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We have a good number of macs (35) and just got Setup with ad on 2012 and s windows fileserver . What benifits would we get with joining the macs to the Ad . I was told mac have issues now and then with logon when they bind to ad .
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We have a good number of macs (35) and just got Setup with ad on 2012 and s windows fileserver . What benifits would we get with joining the macs to the Ad . I was told mac have issues now and then with logon when they bind to ad .

Macs connected to AD

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Microsoft Legacy OS

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