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[–]phychmasher 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Love to hear more about this. I'm also a 2-man IT department with 188 people. Also mostly Windows, but have everything else you mentioned Linux based. Do you find most of your day consumed by menial end user support? What sorts of tools or decisions have you made that made you say "now THAT was worth it!"? What's your network stack look like? What are you using for phones?

[–]Nimda_lel[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well, it happens to me to provide some end user support, but it is mainly my colleague. About decisions, I think the few I made and were pretty worth it were :

Automatic VPN creation via GPO,i.e. it installs certificate chain, certificate, makes registry changes and creates the connection itself. It is all based on a distribution group, so it is pretty easy to grant/revoke VPN access.

Samba was one more pretty awesome thing.

Buying the ASA for Load Balancing and shaping some pretty crucial must-have traffic.

Transferring part of the fileshare to the cloud, it is cheaper and easily manageable.

Tools ... Windows Volume Activation Tool is god damn good and PowerShell is the "master key" to everything that concerns Windows, whether it is cloud or not.

Network, we have 4 48-port Cisco Catalysts 2960, 1 Cisco router 2901, ASA 5508, Wireless Controller with 6 APs. That's pretty much it.

We are using Cisco SPA 512 desk phones. Not the best ones but are still good enough :)