This question was originally asked to the Reddit /r/ActiveDirectory community, great feedback.We've been doing directory synchronization solutions for quite a while but came across a request to verbatim copy a very large LDAP directory locally to save on bandwidth.Out came this new product that when pointed to a source part of a tree can copy everything under that to another ldap server. You...
My dev hardware is an external SSD (USB3) running Debian. I virtualized my dev environment using qemu/kvm.
I have several old laptops with no hard drives stationed at various offices. I just plug in, boot from the SSD and off to the races.
If I need a laptop while traveling, I just pull from the old laptops pile and remove it's hard drive. Good to go.
I do have minimum specs for the hardware: 1TB Samsung SSD (be sure the cable supports TRIM!) 16GB Memory (Virtualization) nVidia graphics (hard to find those non-hybrid types) decent screen size.
In addition to normal backups of the host & VM, I do a weekly image of the VM. This helps greatly against damage/loss of the SSD.
Hope this helps
I do have a specific beef with all the consolidated email providers. If one of them determines your SMTP server to be spam (false-positive), ALL of their clients now reject your email with little recourse for the admin. Just had this happen with a solution that rhymes with 365. Even their clients were clueless as to how to resolve it.