Who here uses Profile Manager ?

[2097]

We are using profile manager here running on a Mac mini ( dual HDD server version) which came with Yosemite. They are setup to link TO AD and their mac profiles are stored within their AD homedrives.

 

Half my machines are Yosemite and the other half are El Capitan , i find very randomly the macs decide to not login with an AD account and the only way to get them to work again is to unenroll and rejoin .

 

Does any one else have this problem ? does my head in and has been happening on and off for a year atleast .

[free780]

Is network connectivity OK on the macs? Is DNS ok? Are you using a FQDN for your domain? I'm currently trying to get a group of 11000 into Profile Manager.

[sted]

make sure you set the macs to get their time from one of your dcs ive found with older macs (not really done it for a while) it was very sensitive to time mismatches

[2097]

make sure you set the macs to get their time from one of your dcs ive found with older macs (not really done it for a while) it was very sensitive to time mismatches

 

Is there an option to do that via profile manager for clients ?

[2097]

Yes to all and most of the time it tends to work ok . Only problems i seem to have is random machines dropping off and sometimes the users AD homedrive is full so the profile fails to pull down .

 

I am thinking of change it to local profiles and doing linking to SMBs via a script of some sort.

[sted]

Is there an option to do that via profile manager for clients ?

this was pre profile manager i just went to troublesome macs and did it manually diddnt have enough to make it worth the time of trying to automate

[free780]

Those who are mapping Home to the home drive does it work if the home drive folder is in the root of the share on your file server?