[Fed-Talk] PHD and other AD Binding questions
[Fed-Talk] PHD and other AD Binding questions
- Subject: [Fed-Talk] PHD and other AD Binding questions
- From: "Marcus, Allan B" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 20:11:32 +0000
- Thread-topic: PHD and other AD Binding questions
Hello,
I'm starting to work on documenting binding our Macs to our AD. We also use a NetApp for network home directories. I'm also the owner of a shiny new MacBook Pro, so I'm looking at options for mobile users, including portable home directories. I looked
into PHDs a few years back and ran into some insurmountable (no pun intended) issues. Can anyone tell me if these are resolved?
- It appears when connected to the network, the Mac used the network home as the "live" home dir, and then synced to the local home dir. This always struck me as silly since using the local home dir is much faster, and the Mac should back up periodically
to the network dir. Does the PHD still default to the network dir, or is the live home directory the local dir? Is there an option or default to set to specify which should be the "blessed" home dir?
- Syncing was really slow, as compared to say, rsync. Back when PHDs were announced, a 1GB home dir was large. Now a 30-50 GB home dir (or larger) is common. Is syncing reasonable fast?
- Also, when using a network home I had to add some MCX redirections for user cache and an Adobe cache folder. Is that still needed, or is Mavricks smart enough to use the local drive for cache. If it is, how is that done now?
- Finally, Mail and Outlook are both very very chatty to the disk. When local all is good. When the user's library folder is on a network drive, not so good. I solved this by putting the user's Library folder local and symlinking it in the home dir. I'm hoping
PHDs can solve this for me (see point 1 above). If not, any best practice suggestions?
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Thanks,
Allan Marcus
Chief IT Architect
Los Alamos National Laboratory
505-667-5666
email@hidden
If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got. [Albert Einstein]
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