Ask HN: If WinServer2019 was made free to use tomorrow,would you start using it

Re:Ask HN: If WinServer2019 was made free to use tomorrow,wo... by chopraaa on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:06PM (#23793677)

You don't need Windows to use Active Directory.

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Re:Ask HN: If WinServer2019 was made free to use tomorrow,wo... by timw4mail on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:22PM (#23793895)

Active Directory is a Microsoft product, which, last I knew, only runs on Windows.

Active Directory implements LDAP, and there are serveral other LDAP implementations. Other OSes can use Active Directory as an LDAP server, sure.

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Re:Ask HN: If WinServer2019 was made free to use tomorrow,wo... by neverartful on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:17PM (#23793818)

Oh? Please elaborate. I always assumed Active Directory = Windows.

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Re:Ask HN: If WinServer2019 was made free to use tomorrow,wo... by closeparen on Friday July 10, 2020 @03:44PM (#23795552)

Decently common to have a cloud AD instance for your internal “users table” even if all the use cases are web/Mac/Linux.

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Re:Ask HN: If WinServer2019 was made free to use tomorrow,wo... by ta17711771 on Friday July 10, 2020 @02:18PM (#23794569)

Doesn't AWS have it as a service? Possibly also an OSS project?

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