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Active Directory vs. OS X Server 10 to manage Macs

Hello - I would like to receive feedback from anyone who has managed both Mac OS X computers in an Active Directory and OS X Server domain environments please?  

I realize you can join Mac OS X computers to either Windows Active Directory or OS X Server Open Directory but am curious of the actual day to day management and "real life" experiences of how managing Macs in each of these two environment compares.

Any feedback and sharing experiences would be most appreciated!

Thank you
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Thanks for your thoughts Adam and in this situation it will be an all Mac computer setup.  

OS X Server makes sense but like you mention on the flip side support resources, etc. can be costly to support.  AppleCare OS support plan for the "Select" plan starts at almost $6,000 for just 10 incidents which seems crazy.

A/D does provide some benefit as you mention also but it is limited.  

You are also right.....it seems Apple is just not as excited about as their customers in terms of having their devices run in a business setting.
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Thanks to everyone for your thoughts and sorry for the delayed response.

We are reviewing the notes above and doing more research - will provide an update soon!
nappy_d - you mentioned working with Jump Cloud - would you recommend that over Active Directory?  If so why?

Our situation looks like it will be mostly Mac with little if any Windows computers on the network - it looks like JC has some benefits over Ad in that regard.
I merely mentioned Jump Cloud for that exact reason. AD is great and has a lot of benefits that are too many to but as you point out, you have little if any Windows in your environment.

You still want centralized authentication and management which makes Jump Cloud a solution over OS X server for redundancy and systems management from anywhere.