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Paul2504

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Hi all
Reading through these threads it appears that there a number of people here that know their stuff. Unfortunately for me I do not, hence my visit here.
Many moons ago a mate of mine installed red hat on a small server for me, then he ran away to Aus. Another guy later installed Clear OS on a newer machine that basically serves three desktops in a small office. This machine is now giving problems and my guy tells me that i should give up on a small sever and go office 365.

My requirements are: mail and a lot of of sending and receiving of documents in the medical aid and insurance industry. The server is also used to house all the documents and for us to be able to access them. Backups are done to the cloud and onto portable hard dives.

What is your opinions please and what options can you suggest. My knowledge of servers is extremely limited and we will always need outside help from a knowledgeable server expert.

Two of the office machines run on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS but one machine is on Win 8 as Pastel and e filing has to run on a Win machine.

Would really appreciate your thoughts, bucks are tight as with everyone and I don't want to make a costly wrong decision.

Thank you
 
for mails go office 365 route , it is less head aches and admin on your part , for the file server , use a simple samba server , for doc storage /printing
 
Agree with O365, it should also allow you to see who is doing what with the documents. medical aid and insurance can be classed as sensitive information (POPI act). Office 365 does have South African data centers.
 
Office 365 for mail definitely.

Is you need for onsite storage completely necessary?
 
CT_Biker said:
Office 365 for mail definitely.

Is you need for onsite storage completely necessary?
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Not completely but a lot more convenient if fibre/internet is down

Thanks very much for the replies, will do my homework on 365 and the options. :)
 
Just a quicky, I was told 365 only works on Win 10, is this true ?
 
Paul2504 said:
Not completely but a lot more convenient if fibre/internet is down

Thanks very much for the replies, will do my homework on 365 and the options. :)
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Onedrive sync would have any files available locally assuming there is enough local storage.

So for times that internet is down should be mostly okay.
 
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