I’m faced with a situation where a small organization might be expanding from a half dozen to a dozen users in three years. Their long term vision is rather ambitious, and (depending on their success in the next few years) they could expand to a significantly larger workforce in 5 years or so.
To make a long story short, It’s conceivable that I could be called on to drastically expand their network and install completely new systems and services in five years time. I don’t like the thought of creating a domain and migrating a network from a workgroup based solution to a domain environment on top of attempting a expansion / service addition project.
It seems to me that even if they never grow past 6 individuals, it can’t hurt anything to switch them to a domain (Once I move past the initial terror-ladened task of moving workgroup accounts to domain accounts… :'( ). Anyone have thoughts on tiny domain environments and when it’s a good time to think about good ol’ DCPromo?
Thanks,