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.

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ordinateur

3500 managed workstations

localisation

1 location

personne

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.

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Estimated gains using SAMBA

Demonstration

Group demo

07/11/2024 : 10h30 - 11h30

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