Office culture nuances… I enjoy them.

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I worked for a company where the previous IT dorks named the servers after startrek ships. It’s cute at home. Had to rename everything and readdress the whole organization.

Just make sure it’s HBA mode and it’ll be fine. Sometimes called IT mode.

Google IBM m1015 hba, there’s a ton on eBay for no money. It used to be TrueNAS go to. There’s newer HBAs that are faster, but I don’t think it will matter for you

If you do TN, you MUST read the manual and look at their ZFS intro guide. Trust me.

Have you confirmed you’re not breaking corporate user policy?

Everyone has mentioned Outlook.

Also, 2FA is standard now, like eating ass.

I have the old school utm 9, which was self managed. Now it’s a cloud managed. I haven’t used new cloud portal, sorry.

They still have free home use last I checked. I really like nfr, ce, home use companies.

Sometimes it’s for career progression or familiarity.

Just for SSO, might be easier ways, sure.

I think I’m the most ridiculous, but for the same career reasons as the rest:

Active directory, yes, plus: Azure cloud sync with entra active directory Hybrid exchange on prem and office/exchange online.

For better or worse, large enterprise isn’t going away from M$.

Also, I have transparent proxy sophos IPS, security Onion IDS, Trellix ePO, and other security products all being integrated for info security testing.

Not suggesting this is normal, just my test/dev playground I don’t have to worry about breaking.

All the descriptions are right and techniques. Microsoft sometimes refers to this is split-brain and their documentation.

Organizations that choose not to do that use an active directory specific subdomain like some of the other comments mentioned. Example: adds. Company.tld.

Computer1.adds.company.tld. Dc1.adds.cimoany.tld.

Others doing split domain are

Adds.company.internal

Also the cornerstone of enterprise, for better or worse at the moment.

What about virtualizing windows?

Only thing I know of is hyperv, but it’s not widely used I don’t think and MS is pushing azure $tack right?

Do hit the TrueNas forums. It’s very important if you’re not a ZFS pro.

I had to learn quite a bit before I got my setup right.

The FreeBSD people can be… abrasive at times, let it roll off your back if they are. TN is one of my favorites.