What is Workgroup?
This article is just my personal opinion over the year of experience.
Depend on the objective you required,
- Is security a primary concern?
- Is there a competence administrator in your company?
- What is downtime you can afford when the domain controller server is down?
- Do your staffs have sufficient computer usage training?
- How many computer will be accessing shared resources at the same time?
A workgroup is meant for less than 10 computers in the network. In the past, only 10 computers can assess to a single at the same time. I did not try on the new Windows 10 workgroup. Is it still the same limitation, I will need to try?
In Workgroup, every computer is a peer. It is also called the peer-to-peer network.
Advantages:
1. Easy to manage and setup (Maybe)
2. Low setup cost
3. No need a system administrator stationed in the office
Disadvantages:
1. As the managing of computers is done individually. As the computer user may have full access right. Updating of Windows security patch and anti-virus is hard to monitor and push down.
2. Posed security when shared folder is unable to have full control.
3. Very hard to secure confidential in a shared folder.
I will add on more point in the future.