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Apple posts seminar for Integrating Active Directory
Recently, Apple posted a new online seminar (linked from enterprise Apple Store pages) entitled "Best Practices for Integrating Mac OS X into Active Directory." This seminar will show registered participants how to deploy machines running OS X into existing Active Directory setups.Apple lists several things that are shown in the online seminar, some of which include:
- Integrating an Active Directory environment into Mac OS X
- Using the Active Directory plug-in in Mac OS X
- Configuring home directories (includes how to do this with mobile users)
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Joseph said 7:01PM on 6-06-2008
Wow, Subscribed and watching. As a sys admin, I am grateful for this.
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Mike said 9:37PM on 6-06-2008
Wow, Apple is REALLY pushing AD support with the iPhone and Leopard. I have to say though, it's evident that Apple hasn't been focusing their attention on AD completely. What I'd like to see would be an AD manager on Macs(no command line required), as well as an easier way to implement schemas(perhaps a one-stop installer for Windows 2003/2008) to support all of Macs permissions. I think Apple will eventually support this. If Apple is able to nail AD down by 10.6, they'll have a lot of people banging on their door after M$ is pushing them to move to Vista.
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Mike said 11:29PM on 6-06-2008
We've actually had no end of grief from the AD plugin in Leopard. Most of the time we can't even bind. When we do, AD accounts won't log in. It's confusing because the Tiger clients work great.
In the end we licensed Centrify DirectControl. We'll see how that works out.
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Chantal said 1:00AM on 6-07-2008
Very usefull information. Thanks!
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hoberion said 4:06AM on 6-08-2008
our active directory ends with .local so we have huge issues with name resolving since osx sees .local as a bonjour local network
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