On 9 Mar 2008, at 00:38, "John C. Welch" <email@hidden> wrote:
Sharepoint is indeed a nice evironment. For Windows users, using
Windows
Office and IE on Windows.
If you are on a Mac, the "richness" of the Sharepoint environment is
so
degraded so as to be more properly called "crippled". If your "few
hundred"
mac users are satisfied with a crippled enviroment, or doing all
sharepoint
work via VMs or Remote Desktop Client, then more power to you. But
lets be
honest here: Sharepoint for !Windows users is a vastly different
environment
than Sharepoint for Windows users.
The few hundred Macs are not the same as those using the WSS3 stuff.
That was for the team I work in with everyone on Windows machines or
Macs with Windows in VMs for Outlook etc. The pilot to integrate the
Macs is for secondary schools (K12 in USA terms) that already have AD
and hundreds of Windows machines.
Centrify is a good solution, but it's also not cheap, although
depending on
your specific needs, may work quite well to you, as long as you keep
in mind
that having a "one GPO for all clients" environment is not going to be
realistically attainable.
We'll have separate GPO's for the Macs. We're talking to Centrify
about price. We're also going to test the Golden Triangle, Jamf
Casper Suite, ARD3 and Faronics Deep Freeze. We'll probably need the
whole lot in different combinations depending on the authentication
methodology in use at particular sites. For the immediate site AD is
king though.
