Re: MacBook pro - OT

No you are thinking about normal vendors/manufacturers and their desire
to keep customers happy. Steve Jobs owns the consumer market. He could
care less about some uptight executive whose IPad can't hit their AD
locked down Intranet. Suck it suits.

-Hammer-

On 06/28/2011 08:32 AM, Marko Milivojevic wrote:
> If enough execs can't see it, soon it will stop being a problem ;-)
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> On Jun 28, 2011, at 6:07, -Hammer-<bhmccie_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Yes, for authentication and drive mapping. But not full AD integration
>> such as GPO or token passing. This is a big hurdle. Same with IOS. Execs
>> can't see the pretty Intranet because it's all based on AD and
>> authenticates you on every blessed page. Stupid or not, it's a problem.
>>
>> -Hammer-
>>
>>
>>
>> On 06/27/2011 11:25 PM, Thomas Perrier wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 3:38 AM, -Hammer-<bhmccie_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> One thing I don't see anyone mentioning (I may have missed it) is Active
>>>> Directory. Until OSX (or IOS (IPAD)) have native AD integration they
>>>> will never make it in large enterprise environments as anything more
>>>> than a trinket. Yes, Cisco and a few others support them in a large
>>>> scale. But take that model outside of the technology vertical and Apple
>>>> is at a loss. Medical? FI? Government? They all need their AD and base a
>>>> lot of their security and policy around it. Without AD it's just a toy
>>>> for the executives and a few folks in I.T...
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Actually, OS X has had AD integration for years, at least for user
>>> authentication and drive mapping. Of course no GPOs, etc.
>>>
>>> -Thomas
>>>
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