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Apple Technical White Paper Best Practices for Integrating OS X with Active Directory OS X Mavericks v10.9 Contents Introduction 4 How to Integrate OS X with Active Directory 5 Enterprise Integration Challenges 8 Deployment Strategies 10 Home Directories 11 Conclusion 12 Appendix A: More Information 13 Appendix B: Third-Party Add-on Solutions 14 2 Apple Technical White Paper Best Practices for Integrating OS X with Active Directory Introduction Apple’s support for Active Directory within OS X enables Mac clients and servers to integrate smoothly into existing Active Directory environments, and provides the option of deploying a single directory services infrastructure that can support both Mac and Windows clients. Apple’s Built-in Solution Large organizations have a need to manage user identities and access across a variety of services in their environment. It’s common practice to consolidate users, groups, and computing resources into a centralized directory services infrastructure. Out of the box, OS X seamlessly integrates with a variety of directory-service technologies, including Active Directory. Apple’s implementation of a centralized directory service is called Open