Microsoft's proprietary directory services system.
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Active Directory & OS X MDM - Deployment of personal certificate
We have a OS X MDM (the one supplied with OS X Lion Server) linked to an Active Directory. When we enroll a new device, is it possible to deploy automatically a certificate authenticating personnaly ...
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Enable SSH access for AD admin accounts
I have the need to configure SSH access for a AD service account on a fleet of Macs. I can't make the account a local account as the password for the service account cycles often. The end goal is to ...
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Where to configure the default user group for file/directory creation?
I would like to configure the default group for any file or directory which is created by my user. I am not sure where to start. Could somebody point me the right direction? My user lives in Active ...
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How to replace Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 with Mac Mini Server (Mountain Lion)
Our SBS2003 is basically only managing user IDs (aka Active Directory). Files shares are on a NAS and mail is to soon be on Google Apps.
Can I replace SBS2003 with a MountainLion Mac Mini Server to ...
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How to see the members of an Active Directory group in the Mail application
I'd like to find out how to check the members of a group defined in Active Directory from the Mail application in OSX 10.8.2 (Mountain Lion). I have my corporate AD server defined as an LDAP server, ...
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Airport Extreme Name Resolution
I have a little issue with my airport extreme. I'm using the device in my corporate network which has two DNS server for resolving intern and external names.
When I do an nslookup "public adresse" ...
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OS 10.8 Active Directory Single User Issue
I have seven 10.6 machines connected to active directory, all work great. We have a new 10.8 machine now connected to active directory which is working for all users except one (the main user of ...
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Active Directory and FileVault
Is there a way to set up users on Mountain Lion to be available in the FileVault boot screen if the users are Active Directory users managed through Quest Authentication Services (QAS)?
I would like ...
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OSX 10.8 Contacts can't access Active Directory 2003 via LDAP
I've recently upgraded to OSX 10.8 and have discovered that the Contacts Application can no longer access our Active Directory 2003 domain via LDAP. I have confirmed that the exact same settings work ...
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Enabling Wireless Before Logon for Active Directory
We are purchasing computers in the next week on our Enterprise network and will have a mix of Macs and PCs. We are currently running our AD server on Windows Server 2008R2.
We use folder redirection ...
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Mount Windows share automatically with Active Directory credentials
In our environment we have a bunch of iMacs running Mountain Lion that are bound to Active Directory for authentication, and we also have a Windows share that we would like all Active Directory ...
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Default profile with Active Directory
As a warning: I'm no specialist at all. I work as a student here and trying to help to fix the Mac environment. I might use the wrong terminology at times but I try to be as clear as possible.
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Mobile Account as Administrators Not Working While Mobile
I had a user that was set up to administer an OS X machine. That user is an AD account, with mobile accounts enabled. The user's AD group is set to allow administration using the directory utility.
I ...
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AD User as an administrator on the Mac?
I'm looking for a way to add an Active Directory user to a Mac and let them administrate the machine, without making more than just that user an administrator.
Right now, I'm using Directory Utility ...
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Add Active Directory Home Folder to Save As menu
I'm using the golden triangle method in a school. This allows students to authenticate with their AD credentials and it allows me to customise the OSX features using an OD Server (10.7.5).
When an ...
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How do I mount an Active Directory home folder into the sidebar?
Logon to Active Directory network, un-checked show add home folder in the dock with workgroup manager. How do I make the added home folder show up in the sidebar?
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Network accounts are unavailable - OS X Lion 10.7.4
My OS X Lion 10.7.4 Mac successfully binds to a Microsoft Active Directory Domain Controller. However every time after rebooting, I keep receiving "Network accounts are unavailable" with a red ...
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After binding Mac to AD, first login successfully creates mobile account and logs in, after that next login locks AD account
Configuration: Mac OS X 10.7 and 10.8 Active Directory Server 2008 R2 Binding using AD Plugin or dsconfigad -add mydomain -username myuser -ou "OU=Computers,OU=Sites,OU=Mysite,DC=mycompany,DC=com"
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How to get my networked drives to also work on Mountain Lion?
I have a networked drive on the XP side of my MacBook. I use a VPN and then can login to the drive. Nothing too special going on. I believe the server uses Active Directory.
There isn't a ton of info ...
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Why does OSX hang when logging in to a Windows network?
For the last couple of years I've used a MacPro + SnowLeopard at work. We have a Windows network so I have to do a network login into our domain. I sometimes login with my local Mac machine account ...
