Re: Justifying the move from Novell to AD

[Christopher Jones <Christopher.Jones () UFV CA>]

Hi Todd,
 
Thank you and your higher-ups for the insight and advice.  It all helps.
 
Christopher Jones


> > > "Dergenski, Todd A." <TDergens () ODU EDU> 11/5/2009 5:22 AM >>>
Hello All:
   We are in the middle of a Novell to AD Migration with Exchange and Sharepoint thrown in for fun.  I asked one of the 
higher ups your question and this is his response:
  
"My comments would be mixed.  Now that we are 75% through the migration it is easy to reflect back on things we looked 
at and things we should have done differently.

It is blatantly apparent that Novell has far superior tools and services with respect to printing and environment 
management at a better cost. The greatest issue or benefit to a migration is integration/management with/of other 
application systems whether it is Exchange, Enterprise Vault, Communicator, SharePoint etc. If you don't intend on 
using all those and more, you should rethink your migration. The TCO will be in those areas. The kicker to the 
Microsoft world is the farther you go down that rabbit hole, the worse it gets.  Our Microsoft rep once stated that MS 
codes for 80% of full implementation and relies on third party vendors for the other 20%.  I believe him now.

For anyone that is thinking of migrating, these would be places to use care and develop extreme detail:
DDNS implementation
Printing Environment and Driver deployment / standards
Application replacement/transitioning
Desktop Migration - user environment, services
Communications to Community!!"

Please feel free to give me a call or shoot me a mail if you want more details.

Todd Dergenski
Old Dominion University
Senior Security Administrator
4700 Elkhorn Ave - Room 4300
Norfolk, Va, 23529 USA

(757) 683-4301
tdergens () odu edu 

From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of 
Christopher Jones
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 1:03 PM
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Subject: [SECURITY] Justifying the move from Novell to AD

We're in the process of planning a migration from Novell to AD.  We currently are building a business case for 
implementing AD.  For those of you who have recently completed a Novell to AD migration, I would appreciate any 
information/documentation you may have used to support the decision, particularly from a security and TCO standpoint.  
Thanks.

Christopher Jones
IT Security Administrator
University of the Fraser Valley