Q: two OD masters on same network
I work at a school where we have about 400 macbooks and 100 or so windows machines. We have a golden triangle set up between our old snow lepard server connected to AD and running OD master. So our client machines are bound to both AD and OD. AD for the windows authentication and OD for the preferences to lock down the machines.
Now we want to upgrade our macmini snow lepard to at least mavericks with server 4 so that we can use profile manager instead. There is no easy was to transition from snow lepard to mavericks while have machines still using the OD server.
Is it possible for us to set up another server with yoesmite and OSX server 4. So it also is bound to AD to get the list of machines so that we can managed them. My thought is that when we reimage our new yosemite laptops we can bind them to the AD and the new server 4 OD. so have both OD servers running at the same time but have the older mavericks laptops getting their preferences from Work Group manager on the old server and our newly done machines grabing Profiles instead off of the new machine. And once we have all laptops in the workplace using profiles we can simply remove the old snow lepard server..
Making sense?? Hoping that someone is in the same boat and has already done this. I just dont want any conflicts between the two servers or laptops trying to connect to both. I assume that for the new machines to grab profile they would need to be bound to the new AD?
Whew... thats a lot of information.. all i need now is a simple answer so we can start our imaging process for the bloody staff who require the latest!!
Cheers.
Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.5)
Posted on Aug 5, 2015 5:09 PM