ahjaay Posted January 7, 2017 Posted January 7, 2017 Hi, What's everyone else's network environment when it comes to Macs? Serve side of OSX, if any? How many machines have you got? Windows/Mac? Are you predominately Windows with a bit of OSX integration? Has anyone got a fully OSX environment? How's that going? What's your imaging solution? Casper, DS? Best practices for keeping machines up to date? Common issues? I'm always interested to see whats out there Cheers!
2ilent8cho Posted January 7, 2017 Posted January 7, 2017 Fully OS X on the client side (since 2013) after being Windows only for a decade, far less issues with MacOS we use deploy studio, profile manager and munki and some custom scripts. If it was starting fresh now i would get casper suite, its fine for me with the tools we have, but it would be easier on the other technicians or somebody new coming in.
ahjaay Posted January 7, 2017 Author Posted January 7, 2017 Fully OS X on the client side (since 2013) after being Windows only for a decade, far less issues with MacOS we use deploy studio, profile manager and munki and some custom scripts. If it was starting fresh now i would get casper suite, its fine for me with the tools we have, but it would be easier on the other technicians or somebody new coming in. What was the prompt to move over? Yeah I hear a lot about if someone was to start over they go with CS.
2ilent8cho Posted January 7, 2017 Posted January 7, 2017 (edited) What was the prompt to move over? Windows 8 At the time the Mac could do some things that were great like Airplay, freeing the teachers desk from being static they could move the room around how ever they wanted. Also back then the hardware was miles ahead of the competion, 13 hour battery life, amazing track pads, and very portable. We were also getting very tired of the endless battle with virus/malware on Windows it was getting silly. Then add on that the iMac's in the IT suite use up less space, generated almost no heat, and used 34w each instead of the 100w the old computers were, and no aircon having to be on we are using a hell of a lot less electricty. Then the is the residual value of the hardware, previous stuff is worthless after 3 years, the Macs after 5 years still have a lot of value in them. Its 2017 now and the Macbooks are used all day every day by the staff and battery life is still great and no complaints, prevously staff would complain after about 1 to 2 years of the laptop locking up, battery not lasting long, fans always on or its slow, not had that yet 4 years on with the Macbooks. Best move we ever did, and this is from somebody who in 2010 would not buy an iphone and hated Apple. O yeah almost forgot, vandalism in 4 years in the IT suite with iMacs? 2 keys pecked off a keyboard ,thats it! Kids seem to respect the hardware more, but that i not listed in the spec sheet Edited January 7, 2017 by 2ilent8cho 1
Strawdog Posted January 18, 2017 Posted January 18, 2017 We have 3 MacPro servers running Yosemite alongside a stack of physical and virtual Windows Server 2012 machines - our estate is mixed MacBook Pro (circa 100, all staff devices), iMacs (circa 120, mainly student devices, all dual boot), iPads (circa 350, mix of staff devices and student shared sets) and Windows desktop/laptops (circa 400, mainly student devices) with AppleTVs (circa 60) hooked up to projectors/TVs in each room for broadcasting. All student clients are on Mavericks but we have a mix on the MacBooks (this year's major project is to get them all upgraded with SSDs, 8GB and El Capitan). Students use network accounts with their Windows network shares mounted as their home drive but staff use stand alone accounts (shared network drives are mounted as SMB shares for staff, authenticated using their AD credentials). We use DeployStudio for imaging OS:X clients and AppleConfigurator for student iPads. We use ProfileManager for managing the student iMacs and are beginning to use it more and more for staff MacBooks and the iPads, we also use Apple Remote Desktop heavily for day to day management (deploying software, running *nix commands, remote support, etc.).
Strawdog Posted January 18, 2017 Posted January 18, 2017 We have 3 MacPro servers running Yosemite alongside a stack of physical and virtual Windows Server 2012 machines - our estate is mixed MacBook Pro (circa 100, all staff devices), iMacs (circa 120, mainly student devices, all dual boot), iPads (circa 350, mix of staff devices and student shared sets) and Windows desktop/laptops (circa 400, mainly student devices) with AppleTVs (circa 60) hooked up to projectors/TVs in each room for broadcasting. All student clients are on Mavericks but we have a mix on the MacBooks (this year's major project is to get them all upgraded with SSDs, 8GB and El Capitan). Students use network accounts with their Windows network shares mounted as their home drive but staff use stand alone accounts (shared network drives are mounted as SMB shares for staff, authenticated using their AD credentials). We use DeployStudio for imaging OS:X clients and AppleConfigurator for student iPads. We use ProfileManager for managing the student iMacs and are beginning to use it more and more for staff MacBooks and the iPads, we also use Apple Remote Desktop heavily for day to day management (deploying software, running *nix commands, remote support, etc.).
ITGURU Posted January 18, 2017 Posted January 18, 2017 22 iMacs all on windows network joined to domain so they get their home directory at logon.
ITGURU Posted January 18, 2017 Posted January 18, 2017 22 iMacs all on windows network joined to domain so they get their home directory at logon.
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