Basic setup for a office on a shoestring

[Jet-Fighter7700]

Hi Guys,

Thought to ask the experts here, what's most important to them to achieve some sort of centralised control.

Here's what I have to work with.
50 person office, very small, got internet, got VoIP, and got a CRM system. Mostly cloud based as far as I can tell. Mostly using OneDrive for storage of files.

No SERVERS, none at all, and will never get or intend to get servers or any sort of corporate infrastructure for very good reasons.

What is doable here?
For antivirus?
For image management? For patch management,
for anything approaching a domain with servers.

Bear in mind, shoestring budget, no servers or any physical equipment, besides a firewall and some switches. And an internet connection with maybe a fallback to another provider.

What is the easiest and simplest way to set everything up to get some level of centralised control?

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

anybody have any good ideas here?

 

[Telasera]

Hi Op,

What is the end goal you are trying to achieve?

Are your desktops running Windows? .. what version as only pro can be used on AD?

Most AV providers allow some soft of centralised management interface however this is often limited to their business packages and can be cloud based on on prem at scale.

As for imagine management I assume you are referring to OS deployment images of of the desktops, you can use some opensource systems like Fog to provision desktops with DHCP and PXE.

I understand Azure offers a free tier for Active Directory should you wish to explore that option.

Bear in mind that having everything hosted offsite will render your staff completely offline during an internet outage so you may want to invest in a HA setup for your internet connection if don't already have this.

I hope this helps.