Yes, and if you are the sole sysadmin that makes changes to WGM/policies & are diligent about tracking your changes, super. In an enterprise environment there's no central reporting feature with WGM . One can utilize mcxquery to find out what policies are applied to the client but that wd have to be done locally/polled into a syslog. Very inefficient, IMHO.
For something as simple as dropping a file on a desktop, or, as is currently being discussed on the OsX Server forum, changing file associations, extensive scripting is involved. Again goes to show that there's very little development efforts made by Apple in the enterprise arena to facilitate central mgmt of their machines/OS. -----Original Message----- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 5:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix I think sdewilliam is saying that there is no modelling capability. GPMC lets you pick a user, a computer and an AD site, and dynamically layers all the policies at all levels that will affect the user, and gives you the resulting effective settings (after group filtering, WMI filtering etc). The advanced GPM also lets you do check-in/check-out, versioning control, workflow etc. Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 8 September 2010 2:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mac and Windows mix Perhaps I'm misunderstanding: Isn't that exactly what Workgroup Manager does in Open Directory? There are plenty of settings which can be applied to individual Macs, users, user groups and computer groups. ----- Original Message ----- From: sdewilliman [mailto:[email protected]] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:41:34 -0700 Subject: Re: Mac and Windows mix > Precisely, with OD /WGM there¹s no central mgmt console whereby an > admin can tell which/what policy is applied to what group. > Administration easily becoems a nightmare without 3rd party mgmt > software such as Centrify. ~ 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
