So yes but... there are still no good alternatives to Active Directory in the context of managing IT for an organization with 10,000+ users, thousands of endpoints, and millions of files which need to maintain proper association with individual user accounts and be delivered to specific endpoints on demand.

Google Workspace is the most feature-rich competitor, but it is a pale shadow of the level of IT infrastructure that Microsoft's ecosystem provides.

For Microsoft to fade away, someone needs to build a competing large-scale IT management system that provides the same kind of functionality that Active Directory does.

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Okta. We're looking at replacing AD with it.

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

I've also looked at jumpcloud and a few other IDPs with device management too. But okta is such a pain and expensive. They've tried to burn me on their other products

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago

I must have missed the point where Okta has a joinable directory service with an extendable schema and GPO like functionality too.

[–] NaibofTabr 3 points 2 days ago

Ah, but OKTA only provides authentication?

How does that replace the infrastructure management?

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