Software options for Active Directory

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guszernguszern
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in macOS edited January 2014
I am the Mac administrator for my company and I am looking at bringing the Macs into the Active Directory realm. Since we have crept to over 100 Macs (most laptops) it has gotten a little more difficult to manage. I have researched two products, but haven't done any testing yet. The products that I have researched are Centrify Direct Control and Thursby ADmitMac. Direct control seems to be a bit more useful with machine policies. While AdmitMac seems a little light in it's scope.



Has anyone worked with either of these? How did it work out? Is there any other products that I should consider?



Thanks for your professional comments.

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    karl kuehnkarl kuehn Posts: 756member
    What exactly is your goal? If it is to just get the computers onto the AD domain so that they can get single-sign-on and the like, then you don't need additional software at all. Apple has had AD support built in for a few versions now (since roughly 10.3). If you want to be able to "manage" the computers in some fashion, then you are going to have to solidly define what you want to be able to do.



    Even in the latter case it is often more effective to just extend the AD schema to include the Apple extensions for MCX (Apple's system comparable to Workgroup Policy).



    You might well want to find a consultant to go over all of your options with you, as doing this by yourself is likely to lead you down dead-ends.
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