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by SargeDebian
979 days ago
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A: you don't nee a licensed office seat to be a user in AD B: For warehouse operations, not everyone needs to be a user in AD C: The comment above said there are a million employees with 2-3 degrees of separation to finance in terms of exchanging spreadsheets, which is what I responded to. |
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Do you agree that every employee needs work email access and some sort of a user account (for managing their benefits, interacting with payroll systems, etc.)?
If yes, then sure, it can be technically accomplished without AD. However, AD is an extremely well-suited system for managing incredibly large swaths of work accounts. And what’s the other option, running two separate user account management systems in parallel? That’s an insane amount of overhead managing and making sure it actually works. On Amazon scale, it would be a ton of money spent with very questionable results. Things aren’t that simple, and AD is an extremely powerful tool that can handle quite a lot of really quirky and intense scenarios.
> there are a million employees with 2-3 degrees of separation to finance in terms of exchanging spreadsheets
Finance employees are far from the only ones needing tools like spreadsheets/powerpoint/etc. What do you think devs use for writing and sharing design docs? What about presentations (which are used by pretty much everyone working in the corporate)? What about email? Do you think warehousing doesn’t use those at all?
Office is just straight up a good overall deal. You pay for a seat and you get all the Office tools (word/excel/etc), Teams, AD, Outlook, Onedrive/Sharepoint, etc. If your user touches even one of those, it makes sense to just say screw it and get a license seat for everyone, even from just the overhead costs perspective.
I am not saying that MS Office is the end-all. My current place uses Google offerings instead, but the general idea is the same.