A school environment is not the same as a public company environment. Compliance to <insert your favorite standard here> and reporting on said compliance or non-trivial issues for public companies or private companies subject to other regulations. There are a wealth of tools for managing these issues in a Windows environment, can the same be said of the Mac environment?
-Jeff Steward On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Matthew W. Ross <[email protected]>wrote: > Macs are not the burden you make them sound to be. > > Integrating a Mac into a windows network is never going to be painless; the > two systems are inherently different. If what you want is a Windows > experience from your Mac, install Windows. > > Now not everybody likes MacOS X, but the same can be said for Windows. > Insert the problem of subjective preference here. > > Personally, I love working on my iMac, and managing the other Macs in our > district is very easy if you use the provided Apple tools: Mac OS X server, > Open Directory, and Apple Remote Desktop. > > Then again, I hate how a Mac _can_ cost 2x as much as a comparable PC. I do > like that software upgrades are cheaper for Mac, but I don't like how apple > drops support for anything that is not the current generation or the > previous one. If you're 2 generations back, you're out of luck. > > What can a Mac do that a PC Can't? Nothing. But I would argue that > competition is one of the pillars of innovation. Without Mac OS X competing > against Windows, what would Windows look like today? > > > --Matt Ross > Ephrata School District > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: James Hill > [mailto:[email protected]] > To: NT System Admin Issues > [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 > 19:28:49 -0700 > Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix > > > > We have pretty much eliminated all of the Mac's here. > > > > We didn't have 3rd party products to manage them so they always required > so > > much manual interaction. Any global change we made we could easily > automate > > with PC's thanks to group policy etc but it was always a manual change > for > > the Mac's. > > > > They really aren't a corporate product imo. You only have to look to > Apple > > for a corporate grade management solution to realise that it doesn't > exist. > > > > They do indeed need patching (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222) and > there > > is AV products for them. Symantec has one for example. Personally I > think > > the day is coming when someone will write a decent bit of malware/virus > for > > them and 99% plus will get caught out by it. There is a very misguided > > opinion amongst the Apple community that they are safe. Apple's false > > advertising only strengthens this. The facts are that Mac's are more > > vulnerable than the PC world http://www.crn.com/security/226200083 > > > > More importantly, what is the need for the Mac's in the first place? For > us > > they were only sued for Adobe CS, which runs just fine on PC's. In fact > > these days Adobe is more behind the PC world than the Mac. For example, > > 64bit Photoshop was first on PC, had to wait for CS5 for Mac to get it. > > That's without going into the Flash debate :) > > > > > > > > > > > > From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Saturday, 4 September 2010 6:07 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Mac and Windows mix > > > > I would like to hear from those of you who have a mixed Windows/Mac > > environments: How do you handle management of the diverse environment? > > Presumably with Mac's there is no patching or AV. Can you use GPO's on > them > > in any fashion (wondering if there's some add-in to allow equivalency). > > David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER > > NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION > > (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: > > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to > > [email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]> > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: > > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
