White papers on security benefits of domain vs workgroup?

Hi,
I"m a big believer of having a domain for businesses once they have 3 or more computers sharing files, and having employees with a medium or high turnover rate.
I have a client with 8 workstations and while I have convinced them to purchase a Windows 2012 R2 Essentials server and add all their machines to a domain, they aren't convinced that the security was worth the expense (Server was under $2000), and all the
workstations already had Pro OS's, so cost was not significant.
Are there any good white papers on how a domain can help protect from various security standpoints?
Thanks!
--Kent

Hi Kent,
AD has many features that IT Administrator might benefit from.
The first ofwhich is Centralized Authentication. All user accounts are managed in a single location. This means that you can use your credentials among any of the machines in the environment.
Another item this allows is better security for sharing resources. Security groups are very useful for targeting access to resources such as file shares.
Group policy allows to you enforce settings across a number of machines or users. This would allow you to set different policies for users logging into the Terminal servers vs users logging
into their workstations.
As for the users, I think you can convince them via AD provide the shared resource and Centralized Authentication features.
By the way, if you decide to use Active Directory, I would recommend to order 2 servers, one is primary and another one is as back up.
This ensures that you do not have a single point of failure for your Active Directory Domain.
Best Regards,
Elaine
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