Macs and Active Directory

[opethdisciple]

Seems like some people at work are going to be getting Mac Books for travel and to replace their Windows workstations.

I understand from a quick google it is possible to get the Macs to play nice with AD. I assume things like roaming profiles etc will all be possible to sync between OSX and AD. As well as adding them to the domain?


As one of the functions of the Mac Book will be for out of office use, I am thinking I would create a local account on the Mac which the user uses when they are out of the office. They can use it like a regular machine that way and save documents to their desktop. When they are back in the office they can then login to their domain profiles to get their regular profiles and access to the domain shares etc...

We don't currently have any sort of VPN or remote desktop setup at work.

Any other better solution?

 

[opethdisciple]

This little article makes it sound possible.

At least adding the Mac to the domain and getting access to the My Documents folders hosted on the DC.

In my previous company we had this sorted but that was a 100% Linux environment using Samba and LDAP.