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User profile for user: estrois.me.com
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Client Binding to AD and or OD?

With server 2008 R2 64 and OS X server 10.9.


I bind the Mac Clients and the server to AD because that is where the users and computers accounts are.


But it is not intended to create groups off WS 2008 but rather through OD.


Somehow, I wonder if I have to bind the Mac clients to OD at all.


If I start collaborative services. Mail, Message, Calendar, Address Book, Wikis, Blogs, and push everything through Profile Manager, do I still need to bind clients to Open Directory at all?


What about iPads?


Francois.

Mac mini, OS X Server, 10.9.1

Posted on Feb 22, 2014 12:37 PM

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User profile for user: Strontium90
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Posted on Feb 22, 2014 3:25 PM

So if you have Win 2008 and AD, you really shouldn't need OD. OS X has been able to respect AD groups for many versions and 10.9 will now cache AD groups for offline access. So unless you have a contentious relationship with the AD admin and they refuse to create groups for you, then rolling OD just for groups will be required (but probably should be avoided).


Now, I am also surprised to see you trying to run groupware on the Mac. While Mail is IMAP/POP, your calendars and contacts will be CalDAV and CardDAV. Support for these on Windows is sketchy at best (see here http://caldav.calconnect.org/implementations/clients.html and here http://carddav.calconnect.org/implementations/clients.html for details). So if you are supporting a significant number of Windows machines, this choice may not be the ideal one.


Now, Profile Manager will require OD. So if you are using Apple's Profile Manager, OD will be required.


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Feb 22, 2014 3:25 PM in response to estrois.me.com

So if you have Win 2008 and AD, you really shouldn't need OD. OS X has been able to respect AD groups for many versions and 10.9 will now cache AD groups for offline access. So unless you have a contentious relationship with the AD admin and they refuse to create groups for you, then rolling OD just for groups will be required (but probably should be avoided).


Now, I am also surprised to see you trying to run groupware on the Mac. While Mail is IMAP/POP, your calendars and contacts will be CalDAV and CardDAV. Support for these on Windows is sketchy at best (see here http://caldav.calconnect.org/implementations/clients.html and here http://carddav.calconnect.org/implementations/clients.html for details). So if you are supporting a significant number of Windows machines, this choice may not be the ideal one.


Now, Profile Manager will require OD. So if you are using Apple's Profile Manager, OD will be required.


R-

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Client Binding to AD and or OD?

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