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yeah got to take some exams in bristol soon then if i pass ill be apple certified

honestly i ask myself that most days haha, i do enjoy it but im getting tired of just "getting by" but there's not much else out there :/

haha try 11k gross thats what i live off

We do it through apple remote desktop, this allows us to shutdown all the mac's whenever we need to and we can also set it to start up and shut down at a certain time. Although i think you can just use a script to shut down all of them without needing apple remote desktop

Yep, macs will now intergrate fine with active directory to authenticate users but to have 'group policy's on the mac to lock them down etc you will need a mac server. if you only have a small amount of macs you wish to integrate you can easily do the locking down with a mac mini running osx server which is a much cheaper option than an xserve and works just as well provided your only putting in a small number of macs.

my mug dissapeared too although i have seen it on the system managers desk a few times good old pentium 4 mug

that certainly is a strange problem. The only thing i can think of is following the steps in that link you posted at the beginning. Along with that, it could still be caused by the updates? is this something you have checked? as if your server pushes out apple updates it could be trying to download a huge amount of data for the updates (this may not be the case but its worth a try) If you have had your server for less than a year you can phone apple themselves for some support which you get with it when you buy it. If not you could try phoning them anyway their normally quite helpfull and if its an issue they've seen before they will most probably be happy to help you. Hope this is of some help, let me know how you get on Jo

Hey Nick, i think the only way to do that would be to use a mac server :/. I am unaware of being able to do it without this (although other people may have done it) another way which would probably do it is buying software which is a plug in for your current active directory which allows you to administer the macs. Hope this helps a bit!

it is possible yes, but it will not allow you to put restrictions on the mac such as only letting certain people do certain things, but it can be integrated.. Although not without a few sleepless nights as it didnt go hugely smooth when we did it. We have server now but to the best of my knowledge when we didnt we were able to sign in with user credentials from our windows server and then the drives set up to mount as their area...

I have found after quite sometime of hassling over trying to get macs to properly bind into AD (which worked in the end) that osx server is the way to go and we are getting it quite soon. I think anyone who wants to be running macs in a big network should look at getting it, even though it it pricey it offers huge advantages and i am definately looking forward to finally having our mac suite working the way it should.