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<div> I want to give somebody money.</div><div><br></div><div>We want to move off a Windows PDC onto a Linux Samba Active Directory Domain Controller.</div><div>I know a bit about Active Directory and a bit about Samba,</div><div>but I do not have the time to learn more (on production systems with real users).</div><div><br></div><div>Whom do I know, whom do you know, or where can I go,</div><div>to find somebody to contract the work and knowledge transfer to?</div><div><br></div><div>Starting from a Win2k3 (EOL and unsupported now) PDC</div><div>notably serving for Windows client authentication and supporting an Exchange server.</div><div><br></div><div>Moving to Samba Active Directory domain controller</div><div>providing domain services for Windows clients</div><div>and authentication for a Zimbra email/groupware server.</div><div><br></div><div>Migrating from Exchange to Zimbra is the next phase of the project.</div><div>Right now what we need most is the Active Directory and Samba expertise.</div><div><br></div><div>Referrals or suggestions? Bueller?</div><div><br></div><div>P.S. I really will get out to a meeting one of these days,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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