What is the best way to organize the work of an office for 10 people?

Question

Work organization

Dear, tell me, how can you organize the work of a small office?
It would be desirable to forbid to users everything! ))
In general, the bottom line is that you need a web, office, IP telephony + proxy to close all unnecessary
Now this zoo is connected mainly via wifi, on win XP + 7 machines, there is no server, a shared folder is shared on one of the machines and a shared printer… =) I also think of leaving Windows, I don't see much point in it nowadays (especially for the designated tasks).
Advise, pliz, on what is easier to organize the work and where to read about it.
I want to use this example to learn something new and useful in the form of organizing an office network. Hands seem to grow from the right place, I just haven’t come across this topic before.

Answer 1

terminal server
squid
thinstation

Answer 2

Do you work on a full-time basis, or an incoming admin? Pay on the fact, or salary? The type of activity of the organization - services or production?
1. Leaving Windows on workstations does not make sense, with your requests and, sorry, experience.
Software will cost less than the time of a specialist who is able to drive a link to Firefox favorites for all employees and promptly update it. Also, do not forget - experiments in production = risks = lost profits + losses.
2. If you want to be useful, save. You can save:
Funds by introducing new technologies like virtualization or optimizing printing costs;
Time - optimizing the workflow process and routine actions, reducing the cost of transactions;
My experience shows that it is absolutely not important for a business how much a solution costs, the main thing is that it justifies the investment. When you correctly present the commensuration of the cost of risks, and the cost of closing risks, you are given the go-ahead to launch the project.
3. Anticipate wants and needs.
Today you have a task - to restrict access to the network. You have a choice between Squid and Forefront TMG\Kerio Winroute\Traffpro. You choose Squid+Iptables because it's free (doesn't mean cheap), and tomorrow management wants to see graphs and reports on employee activity on the network. You are racking your brains on how to implement it, wasting time = money, delaying project deadlines = a shadow on your qualifications. You choose for example Kerio or Traffpro, after 10 minutes the report would be at the head of the mail. He is happy, you get a profit in the form of a bonus, well, or “Thank you!” and a place on the honor roll =)
Specifically, I would advise you to look towards Windows Server 2008 r2 + Windows 7 + Kerio Winroute (or Traffpro) + Kerio Connect (or a Google-based solution).
All of the above works on a Windows basis, is easily virtualized and fits into the framework of 4 Windows Server Ent licenses and one HP DL 320, if all this is good to virtualize.

Answer 3

put linux (debian or ubuntu) on working cars.
on a server, it is also a router, 2 network, squid and iptables.
all

Answer 4

I also think of leaving Windows, I don’t see much sense in it nowadays (especially for the designated tasks).

If Windows is licensed, then what's the point of making all this leapfrog with the transition to Linux? Paid, working ... what's the point of touching? But to assemble a Linux server with a squid is the most

learn something new and useful

Here is an ancient, but simple as a door article on setting up a squid with user authentication. If you wish, you can dig up a lot of things on the network on configuring squid. Without knowing the level of your qualifications, it is quite difficult to advise something specific.

Answer 5

What about an office PBX?

Answer 6

At the expense of IP telephony again. Within your organization, you can try to choose an iron solution based on Linksys, or D-link, but I advise you to look at various kinds of PBX based on Asterisk. Of the goodies - call statistics, voice greeting, button menu, call recording, routing logic, etc.
Again, if the qualification does not allow, choose from domestic developments with support. Digging around in asterisk configs is not the most pleasant experience =)