Hi Nate
I was involved in extending the schema of a 2008 R2 forest just recently
1. No technicial issues, I followed the steps whitepaper to use Microsoft’s schema analyser, The biggest issue for me was convincing the “Windows Guys” to let the “Mac Guys”
touch their schema 😉
2. Can’t really answer this one, we didnt have magic triangle set up before (Mac users were effectively on their own) – however it did save us having to buy xservs
3. I asked our Apple consultant about this, the answer was that the schema extensions didnt change from 10.5 to 10.6, however future versions may include additional functionality which may require the schema to be updated again to be taken advantage of, I imagine this would be done the same way as the current upgrade is performed
4. We made this decision based upon a reccommendation from Apple, as far as I know they will continue to support it, The 10.6.2 version of Workgroup Manager fixed a lot of error messages you would get when working with an Active Directory so it would appear they are still actively looking at it
5. Biggest annoyance would be the lack of support for computer groups which were introduced in 10.5, which means I cant say have seperate computer groups for “Lab 1” which is nested in “Block A”, which is nested in a Campus wide computer group – you need to work with the limitations of computer lists (A computer can only be in one list and a list can’t be in another computer list).
Hope this info was useful
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