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AlexMUC
Copper Contributor
Sep 28, 2022

Recommendation for restructuring enviroment

Hi Community, 

 

not sure if this is the right place to ask this questions, but I hope someone can at least give me some hints.

 

My parents run a small company with 5 employees in total. Currently we run almost everything on prem, but the efford and costs are quite high and I want to change that until the end of year, by moving completly to the cloud.

 

Current setup:

DC Server 2016 with User, Client and GPO Managment

File Server 2016 with arround 1 TB of Data (could be reduced)

Business Application with MSSQL Server 2014

Limited VPN access through RAS for managment

Outlook/Exchange already moved to cloud (M365 Business Basic)

Backup with local NAS and sync to Cloud Drive

 

Goals:

No more on prem Servers

Business Application will be hosted by vendor

 

Requirements:

User Managment with controlled access from devices (conditional access)

GPO to restrict user/client functions

Fileshares with ACL

Automated Backup with limited management access

Azure Virtual Desktop Access on Mails and Fileshares

 

What do you recommend to use? Can Microsoft 365 Business Premium solve all my requirements?

How will to switch will look like? Remove Windows 10 client from AD and then sign in with Microsoft 365 Account?

 

Thank you for sharing any help. I only have experience with local infrastructures. Cloud is new to me.

 

Best Regards

Alex

 

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  • ArefHalmstrand's avatar
    ArefHalmstrand
    Steel Contributor
    Sep 28, 2022
    Hello Alex,

    Microsoft 365 Business Premium is very powerful for SMB (small and medium size business).
    I can almost feel that it might be a little to much to use Azure Virtual Desktop. Have you looked at using Intune to enroll the devices to the M365 ecosystem?

    In regards of the fileshare, what is ACL? Shouldn't SharePoint Online/Teams be good enough?

    I would recommend the switch to be just to recreate the structure in the cloud and not migrate.
    Because it is so few accounts/users. It should be better to create the structure in the cloud as new. It will give you the opportunity to identify small details that you might want to change. For example adding new attributes.
    • AlexMUC's avatar
      AlexMUC
      Copper Contributor
      Oct 04, 2022

      ArefHalmstrand 

      Thank you for the reply.

      I need the Virtual Desktop as we have employees without company devices. So we can't manage their personal devices with Intune.

       

      ACL = Access Controll List
      Sharepoint provides those, so this will be fine

       

      Recreating is not an issue. Any recommendations for the steps. As said, currently all clients a domain joined in with AD user accounts. In addition we use the Online Exchange through the O365 Basic. This already includes some Azure AD components.

       

      Thank you

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