On 4/6/2012 11:26 AM, Tim Kirby wrote:
The more interesting aspect is what constitutes "support"; the windows guys perspective they wax lyrical about group policies, imaging systems etc. etc. ... which leads me to ask whether any of this body have any useful experience in "managing" such machines. I'm open to pointers to useful resources, but I'm particularly interested in anyone who is actually "doing" this at some level.
My experience is very old in this regard, but when I was at BBN, we were one of the 10 largest Mac sites in the world, right after NASA if I recall. Of course that was in the days of OS8, before Macs became Unix inside. Our IT folks seemed to manage them just fine.
Current Macs come through with support for active directory, sharepoint, exchange, windows file sharing, all that stuff. If you're running a mixed windows/linux environment, they fit in just fine (maybe easier than the linux boxes).
For what it's worth, you might consider asking the tech folks at your local university or school district - Apple has a LOT of tools for locking down and managing machines in the educational environment (to my wife's chagrin, she's a teacher). I expect your local Apple enterprise sales account rep., or the small business rep. at a local Apple store could point you at both tools and at folks who are managing Macs.
Also, not sure why, but I came across this the other day, but I came across this: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Puppet_Mac_Osx - seems like at least one configuration management engine has a Mac client.
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