Integrating the Mac Workgroup Manager with Windows Group Policy

Mac administrators understand their systems far better than Windows administrators. They have a better understanding of the different kinds of MCX settings that can be applied to a OS X desktop.

Enterprises however use Active Directory and Windows Group Policy to deploy standard settings throughout the enterprise network to desktops.

What if you could store MCX settings as Active Directory Group Policy objects? This would allow enterprise administrators to deploy standardized system settings to Macs.

What if you could still use the Mac Workgroup Manager tool on a Mac to design and create the standardize template of MCX settings and upload them to Active Directory as group policy objects? This would allow the subject matter experts (the Mac administrators) to decide what the settings should be, but allow Active Directory’s group policy infrastructure to push out the settings to the individual desktops.

Enter Likewise Enterprise 5.0 – marries the Mac desktop management with Windows group policy technology

Welcome Mac OS X into the large enterprise network!