active directory

Hey, I work for an IT departament in Poland and I am totally new to MacOS. I am currently working with MacBook Air integrated into domain in active directory and I need to now how to enable or show the "other user" option on lock screen. I know that this was available years ago and I need to...

Hello, In our organization we utilize a MS tool we named "Managed Groups", this actually runs a program called dsquery.exe. it basically gives a little gui window (like AD users & groups) where an end user can manage AD groups they have been granted permission to. We have a small but important...

IT department at my work can't figure this out: My work issued MacBook is connected to the district Active Directory through the employer Network Account Server - I use my AD password to login to my MacBook and anyone else from my work with an AD password can login to my MacBook if they need...

What's up! Sorry, we tried searching for an answer to this here but didn't see anything related. Our company is working remotely, and pretty much everyone on iMacs brought their computers home. We work in an Active Directory environment so our Mac logins are mobile cached accounts. We have a...

I came across an issue where my account password for OSX authentication was not in sync with the newly changed Active Directory password. My account is an Admin, Managed, Mobile account bound to my Active Directory Domain and the Network Account Server is showing a Green dot with my domain. All...

When logged in with a Windows Active Directory user, configured as local administrator, I cannot unlock the computer after it is locked manually or if using a password protected screen saver. Lock screen does not show any possibility of entering a password or changing user (as shown). Only way...

Hello all, My apologies if this post belongs elsewhere, i'm new to the site. This issue appeared in the past month and has been plaguing the entire office slowly as their passwords are each expiring at different times. Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard with a mix of PC and Mac computers. Mac...

I am managing an Windows Active Directory network and have several mac machines that need to be added in. Our office has a LAN (with no internet access) to allow users to access local resources (File Server, printers, etc). But to connect to the internet, we all use the building's WiFi...

Probably going to be lengthy post - sorry -- I've been working to configure ten new MacBook Pro's to our AD domain. Through many days of pain, I've determined there's some sort of date/time problem with version 10.12.4 of Sierra. I can consistently reproduce the problem. If I leave the OS at...

Profile Manager Users Can't Log into My Device *Invalid Username or Password* We have recently set up a new Mac Mini running the latest versions of MacOS and MacOS Server. We are in the process of deploying profiles to a number of iMacs and are trying to get them enrolled in Profile Manager...

Where is the Active Directory Computer ID stored when you bind the computer to active directory? I want to use something similar to /usr/sbin/scutil --get ComputerName | /usr/sbin/scutil --set HostName $1 to set the computername, localhostname and host name as the active directory computer...

0favorite My users login to their Macs using Active Directory usernames and passwords. The Macs are bound to the Active Directory. I put some smb:// shares in Login Items so that the network shares would be loaded automatically at login, and it worked great. The users have permissions to...

Had been authenticating to the workplace Active Directory server with my Mac (latest Pro with el Cap installed). Worked splendidly! Now when I use AD login, the system is FUBAR. Dock doesn't load, apps won't launch. I can login as a local user and everything is perfect. I deleted the local...

So I've been attempting to tackle this issue for a couple of weeks now and have followed MANY so called fixes for this and absolutely none of them have worked. I know I must be missing something stupid and obvious here. So we use Active Directory (AD) and 802.1x WPA/WPA2 Enterprise Wireless...

I have about 57 machines to migrate to an Active Directory domain. I found a utility called User Profile Wizard Corporate Edition for the Windows Boxes but so far, I only have seen manual ways of migrating a Mac user's profile. If not, has anyone done this and what pitfalls have your found. I...

I'm toying with the idea of using a network login on my work Mac. It would authenticate to the corporate server via Active Directory. Setup and everything went well and seems straightforward - but when I launch an app, it asks for a serial number / license even through they have all been setup...