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		sofaofthedamned on May 12, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hospitals across England hit by large-scale cyber-... Had exactly the same. 100 user system, Windows CALs and RDS licenses per user = a lot of money. Found only 40 users needed the CALs, rest were fine on Linux. Took the devil of a job to persuade them this, as the Microsoft rep told them they couldn't.

UK-AL on May 12, 2017 [–]

In organisation like the NHS something like active directory becomes almost mandatory.

Open sources equivalents are nowhere near as good.

sofaofthedamned on May 12, 2017 | [–]

Not the same thing I'm on about. Can't say too much, but was on a system where for majority of users they didn't even touch a Windows server or AD.

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