talksr Posted January 9, 2012 Posted January 9, 2012 Good morning everyone. My school currently uses CC4 for its curriculum network and Server 2008R2 +Windows 7 clients for its Admin network. I am interested to know if you are able to add Apple systems (whether this be OSX or Boot camp Windows 7) to the CC4 windows based network we use for curriculum. Is this an easy task to perform, or would I have to get RM $upport for this? Last time I contacted RM for help on adding a macmini running bootcamp to CC4, I was told it was not possible and that I needed an Apple support plan on my account for them to discuss this. Any help would be super.
Roberto Posted January 9, 2012 Posted January 9, 2012 Yes. A CC4 network is just a standard Microsoft network with a fancy front end. Follow the guides that are stickied on this forum for authenticating a mac to a windows domain and you're done. 1
clareq Posted January 9, 2012 Posted January 9, 2012 You will need to smartclient the windows side, and we have a macmini as a server to manage the mac side of the machines. Use deploystudio to put images of both the MacOS and windows on the machines, and reFIt to allow students to select which OS to use at boot. 1
rh91uk Posted January 9, 2012 Posted January 9, 2012 Or do you have access to extend the schema? (Extending Active Directory for Mac OS X clients « Michael Kuron's Blog)
SC92 Posted January 10, 2012 Posted January 10, 2012 You will need to smartclient the windows side, and we have a macmini as a server to manage the mac side of the machines. Use deploystudio to put images of both the MacOS and windows on the machines, and reFIt to allow students to select which OS to use at boot. Pretty much all you would need to know is above! This is exactly what we do. Although the image i've created for our windows partitions seems to build as client number 8 for every machine... Has this happened to you clareq? 1
ste1988 Posted January 10, 2012 Posted January 10, 2012 We are doing just this here, and works well, although because we are running windows xp, we can longer add any more new macs, due to them only support windows 7, but because you are already running win7, you shouldnt have a problem, you will need the smartclient tool to be able to build the windows partition as cc4. Most time consuming part for me, as bootcamping all the macs, but now i have a mac mini server and deploystudio setup, i can build both partitions in under an hour, and multiple machines, the mac mini server is defintely worth the £600 they cost! Pretty much all you would need to know is above! This is exactly what we do. Although the image i've created for our windows partitions seems to build as client number 8 for every machine... Has this happened to you clareq? SC92, i seem to have this problem too, mac side will pick up the computer information from deploystudio, but the windows side does not, not a big problem, but annoying to manually rename every machine, when studio has a feature to do it!
SC92 Posted January 10, 2012 Posted January 10, 2012 I'd be interested in how you manually re-name machines after they're built onto CC4 ste! Only asking because we've had 8 macs stolen over the weekend and the mac side will be stupidly simple to re-build but I don't really want/have the time to sit through and smartclient a windows partition on 8 machines as you can probably imagine! Thinking building then manually changing the names if it saves me more than several hours...
ste1988 Posted January 10, 2012 Posted January 10, 2012 I'd be interested in how you manually re-name machines after they're built onto CC4 ste! Only asking because we've had 8 macs stolen over the weekend and the mac side will be stupidly simple to re-build but I don't really want/have the time to sit through and smartclient a windows partition on 8 machines as you can probably imagine! Thinking building then manually changing the names if it saves me more than several hours... As far as i know, its just the same as renaming any other xp machine, or you can do it on the RMMC. Depending what permissions you have etc. Id be tempted to reimage, and call the machine you image something else, like rebuild machine, just so it doesnt effect the machine you orginally imaged, like having 6 machines on the network called machine 8. Failing this, which is what ive had to do here, its simply make a clean xp image, with a few bits on and smartclient, and then smartclient everyone, this is only because of what rm suggested, but i was hoping my theory would work. The key is not to have deploy add them to the domain, so to give you time, to restore image, rename, then add to domain, As you said, its still pretty user involved, but better then smartclient everyone, then wait 2-3 hours for them to build. Sorry to hear about them being nicked though mate 1
SC92 Posted January 10, 2012 Posted January 10, 2012 I really like the idea of creating a base image of just bare Windows 7 which I can instantly roll out to the new machines at once. Will save a LOT of time installing Windows over and over and then applying the bootcamp updates too. thanks a lot!
