Mac Integration Basics 12 (EN)

Description

Organisations are increasingly integrating Mac computers into Windows or other standards-based network environments. But users and the IT professionals who support them can relax, because Mac integration is not complicated.

Goals

• Integrate a Mac into a Windows network environment. 
• Configure a Mac to work with Active Directory.
• Take advantage of network services, file sharing, printing, instant messaging, email, calendars, and contacts.
• Provide security at the user, local-networking, and remote-networking levels.
• Migrate data from a Windows computer to a Mac.
• Back up data.
• Run Windows programs on a Mac.

Target

• Users who bring a Mac into organizations that predominantly use the Microsoft Windows operating system and Windows Server Essentials
• Users who replace a Windows computer with a Mac 2
• IT professionals who support Mac users in organizations that predominantly use Windows and Windows Server Essentials

Contents

• Connect a Mac to an Active Directory server.

• Connect to file servers, turn on personal file sharing.

• Manage Internet Accounts preferences, connect to an Exchange Server, connect Mail to non-Windows servers, add accounts in Mail, Contacts, and Calendars.

• Built-In Security features, create strong passwords, use two-factor authentication, set a firmware password, lock a Mac screen, create user accounts, disable automatic login, protect start-up disk files, ensure that the apps you download are safe, provide network security.

• Connect to a local printer, connect to, share, and print from network printers.

• Move content, back up content.

• Run Windows natively or virtually, Microsoft Office for macOS, cross-platform apps, cross-platform files.

Prerequisites

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