I don't know much myself about Mac's. From my off-hand experience trying to help wife (on her school provided machine), I've found that: 1. It appears that they don't logon to an AD domain. Maybe just the schools implementation of low bandwidth to schools. 2. Entourage (Mac Exchange client) uses ActiveSync so your users will need duel logon. 3. My wife's school district hasn't implemented password security, so she's had the same password since she started 7years ago. Guessing this is because she doesn't actually logon to AD, so she can't change it by herself? 4. Corporate experience - our Mac tech at a former employer would just wipe and rebuild the machines each time they had technical issues. Further, he'd ask for the mailbox to be rebuilt (delete/recreate on server) as it appeared Entourage would corrupt it (E2003). On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Glen Johnson <gjohn...@vhcc.edu> wrote:
> Our boss wants my assistant and me to meet with a rep who wants us to put > in some macs. > > We are a %100 windows shop, no mac experience and with only two of us, we > really don’t want any more added to our overloaded plates. > > Other than the cost to train one or both of us, cost for some centralized > patching, centralized management, what other reasons can yall recommend we > use to prevent this from happening. > > I don’t want to be dishonest with him, but I would hate to see this dumped > on us without us presenting all the valid reasons we can come up with. > > We have a windows 2008 domain and I think you have to turn on some less > secure authentication in the domain to allow them to login. Anyone know if > that is correct? > > What about centralized password policies, screen savers, and such? > > Thanks for any ammo anyone cares to provide. > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
