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by merb 3462 days ago
Exchange and AD would be huge. Unfortunatly Exchange needs IIS and probably an AD server.
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We replaced all our AD servers with SAMBA4, so much more reliable and while AD/LDAP is still a nightmare of an architecture having it running on standard Linux servers means it's much easier to monitor, backup, snapshot, introspect and it far out performs windows based DCs.
SAMBA has had an excellent track record of joining mixed OS environment AD forests for years.
IIS already runs on Drawbridge since a while AFAIK.