I believe WGM _can_ manage unbound machines, provided that you first import them into WGM (Matt can correct if this is misinfo since we modified AD schema & leverage AD/WGM to manage users). Even then, that in itself, whether you do it in an strictly OD environment or Magic Triangle, is a pain without third party utility like Passenger.
-----Original Message----- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 6:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix Question: how does one bring a Mac under scope of management of WGM? For AD - the machine has to be joined to the domain. For Macs? Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Wednesday, 8 September 2010 5:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix I think sdewilliam is saying that there is no modelling capability. GPMC lets you pick a user, a computer and an AD site, and dynamically layers all the policies at all levels that will affect the user, and gives you the resulting effective settings (after group filtering, WMI filtering etc). The advanced GPM also lets you do check-in/check-out, versioning control, workflow etc. Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, 8 September 2010 2:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mac and Windows mix Perhaps I'm misunderstanding: Isn't that exactly what Workgroup Manager does in Open Directory? There are plenty of settings which can be applied to individual Macs, users, user groups and computer groups. ----- Original Message ----- From: sdewilliman [mailto:sdewilli...@g2.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:41:34 -0700 Subject: Re: Mac and Windows mix > Precisely, with OD /WGM there¹s no central mgmt console whereby an > admin can tell which/what policy is applied to what group. > Administration easily becoems a nightmare without 3rd party mgmt > software such as Centrify. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
