I also seem to remember seeing a paper at either LISA or annual tech
within the last year or so on centrally managing Mac systems.
David Lang
On Fri, 6 Apr 2012, Gilbert Wilson wrote:
Before going down the path of purchasing third party solutions to
manage your systems and/or firewalling your Macintosh population off
from the rest of your network like they're some redheaded stepchild
(no offense to Matt and our other redheaded colleagues!), take a look
through Apple's documentation for 10.6 server. Yes, we're on Lion
now, and many things have changed, but the 10.6 docs are more robust
and complete. You should also take a look at the following Apple
White Paper on managing 10.5 machines (again, it's changed a bit but
the foundation is still there):
http://images.apple.com/education/docs/Apple-ClientManagementWhitePaper.pdf
Historically, MCX is the basis for a lot of the configuration of the
Mac. In Lion there's a tool called "Profile Manager." Reading up on
the historical MCX stuff, Open Directory integration, and the new
Profile manager should help a lot.
http://www.apple.com/support/lionserver/profilemanager/
Another good resource is Google's Macintosh Operations Team. They're
on Google+ and have released a number of the tools they use as open
source.
Main Page:
https://plus.google.com/113021614344742332063/posts
Announcement with links to the tools they use:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/109088229817689076273/posts/M3zHnfEQMUw
Those links and terms should give you a great headstart and figuring
out what it is you need to do to get things humming along nicely.
Gil
@boyonwheels
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Tim Kirby <[email protected]> wrote:
Much to my surprise and contrary to many years of prior stance
to the contrary, a "fast track" project has appeared at $WORK
with a view to "supporting" Mac laptops as an alternative to
the Dell windows systems - certain area, in particular in
engineering, have seen a proliferation of people bringing in
their own systems and I guess there's a sense that the powers
that be would rather provide and support $WORK owned machines
than have a network full of home boxes. Things such as cost
and the like are understood and will be factored in so when
managers sign up for employees to have such machines they will
know the impact on their budget...
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.
And offline responses are fine if you don't want to admit
to it in public :)
TIA
Tim
ps. I actually use a MacBook Pro and know it well - I just
haven't spent much time looking at the enterprise
solutions out there and don't have much time to do the
legwork, hence I'm reaching out to the community...
--
Tim Kirby [email protected]
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