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		walterbell on Nov 7, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Whatever happened to Japanese laptops? How do IT departments manage policy for a lot of Macs? MacOS server MDM is for small biz. Are there good OSS tools? I've seen a paper on cfengine, https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/lisa10/tech/full_papers/...

ben1040 on Nov 7, 2016 | [–]

Everywhere I've worked that deployed Macs in any large capacity also used this management suite from Jamf.

https://www.jamf.com/products/jamf-pro/

astrange on Nov 7, 2016 | | [–]

I'm amazed that works, but don't do what they did. Use configuration profiles where possible.

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/featuredarticles...

gcb0 on Nov 7, 2016 | [–]

ironically my 20k employee corp uses Microsoft Active Directory.

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