Not sure exactly from your e-mail what your requirements are. Also not sure if this would fit well with your environment, but as far as mobile work force, and different OS versions (Windows, iOS, Android....) Citrix is a great solution. Not cheap, and not easy, but it works well and resolves almost all the issues. As long as there is a Citrix receiver for the device/OS you are good to go.
YMMV Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Achitect I, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Services Tel 610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 christopher_bod...@glic.com The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America www.guardianlife.com From: "Charlie Kaiser" <charl...@golden-eagle.org> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Date: 07/23/2012 09:34 PM Subject: Looking for options... Mobile workforce and central resources We're looking for some options for a client with what is to us a new set of challenges and requirements that will no doubt become more prevalent with other clients over the next year or so. Client is a business with around 75 users. Client business is real-estate related, so most data is somewhat sensitive but not secret or regulated. Client management allows/encourages/requires remote work. Over half the workforce is on laptops. Most users have either Android or iphone mobile devices for email. AD domain, file server, LOB app (on 2 RDP servers) and Exchange 2010 are hosted with small hosting company. Main office has a DC locally, VPN'd to hosting site. Email is accessed via Outlook Anywhere. Remote users are on laptops (XP and W7, a few Macs) that are not domain-joined. Most of them never see the office. As you can imagine, the combination of local user accounts, domain creds, and a LOB app that is not LDAP-aware makes identity management a PITA. This has been in place for about 6 months now (we just inherited it recently) and today all the passwords expired. Let's just say our help desk phone is a puddle of molten plastic... I'm figuring there must be a way to make it easier to manage the remote user credentials stuff without implementing a fire-up-on-demand VPN. I've taken a very brief look at DirectAccess, and while it looks like it does a lot of what I'm envisioning, the requirements for 2008R2 and W7 could make this a showstopper or at least a major hurdle for this or other clients. I know I'm not the only one out there with clients in this configuration. In the past, I'd have said VPN, domain joined, etc. or everything through RDP. But I'm thinking there's got to be other solutions. Anyone doing anything like this? What's working for you? What's NOT? Thanks... *********************** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *********************** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ----------------------------------------- This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
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