There are a number of solutions and approaches that you can take for integrating Macs into your Active Directory infrastructure, and I’ll be talking about some of them here. Depending on your environment, you may also want to be able to implement security measures to limit what users may do while logged into a Mac or to manage the user experience as you would do with group policies for Windows machines. Although Apple has used Samba to make it easy for Macs to browse and access shares and printers hosted by Windows servers using Microsoft’s server message block (SMB) protocol, true Active Directory integration requires more than just access to resources.įor one thing, it requires support for an environment where users can rely on their Active Directory accounts for log-in to both Mac and Windows computers. Supporting Mac users can be a challenge to systems administrators in a Windows Active Directory environment.

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