Windows 7 is easy to deploy on a mass scale if you utilise technologies such as the WAIK and wimpe to automate the whole process. or if you have a windows server setup WDS or RIS and you can hammer out automated install images allay long quickly and without user input. as for the domain controller depends what money the company has if the purse strings are tight then I would use Linux. And setup domain authentication via LDAP, web min is supposed to be good for undertaking such tasks might be worth researching or I would go the hardcore way and learn how to integrate Linux with windows from scratch
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On 7 Apr 2012, at 13:20, "Bryn Jones" <hantslug@???> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm bouncing round London and having done some work for a charity while I'm here I have an idea to sort out something out for them.
>
> They have a windoze network (without domain just workgroup) with (now) about 12 windoze 7 (oh god it was painful installing those!!!) client machines, acting as standalone workstations.
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> I'd like to implement a domain type infrastructure for them..... but of course without Windoze SBS (barf). Mainly for authentication - Sit at any machine on LAN and log in as yourself, get your stuff.
>
> I have some ideas but they're not great!!! (all my others are awesome of course).
>
> Thoughts?, suggestions?, general derision?, want to look at my cute dog?.
>
> Cheers
> Bryn (whose flat is being refurbed and is squatting in Hackney)
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