Small Studio - Firewall and Deployment suggestions

[leafie]

Hello folks!

My friends and I are starting a new company. It is a small art studio.

 

Are there any open source and easy to manage solutions for deploying OS images, software applications and security patches to our studio machines? Anything that allows pushing Group Policies would be amazing. We plan to have about three dozen W10/11 systems along with a few Mac stations.

 

Secondly, any suggestions for an easy to manage firewall and proxy would also be greatly appreciated. I am looking into pfsense at the moment.

 

Lastly, any advice you could share to someone who is not experienced in managing the entire IT stack by themselves would be wonderful! Any pitfalls I should be aware of, any resources or technology that I could learn to make my life a bit easier.

 

Thank you for any responses and for your time.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Microsoft wants you to use Azure these days. It has a deployment setup where you login and it sets it all up for you(or does it automatically from the factory). 

 

If you want local, you can use active directory and windows server to do all of this. 

With a few macs, I'd do it manually here.

 

Pfsense will work fine here.