SO for the last 7 years, I have been running the IT Department for a private school, PreK and church. I have reduced the server count from 6 physical machines to one Hyper-V machine with 5 VMs: 3 DCs, 1 windows storage server and 1 library linux machine that is no longer in production. We also have a Lenovo M90 series running as a domain controller. We run Google services in our env since we are a GAFE school along with a bunch of Chromebooks. We allow teachers to choose from 3 mid-grade machines (2 Lenovo's/one MacBook Pro) which come preinstalled with our image. Printers are the only thing we map anymore. We only used a map drive that has become a Wild West of movies and music for teacher sharing, lol. We have Google password sync turned on for gmail. We have windows Office 365 sync installed for those products and syncs thru Active Directory. Everything is backed up by Keep-IT in the cloud. Our local backup is a hybrid of a 2TB SSD drive that I carry home and a cloud sync that we use.
I really don't want any Microsoft servers here anymore, to be honest. Gone are my days of having to worry about local shares and having to edit KiXtart scripts from the NT document manual. Since I have a 3/4 class load for most grade levels and server as the registrar for the school, my IT needs to be sleek and smooth running.
Does AZURE offer any type of area where I can suck up one of my DC's, point our internet to that and boom...no more MS servers?
I really don't want any Microsoft servers here anymore, to be honest. Gone are my days of having to worry about local shares and having to edit KiXtart scripts from the NT document manual. Since I have a 3/4 class load for most grade levels and server as the registrar for the school, my IT needs to be sleek and smooth running.
Does AZURE offer any type of area where I can suck up one of my DC's, point our internet to that and boom...no more MS servers?