I have a small office with 4 workstations (windows with local accounts) and a NAS storage.
What is the best way to connect all computers together so anyone can login on other’s computers and have access to his personal data (documents, outlook, calendar)?
And if someone changes password on his station it should be updated on all stations.
I think I’m looking for Active Directory + office 365 but i’m not entirely sure.
Will I need a separate server for it?
Answer
You’re too small to do Active Directory correctly on-prem.
Assuming your workstations are Windows 10, you can use Azure AD Join to join the PCs directly to the Azure AD cloud service that is powering your Office 365 environment. You will have common identities that can be used across all joined devices and can opt into using Intune for management at a later date when you grow to a large enough size.
This will not give you seamless access to your NAS, so you will need to maintain separate accounts local to the NAS, or move all of the NAS data into Office 365 via OneDrive, SharePoint, Office 365 Groups, or a combination of them.
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