Kevin Neal

Q: No Workgroup Manager for 10.10 Yosemite Server ?

It looks like Workgroup Manager is not compatible with Yosemite.

 

Does this mean there is no way to set up Home Syncing, or is this now part of profile manager?

Posted on Nov 12, 2014 11:21 AM

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Q: No Workgroup Manager for 10.10 Yosemite Server ?

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  • by Michael Newbery,

    Michael Newbery Michael Newbery Nov 12, 2014 4:31 PM in response to Kevin Neal
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    Nov 12, 2014 4:31 PM in response to Kevin Neal

    WGM is not distributed with Server anymore, and hasn't been for some time (since Lion?)

     

    However, it's still possible to download it, and old versions still work with Yoseimite (at least, it works for me). It may well be that some functionality has been lost, but as far as I know, the approved way to handle Home directories now is with the profile manager.

  • by Pindar,

    Pindar Pindar Feb 10, 2015 10:24 AM in response to Kevin Neal
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    Feb 10, 2015 10:24 AM in response to Kevin Neal

    Hi Kevin

    It is still working for me

    I'm running

    • OSX 10.10.1
    • Server 4
    • Work Group Manager 10.9

     

    Still have short names

    You can download latest version of Work Group Manager from:

     

    http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1698

     

     

    Screen Shot 2015-02-10 at 18.21.20.png

    Regards

    Carl

  • by Sean Swayze,

    Sean Swayze Sean Swayze Feb 14, 2015 7:44 AM in response to Pindar
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    Feb 14, 2015 7:44 AM in response to Pindar

    Hi Pindar,

     

    Thank you for your helpful link as it allowed me to download Workgroup Manager however, when trying to install it::

     

    Screen Shot 2015-02-14 at 10.40.51 AM.png

    This version check flaw prevents installing this app on 10.10.1 (and higher) Perhaps this is easily fixed on Apple's end and reposted? How do we get that going?

  • by John Lockwood,

    John Lockwood John Lockwood Feb 16, 2015 1:41 AM in response to Sean Swayze
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    Servers Enterprise
    Feb 16, 2015 1:41 AM in response to Sean Swayze

    I also got the same install fail message although I was expecting it.

     

    The information I recall reading is that Workgroup Manager is not supported for use on Yosemite and hence also not supported on a Yosemite/Server 4.x Mac. However it is I believe supported on a Mavericks client connected to a Yosemite/Server 4.x machine.

     

    It might be possible to either drag it in to the Applications folder on a Yosemite machine or have it on a Mavericks machine later upgraded to Yosemite but I would interpret these as also being unsupported configurations.

     

    I would not expect a newer version of Workgroup Manager to be released.

  • by Frost_y,

    Frost_y Frost_y Feb 16, 2015 7:10 PM in response to Sean Swayze
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    Feb 16, 2015 7:10 PM in response to Sean Swayze

    Try installing Workgroup Manager 10.9 onto a Yosemite 10.10 base and if that then works upgrade to 10.10.1, rather than trying to install straight onto 10.10.1.

  • by theFerret,

    theFerret theFerret Feb 20, 2015 1:09 PM in response to Kevin Neal
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    Feb 20, 2015 1:09 PM in response to Kevin Neal

    My experience is that it works fine to install on a 10.9 machine and continues to work fine if the machine is upgraded to 10.10.2. WGM also works fine against a 10.10.2 + Server 4.0.3 server.

  • by Pindar,

    Pindar Pindar Feb 23, 2015 1:20 AM in response to theFerret
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    Feb 23, 2015 1:20 AM in response to theFerret

    Thanks theFerret

    Useful to know.

    Might attempt to upgrade now

  • by michaelhoch,

    michaelhoch michaelhoch Mar 15, 2015 11:12 PM in response to Pindar
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    Mar 15, 2015 11:12 PM in response to Pindar

    just download the mavericks wgm file and extracted the application with pacifist. then drag it in the application folder. works like before....

  • by bbbvpc,

    bbbvpc bbbvpc May 16, 2016 11:55 AM in response to Michael Newbery
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    May 16, 2016 11:55 AM in response to Michael Newbery

    that's not true WGM works on mavericks