RE: [Fed-Talk] Active Directory Question
RE: [Fed-Talk] Active Directory Question
- Subject: RE: [Fed-Talk] Active Directory Question
- From: "Monahan, Jim (Contractor)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:29:33 -0500
Title: RE: [Fed-Talk] Active Directory Question
>> On Dec 20, 2005, at 12:04 PM, Ide, Douglas Mr USACFSC wrote:
>>
>> A question: Can someone from Apple tell us exactly what the
>> holdup is in getting official approval for Macs to connect to our AD domains?
>> We've been hearing for quite some time now that it would happen "soon." No
>> one tells us exactly what the hold up is. What's the problem? Why hasn't it
>> happened yet? Is it going to happen within the next month, six months, year?
>> "Soon" no longer really satisifies.
We are being told there is nothing inherently preventing the Mac from connecting to AD - Netcom is OK with it, to the extent they provide documentation for an 'approved baseline system' (including software) for both Windows and Mac platforms.
But Netcom is apparently leaving it up to local DOIMs to determine if they will allow it.
Local DOIMs, in turn, are passing the choice to local commanders.
At this site, the local Commander decided that, with the exception of one user (in graphics production) Macs are not mission critical, and ordered the rest of the Macs be taken off line and replaced with Windows boxes. Doim backed him...a few days later, I had gone from 8 OS X boxes to 2.
One GS14 was allowed to keep his LT as a secondary machine and internet access, but only with the understanding that if he had a problem, he would not be provided support of any kind.
The (graphics) user is allowed internet connection, but has no connectivity to the network shares or email system, except through OWA, and is allowed HW and SW support.
Jim Monahan
Network Systems Engineer
RSI, Inc, A CIBER Company
Army Training Support Center
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