My father owns a small business (14 employees) and I am somewhat of the tech guy there among other things, but I am only there for small in-house problems. I don't have an IT background ( started and stopped studying IT back in the day) and for everything bigger we have an IT firm (networking and stuff)
As of now we have no option for home office and our IT firm is pretty much out of order these days.
The questions is: What is the easiest and/or fastest and/or cheapest way to get us started with the option of home office?
We have a server running Windows Server 2019 Standard and every office PC has Win 10 and is connecter per LAN cable to the server.
Firewall and general protection is F-Secure installed serverside and on every PC
What else do you need to know to help?
Normal stuff is done with Microsoft Office (Word/ Excel/ Outlook Exchange) but we have quite a lot of special software installed on some PCs like CAD software and the likes, so giving everyone a notebook that can run all this seems expensive. I was thinking something along the lines of installing a VPN and then using teamviewer? so everyone can access their PCs remotely from home with somewhat cheap notebooks? Does it work like that?
Something else entirely?