Redmond Meets Cupertino Mac and PC Integration
Matt Darby Systems Administrator - Kambala Responsible for overall Network At Kambala for 8 years previously at Oz Systems Administrator - Kambala Responsible for overall Network At Kambala for 8 years previously at Oz
Gary Hastings Technical Services Manager - Kambala Responsible for technical support At Kambala for 5 years previously at University Technical Services Manager - Kambala Responsible for technical support At Kambala for 5 years previously at University
About Kambala K-12 School of approx. 960 Students Cross platform School 400 Mac, 150 PC’s K-12 School of approx. 960 Students Cross platform School 400 Mac, 150 PC’s
Kambala Authentication Structure OD Master Server Home Folder Storage Mac Desktop OD Master Provides Authentication and Management Apple X-Serve Apple X-RAID AD Server PC Desktop AD Provides Authentication and Management Separate directory Servers Combined Home Folder Storage
Scenario One... All PC School - Need to add a few Mac’s AD ServerPC Home Directory Server PC Mac
Built in Active Directory Plugin Applications/Utilities/Directory Access
Built in Active Directory Plugin Applications/Utilities/Directory Access
Management under Scenario One Minimal Difficult to update Limited Options Minimal Difficult to update Limited Options.... but can be done
User Templates Hard Drive/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj
Scenario Two... All PC School - Need to add a few Mac’s AD ServerPC Home Directory Server PC... but need a little more control Mac OD Master Server Apple Server
Scenario Two Apple Server can be ‘lower spec’ eg MacMini OD Master Contains NO users Full management Per Computer / Computer Group Per AD Group Apple Server can be ‘lower spec’ eg MacMini OD Master Contains NO users Full management Per Computer / Computer Group Per AD Group
Sometimes referred to as “Golden Triangle” Get a copy of... es/AD-OD-2.1.pdf Get a copy of... es/AD-OD-2.1.pdf
Lets have a look and see how it is all done....
Contact Details Matt : Gary :
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