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The VPN works great with the Macs, now we just have to decide which product to use.

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Thanks M@

We are testing the Casper Recon now for inventory since it now has an SCCM plugin(woohoo!). One of my biggest hurdles is do not have any one or two Mac specific peeps to work on the project. We are all doing two or three jobs at a time here.

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ps-what we are trying to achieve is
password expiration notifications and the ability to change it on the domain
network printer mapping
network drive mapping using dfs (users have three drives associated with their id’s)
use of network drives on and off campus-90% of our mac users are on a laptop

inventory and software concurrent licensing but i am hopeful with caspers recon and their new sccm plugin…

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hey thomasb, thanks for the info. we are set up with a dfs config. users can still map using smb but we move folders around so much it becomes problematic so AD is looking to be strictly dfs. AD is of course adamantly adverse to extending their schema but i think there is some lack of understanding there as well. we are testing the xzip zidget on a test domain and it works GREAT but there are no home drives on the test network so its hard for me to say “yeah this will work”. I am trying to get them to test it on the live servers but so far i run into a brick wall so they are going to try to have my test domain mirror the live domain. AD dislikes Macs immensely here so its been rough.

I am going to pass this on to my mac techs to see what they think, as well as the rogue ad person who does not hate my macs.

If we choose the xzip our users should be able to access their drives via the vpn client we provide, in theory. Did you try the admit mac or any other product? just curious. I would be very interested in seeing your “howto” doc when you are finished. How do you have your mac users log in, locally? Do you have networked printers? if so how do you configure them?

I have a lot of newb questions i know, but well its an entire new program and i really want it to fly. Interestingly, i’ve had a hard time finding “real” reviews of the products and how well they really work. thanks for your input, eek

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Has anyone successfully used any of these third party software in a predominately Windows environment? If so what, and could you hook a girl up with some tips? I was secretly hoping the AdmitMac (since dave is now wrapped up in it) would work well because i do mostly client side, but its got major bugs and its looking more and more like it will have to be sever side. Anyway, i appreciate any input out there. thanks, eek

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is there a secret to posting a normal post here?? its as bad as the third party software i’ve been testing…

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tested every aforementioned as well as quest and open directory.

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hi everyone,

I’m new to the mac world but have worked in IT for the past 10 years. i currently work for a medium sized university and we are trying to integrate macs into our ad environment, and its been quite painful to say the least. So far I’ve tested

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