ste1988 Posted January 10, 2012 Posted January 10, 2012 I really like the idea of creating a base image of just bare Windows 7 which I can instantly roll out to the new machines at once. Will save a LOT of time installing Windows over and over and then applying the bootcamp updates too. thanks a lot! Yeah it does save alot of time, i have win xp here, and installing that, really does get very boring after the first time lol, plus smartclient needs .net framework as well
clareq Posted January 10, 2012 Posted January 10, 2012 Pretty much all you would need to know is above! This is exactly what we do. Although the image i've created for our windows partitions seems to build as client number 8 for every machine... Has this happened to you clareq? No, I created a syspreped image with fully patched Windows and the RM Smart client on it, unnamed and not on the domain. I use deploystudio to put on the image, it runs mini setup and then I use Smart client to add it to the domain and rename it. 2
SC92 Posted January 10, 2012 Posted January 10, 2012 No, I created a syspreped image with fully patched Windows and the RM Smart client on it, unnamed and not on the domain. I use deploystudio to put on the image, it runs mini setup and then I use Smart client to add it to the domain and rename it. Sounds like a great idea, think that's what ste does too! Thanks for the input this will really help me, and hope i've helped out a little too. 1
ste1988 Posted January 10, 2012 Posted January 10, 2012 Sounds like a great idea, think that's what ste does too! Thanks for the input this will really help me, and hope i've helped out a little too. Yeah thats exactly how ive got round it, clareq, what does your mini setup do? Cheers
talksr Posted January 11, 2012 Author Posted January 11, 2012 Thanks or all of the posts and help. Just to clarify, would the macmini (or similar) need mac server to do the job, or could it get away with just running osx? We have a mac mini dual core at the moment, which may be a good one to use. Thanks again
clareq Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 When you sysprep a windows installation it automatically runs a mini setup once the image is put onto a new machine - resets the SID and so on. Mac server has workstation manager, so you would need that to manage the macs.
talksr Posted January 12, 2012 Author Posted January 12, 2012 When you sysprep a windows installation it automatically runs a mini setup once the image is put onto a new machine - resets the SID and so on. Mac server has workstation manager, so you would need that to manage the macs. Thanks for your post. I am presuming, I can just download and add this Mac App Store - OS X Lion Server to my OS X Lion macmini.
clareq Posted January 13, 2012 Posted January 13, 2012 I'm still on snow leopard. I assume that if all your workstations are on Lion, then Lion server will be fine. 1
talksr Posted January 13, 2012 Author Posted January 13, 2012 Hi, yes they are on Lion, I upgraded them all (had a bit of money spare in the budget, and it wasn't very much per system.
ste1988 Posted January 13, 2012 Posted January 13, 2012 dont forget admin tools as its not included and youll need it for workgroup manager Server Admin Tools 10.7 1
talksr Posted January 13, 2012 Author Posted January 13, 2012 dont forget admin tools as its not included and youll need it for workgroup manager Server Admin Tools 10.7 Ah thanks, that is very useful! Didn't know about that
talksr Posted February 1, 2012 Author Posted February 1, 2012 I was just thinking, would it also be possible to add a mac computer running Windows 7 (using bootcamp) to CC4 using the smartclient? I am guessing the rm build disk would not work with bootcamp?
SC92 Posted February 1, 2012 Posted February 1, 2012 I was just thinking, would it also be possible to add a mac computer running Windows 7 (using bootcamp) to CC4 using the smartclient? I am guessing the rm build disk would not work with bootcamp? Yeah it's possible! What i've done is install a fresh Windows 7 build onto a bootcamp partition, update it to the latest bootcamp software/drivers, and imaged it with deploystudio. That way, in the future you can then just create the bootcamp partition and then it's smartclient ready! Hope that helps.
clareq Posted February 1, 2012 Posted February 1, 2012 Exactly what I've done too - in fact my Win7 image for the Macs is fully patched, up to the point I created the image, with the smartclient files in a folder on the C drive and a shortcut to smartclient.exe on the desktop. They are easier to smartclient than the odd windows machine we need to smart client, due to deploystudio
ste1988 Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 like SC92 and clareq, that is the way its done here too, and with great effect, its now pretty effortless to build these machines
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