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How to have the Active Directory domain groups stick around for a managed admin account when being mobile?
My work laptop is bound to my office's AD server. In the Directory Utility, where the AD server binding is configured, the "Allow administration by" checkbox is checked and, beyond the default "domain ...
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How can I migrate an Active Directory domain for many machines?
I'm switching domains so I want to migrate my current domain that my machines are bound to , and bind them to a new domain without losing the home folder. I have to do this to about 70 machines. They ...
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How do I remove domains from the network browser?
When I go to the network browser (in the Finder, hit command K, then click the "Browse" button, or just shift-command K), I see three domain names from a network I used to connect to six years ago. ...
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Joining to MS Active Directory Domain in Mountain Lion?
Having some errors when I try to join our University active directory...
Any ideas?
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How to join an Active Directory domain in Lion with “Network Account Server [Join]” button missing?
All the directions I've seen point me to a button that isn't there. Is there some other way to join an iMac running OS X Lion that doesn't involve this missing function?
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How to add a OS X to a domain without having domain bind priviledges?
I would like to know if it is possible, and how, to add an OS X machine to a Windows Active Directory domain, without having the domain permission to do it.
Let's say you already have a Windows ...
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How can I log in to a Mac using an Active Directory account?
I have an iMac running OS X 10.7.4. I successfully managed to get the Mac into my company's Active Directory forest using dsconfigad -add example.com -domain example.com ..
I am not, however, able to ...
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Active Directory Network Account does not have login keychain?
I just bound my MacBook Pro to my Active Directory domain, so when I opened Mail and set up my email account, it asked if I'd like to remember in the keychain. Doing this on my other Mac on a local ...
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opendirectoryd taking up 1/4 of the cpu and driving fans crazy on MacBook Air
Since a couple of days my 2011 13" MBA (i5, 1,7Ghz) has a very strange issue which I don't know how to get rid of.
Every now and then (sometimes more times a day) a process called opendirectoryd ...
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Intermittent Active Directory login issues on Lion
We bought a 27" iMac for our CEO. And we brought in some consultants to hook it up to our windows Active Directory using ADmitMac. Back when we were on 10.6.x things were hunky dory. But then our CEO ...
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Anyone gotten 10.7.2 to bind properly to Active Directory in a multi-domain environment?
I work for an international non-profit that has Active Directory with multiple domains. (A bunch of them.) We can't get Lion (10.7.2) to bind to it properly. Has anyone been successful in getting AD ...
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Internet browsing problems when the Mac is bound to a Microsoft server with Active Directory
I have set up Active Directory on my Mac and I can log in and authenticate fine to the server. When I try to browse the Internet, there is an error which says "The user could not be determined by the ...
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What is the format for logging into a domain account in OS X?
At the login screen, how do I login to a domain account?
For example, on Windows the username might be something like louis@contoso.local, where the domain is contoso.local.
Edit: The AD username ...
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How to join an Active Directory domain in Lion?
where do I begin in joining an OS X Lion workstation to an existing AD Domain (Server 2008 R2)?
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Unable to login to MacBook, worked fine with Active Directory account on corp. network
My IT dept setup my new MacBook Pro with 2 accounts. One is a local account and the other is on the Active Directory server. Both have administrative privileges on the mac.
I've been using the AD ...
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Active Directory login takes from seconds to minutes on OSX
Login screen loads a very long time occasionally. It's annoying to wait for 5 minutes just to be able to use the MacBook. I have not been able to find a reason why it sometimes takes a very long time ...
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How long are Windows Server 2003 Active Directory credentials cached on Snow Leopard?
I have a few Macbooks that will be added to our Windows 2003 domain controller. Since these are mobile units, concerns arose of how long they (the machines) will maintain login rights after their last ...
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Active Directory account locks for no apparent reason
I've been troubleshooting this problem for two years and it keeps coming back. Our Mac users authenticate to our Active Directory server which is running Windows Server 2008 Standard. One of the Mac ...
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Where is Active Directory configuration information stored?
I'm curious as to where Active Directory configurations are stored on Mac OS X 10.6. "man dsconfigad" and "man dscl" are both silent on where those utilities store/read their information.
In ...
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Detaching from Active Directory and keeping mobile accounts
I have a MacBook Pro which is attached to an AD domain. The user has a domain account which is Administrator, Managed and Mobile - the home directory is on the local machine.
The company is closing ...
