Customer case
MIGRATION FROM SAMBA 3 TO SAMBA ACTIVE DIRECTORY
EDUCATION – BRUXELLES FORMATION
Why and how to implement Samba Active Directory on an IT estate ? Bruxelles Formation explains its experience: challenges, benefits, results, …
Presentation
Bruxelles Formation was using Samba 3 and needed to migrate to Samba Active Directory. We supported them in their migration and trained the system administrators in the uses of Active Directory.
3500 managed workstations
1 location
3 sysadmin
Challenges
- Improve the comfort and productivity of IT staff
- Improve the security of information systems
Solutions
Perform a migration
- Migrate the 10 domain controller servers;
- Conduct a skills transfer on the operation of Samba AD to the team of system administrators;
- Switch the 3500 machines to the new domain without interruption to users ;
- Reconfigure services and devices that relied on the LDAP provided by Samba3 to rely on Samba-AD LDAP or the Kerberos service provided by Samba-AD.
SAMBA’s contribution to Bruxelles Formation
- Better compliance with current technological standards
- Improved manageability of fleet of 3500 machines and 4000 users
- Time savings and greater flexibility
Estimated gains using SAMBA
A seamless migration for 4,000 users ;
System administrators trained on the technology in place ;
A park that meets today’s technological standards ;
A secure park ;
The decision to implement Samba Active Directory was an obvious one for Bruxelles Formation to ensure the security of its IT assets.
Estimated gains using SAMBA