[MacTUG] Binding to golden triangle via scripting

[Donald Duff-McCracken]

I have a bunch of staff machines that are currently not managed that I want to bring into the old golden triangle system. For new machines I think I will likely rebuild them using deploystudio and get deploystudio to bind them to AD/OD.

But that leaves the already existing machines that I would like to turn into managed macs. OK, it is not that hard to bind macs to OD/AD — especially when I a text file named “OU= Stafffaculty, OU=Computers,OU=Resources,OU=Environmental Studies,OU=Faculties,DC=NEXUS,DC=UWATERLOO,DC=CA “ on my desktop, haha.

So while it is not that onerous to manually bind the existing staff/faculty macs, I have been thinking about writing a script to do so, and then wrapping that script in a compiled applescript or making it a package for ARD deployment. Has anyone done this on campus? Quite frankly, I likely will not put a lot of energy into this as it only something I will use for the existing machines (as all new machines will likely be bound via deploystudio), but I thought I would check out if anyone has already tried this out.

Don
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