Agreed they are a pain.  They also like to leave files around that make
backups fail (or appear to fail).  I took to leaving the files in place and
put specific deny write on the Mac user in my environment.  Mac users are
also a pain to deal with as they usaully whine that it is so much easier on
a Mac but in real life it is pretty much the same.

Jon

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Sherry Abercrombie <saber...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Macs are a pain.  Not only do I have about 2 dozen of them on my network,
> I've got a stupid Mac Server also.
>
> Macs use Entourage for interaction with Exchange (OWA), it's not perfect,
> there are issues, and it's on the Mac side.  Not any issues with having them
> on your network, I just don't like Macs.
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> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Murray Freeman <mfree...@alanet.org>wrote:
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>>  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*
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> --
> Sherry Abercrombie
>
> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
> Arthur C. Clarke
> Sent from Haslet, TX, United States
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