Q: What are we supposed to do now.....
So... we have a network of various macs all running 10.10 and above and some old Xserves on 10.7 that are well past it. We're running network homes and as each OS version comes out it's getting more and more flakey and unstable. I'm looking to upgrade the servers to something new (probably a couple of mac minis) that can run the latest server software.
I have a dedicated mac mini with Server installed and an iMac both running the latest 10.11.5 to test things on.
The question is... Apple has made it quite clear that network homes is not in their interest anymore and not really developing it. Mobile homes don't seem to work anymore. Profile manager appears to be constantly hung up on certificates.... So what are we "supposed" to be doing now? You don't even seem to be able to have a network login with a local home directory anymore as you used to be able to do with workgroup manager?
We've got a new corporate office 365 subscription that doesn't authenticate on a network home user (sandbox doesn't allow the installer access to the keychain during it's authentication process) so network homes are out anyway.
I really only need user authentication / password policy control and i'll just have to admit that any hope of hot desking are out the window and any backup will be disaster recovery rather than instant fix.
Just wondering what Apple are touting as the current done thing.. BYOD? How does that fit in?
Thanks
Posted on Jul 13, 2016 6:43 AM