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How to join a MAC to a Windows Domain

I recently purchased a new MacBook with OS version 10.5.4 and have no clue how to join it to my Active Directory Domain running Windows Server 2008.

I have 0 expierience with Macs and also need to configure Entourage 2008 for an email client.

Is there a step by step quide someplace to do this?

Paul Knight

here you go.. its very easy

Here are some links that might help:

http://images.apple.com/itpro/pdf/AD_Best_Practices_2.0.pdf

http://macwindows.com/leopardAD.html

http://macwindows.com/AD.html

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I would love to know how to configure the Mac to use Entourage without joining it to the Domain!

jhyiesla

I'm not sure that joining your Mac to the domain is essential, but you would probably be asked for credentials every time you started it up.

kguy18

We join all our macs to our domain and entourage only asks for credentials when you setup initially. Just check the "remember password in keychain" and it shouldnt ask you until you need to change your domain password based on your security policies. Entourage does work without binding to AD though.

Paul Knight

Entourage does not need to mac on the domain as it uses the IIS functionality on the exchange server, essentially all entourage is doing is Outlook Webmail in a new dress :0)

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caw01

I am looking at a mac 10.6, I dont see directory access under Utilities. Has it been moved?