PC Integration

Here at PhillipsTaylorBrown we understand that supporting MAC equipment and MAC users can be a challenge for organisations and systems administrators alike when used in a mixed environment, The most common of these being a windows Active Directory environemnt. Over the years we have worked with many organisations large and small assisting them with their Windows and MAC integration.

Some of the benefits of integrating your MAC's into Active Directory:

• Single Sign on, giving users one simple username and password for their MAC, Email and file access. This helps remove the need to maintain multiple passwords for MAC's, volumes and Data stores.
• Signed connections, the native and third party AD plugins for mac almost always support signing and encrypting LDAP connections used to communicate with Active Directory along with signed SMB support (MAc OS X v10.5). This means no downgrade to your Active Directory site security to accomodate the mac clients and servers.
• Central management of OS X users and groups through active directory with support for a number of group policy items suitable for mac computers. great for locking users out of certain sensistive system preferences.
• Management and control of information with Windows Server 2003 or 2008 quota and mailbox management. Centralised backups of critical business information and production data.