Hey all, need to vent and need some advice. So we’re a smaller biotech of about 75 people. We’ve been a Google shop for 15 years. Our last IT director had some personal qualms with Microsoft so we’re solely a Linux/gworkspace/Mac shop. There was a change in upper leadership and M365 is now in the picture. I for one am a proponent. As the sole admin in our IT team than administers this and jamf and okta, gworkspace is the biggest pain in the ass. We’re also a biotech so lots of QA scrutiny and using gdrive and a repository and doc control platform has been painstaking. Additionally we’re running countless windows vms and parallels all segmented from the network because specific appliances run only windows applications or specific roles require apps the run on windows only .

Sorry for the long context. So our IT director left and I’m laying the groundwork to move our productivity suite to office. We have a new sr Linux storage admin and a new IT leader starting. Both are also very anti Microsoft and now the narrative of “just having m365 with no Microsoft endpoints still guarantees you ransomware” is being preached.

I’m at my wits end trying to bandaid and circumvent this anti Microsoft mindset. Someone tell me im not totally crazy here.