well, which would save us alot of license-hell hassle.
I was just wondering what some of the pitfalls for this can be, downsides, troubleareas etc? And if anybody has any experience with this migration and has written some documentation/blog/etc about how to best go about it and what to look out for?
I was thinking of using ubuntu server as the base since most documentation I have found is using some ubuntu version. Any other recommendations?
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