Apple Device Management: A Unified Theory of Managing Macs, iPads, iPhones, and Apple TVs

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10. Directory Services

Charles Edge¹   and Rich Trouton²

(1)

Minneapolis, MN, USA

(2)

Middletown, MD, USA

 

A directory service is a centralized service used to locate and access resources on a network. For the purposes of this chapter, a directory service is used to authenticate to various resources on the network and authorize a user or device to access those resources. The most widely used directory service is Microsoft’s Active Directory, so most of this chapter is dedicated to Active Directory.

The Mac can tie into standard Active Directory and LDAP environments easily. In ...