Server Management or no Server Management?

[Mrpower]

Over the last few months I have been working on a MacOS Server getting it ready to be; the Major User Management system. This week I had a discussion with one of the School's Managers who exclaimed "we are a small school and we don't need this kind of management". My situation is, am I right to move towards Managed ( users log in and out using LDAP / Open Directory) or continue using Local user authentication? Alternatively dose this conflict with GDPR and we should have Server Management on our Macs?

Every school, high school and college I have worked at has managed computers (i.e. users log in and out of a server managed environment). Dose anyone know of any legislation I can use to convince people otherwise of our current situation?

[Brimstone]

Good luck trying to get network based home directories working, a short answer is...they don’t and will give you countless problems. Most of the services in MacOS Server are being depreciated, I would use an MDM to manage them as a better long term solution.

 

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