Comments on: Snow Leopard – The Journey to Find the Directory Utility

By: David Bates

David Bates — Fri, 06 May 2011 02:20:21 +0000

Now after three major updates it does. Thanks for the comment.

By: Lamnk

Lamnk — Wed, 04 May 2011 13:59:31 +0000

A search for “directory utility” doesn’t show up in Spotlight but “directory” indeed shows the Account pref panel.

By: tattoomenow review

tattoomenow review — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 01:45:13 +0000

Thank you for this, just wanna letcha know I bookmarked to ur blog too……thnks =)

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:17:53 +0000

Our school just finished upgrading our servers to 10.6 and although we are a mixed client environment we have successfully removed all Windows based servers from our environment. All authentification and management of our Windows clients are handled by Apple Servers. It took a great deal of the complexity out of our network setup and has made our jobs much easier. We were 100% PC 2 years ago. If you have the option to make the switch, I would take it.

By: David Bates

David Bates — Sat, 22 May 2010 04:10:13 +0000

Yes I agree there are and can be several integration issue. Active directory is a beast in itself and there is no telling how some group policies will affect the mac. I will say that the latest snow leopard has been easier than any previous os version to tie to a domain. A couple of things that I encounter a lot are time syncs, group policies that affect networking or outlook, and getting keychain to keep a users credentials stored. So thank you for you comment but I still believe that it is now easier than ever.

By: David Bates

David Bates — Sat, 22 May 2010 04:04:04 +0000

That should be provided by your system administrator.

By: Addison

Addison — Wed, 12 May 2010 16:05:55 +0000

I am having trouble connecting to a windows domain. I am not sure what I should type in for the domain name.

By: MR

MR — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:35:10 +0000

David,

Thanks for the article, saved me a few.

Brogdon,

At the risk of sounding like a MAC hater your take on integration is a bit glowing. We’ve had a few areas where it isn’t so smooth. This isn’t just me, there are many posts out there about SMB issues and lost AD settings. The problems have remained through a few version of MAC OS as well. Not saying your story isn’t true just want people to know it isn’t all peaches N cream.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 07:28:38 +0000

Thanks David, you have saved me several sleepless nights dreaming about lost Directory Utility.

By: Stephen Polley

Stephen Polley — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:37:10 +0000

Cheers David

I’m a pc/mac tech who classically refuses to read manuals or buff on new releases! This however puts me in the dark when apple go and move Directory utility…
Thank you for making your knowledge available where so many others have just not bothered.