- MACOS SERVER OPEN DIRECTORY ACTIVE DIRECTORY PRO
- MACOS SERVER OPEN DIRECTORY ACTIVE DIRECTORY SOFTWARE
Many of these can run on non-Mac servers, some can run on Mac servers, its your choice.Ī MacBook Pro as a server which is what you apparently said would be a terrible idea as it would be a waste of an expensive laptop. Apple's Profile Manager, or JAMF Casper Suite, or similar.
However this does not require specifically Open Directory as these days management is done via a Mobile Device Management solution (MDM) e.g. I would agree managing Macs is best done via Mac tools. I would suggest upgrading it to at least 2012R2 if not 2016. It would have been more logical to have Windows Server 2012R2 which would have been the current version a year ago. I am surprised that a year old server is allegedly running Windows Server 2008, clearly 2008 is much older than a year.
MACOS SERVER OPEN DIRECTORY ACTIVE DIRECTORY SOFTWARE
Also frankly Apple's server software is a bit of joke. Since you already have a Windows server which can act as a server both Windows and Macs I would stick with that.
NOTE: The school runs Google Apps, and all staff have a Google Apps account with a custom domain name. The current setup is that there is a local + Admin user configured on each of the Windows 10-based PCs, with all staff having access to the local, non-Admin user.įor the sake of easier management, I would like to move them to network-based logins, as we begin our migration to a macOS environment.ĭo we configure AD on the Windows server, and bind MBAs to it, as and when we purchase them, with the final purchase being the MBP 15" for server-duties, or is there some way we can get the 15" MBP now, and use Open Directory, and binding the existing 10 Windows 10-based PCs to the macOS Server? This migration cannot take place in one stroke, and would happen in a phased manner (probably 20-25 MBAs purchased every year, for the next four years). As the institution wishes to expand the computers available to their staff (of 90), my suggestion has been to switch to Macs (Probably 11" MBAs), with a MacBook Pro 15" doing the duty of the server. Okay, so I assist my old school in their IT needs, since they don't have a hired person to fulfill that role.Ĭurrently, they have a centre where the staff use 10 Windows 10-based PCs (Core 2 Duo systems, mostly assembled all about 3 years old) connected to a Windows 2008 Server (from Dell about a year old).