It has been our experience that while the technical issues of MAC's can be resolved, most issues come from the MAC users themselves. Having got themselves a little exception to the overall IT policy, they will often refuse to play nice with things like storing files on network shares which are backed up. Consume support resources with their custom needs the drain your teams time. Make constant snide comments about Windows and support and get really irritable when you produce the article clearly showing it was a MAC issue.
The last time we looked at 'some groups' needs, there were Windows versions of all the applications available but they were able to maintain their separate resource stance. Of course we were all sympathy when they lost a major amount of data do to their refusal to play nice with corporate IT policy. Of course, I may be biased. Steven On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Jonathan Link <jonathan.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > I use VMWare Fusion with a license of WindowsXP on my MacBook Pro, and can > launch the windows version of Outlook for the full integrated email > experience. > > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Murray Freeman <mfree...@alanet.org> wrote: >> >> I'm being asked to investigate the use of a few MAC's in our network. I >> know that it would be only used by a few of our staff for graphics and a few >> other apps. I'm concerned about the ability of a MAC to interface into our >> network and Exchange Server email.Obviously we would purchase new machines, >> so they could be dual boot machines. I'm also aware of virtualization, but >> haven't looked into that as of yet. Any suggestions, warnings or concerns >> from anyone with this kind of experience would be greatly appreciated. >> >> >> Murray >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
