Use Untangle as small business server instead of Windows
As the post title implies, I'm looking to remove Windows Server from my network and use Untangle more. I like Untangle, it's served us well for 10 years now, and while I can't prove it, I think it's saved our bacon more than once by prohibiting malware from going outside our network from an internal computer.
Current setup:
- Untangle, latest version, at the network edge. Network has around 30 computers/users.
- Internally, UT is the gateway (plus all the other UT tasks like antimalware, etc) with Windows providing DHCP, DNS, Active Directory services.
- We use Office365 for everything related to productivity - email, internal chat with Teams, file server also within Teams, Word, Excel, Planner, etc.
Really, the only thing I need Windows Server Active Directory for (I think) is for routine user login to their Windows 10/11 computers. UT could do everything else, and since we barely use Group Policy (and if we need it, I can do it from a Win10 workstation), I'm questioning why I have Windows Active Directory servers (and CAL's) at all. And that's one of my questions - is there a way for UT to do the user login services too?
I heard too that Office365/Microsoft365 has some form of user management, so I wonder if I could use Untangle + Office365 as a solution to remove the Windows Server Active Directory servers. Haven't had much time to look at that.
Thoughts? Thanks in advance for any feedback.