There’s nothing like it in the Linux or Mac worlds. People have often told me, “LDAP exists!” Yeah, for authentication, and that’s about it.
If you’re a Windows sysadmin and you think, “I wonder if I could do this thing?”, the answer is “yes”, there’s an easy way to do that thing and/or a Group Policy Object to be applied. AD is a truly amazing system for managing a fleet of PCs.
Wondering that myself. MDM is pretty wide spread and Mac has great centralized management with all the invasion of privacy the org admin could ask for.
That doesn’t scratch the surface of what AD can do. If I can imagine a thing, AD has a GPO for that, or an even simpler way. You can apply 999 GPOs per user or group or machine. That’s not all of them.
It’s not just about MDM, or auth. AD is incredibly reliable and mature. I can’t see anyway for Linux to catch up because of the splattered ecosystem, or Apple allowing that fine level of control.
Moron here. Whats so unobtanium about Active Directory?
There’s nothing like it in the Linux or Mac worlds. People have often told me, “LDAP exists!” Yeah, for authentication, and that’s about it.
If you’re a Windows sysadmin and you think, “I wonder if I could do this thing?”, the answer is “yes”, there’s an easy way to do that thing and/or a Group Policy Object to be applied. AD is a truly amazing system for managing a fleet of PCs.
Interesting. Gives atleast a sense of one thing solid keeping some orgs locked-in with MS. Thanks for the info.
Wondering that myself. MDM is pretty wide spread and Mac has great centralized management with all the invasion of privacy the org admin could ask for.
That doesn’t scratch the surface of what AD can do. If I can imagine a thing, AD has a GPO for that, or an even simpler way. You can apply 999 GPOs per user or group or machine. That’s not all of them.
It’s not just about MDM, or auth. AD is incredibly reliable and mature. I can’t see anyway for Linux to catch up because of the splattered ecosystem, or Apple allowing that fine level of control.