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Re: Automate centrify client install on several thousand Macs

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Welcome to the Centrify Express forum. 

 

We are not sure if you are making a comment or a question, but if you're looking to deploy mass software on Macs, you can use Apple remote desktop or any commercial solution.  The key here is that the Centrify package contains the following:

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The most important aspect of a mass-deployment is the implications:

 

a) Have the systems joined previously with the Apple plugin?
In this case a migration is needed.  This is where our support for the Apple Scheme comes into play.

b) What is the strategy for joining AD?
Deploying the software is just the first step, then you need to join active directory and you need to do this in an automated fashion.
This board is full of solutions for automation like using a Keytab based on an AD service account.

c) Advanced services

Are you leveraging certificates for 802.1x or smart card login?

Will you be providing SSO services?

Are multiprotocol filers in use (e.g. NetApp, EMC, Hitachi)?  What is the strategy for identity?

Is there an existing commercial solution that complements/is complemented by Centrify (e.g Casper Jamf)
Here my advice is that you work with the experts

d) Supportability

What's the strategy for supportability going forward?  Is your staff trained?
Centrify provides training:  https://www.centrify.com/services/#training

 

 

Finally, if you use the commercial version (Centrify Identity Service Mac Edition) you have the ability to push the Centrify package (or any package) using the service.

 

 just wrote about this recently:  http://community.centrify.com/t5/Community-Tech-Blog/Pushing-custom-packages-to-OS-X-machines-enrolled-to-the/ba-p/23594


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