Who says Microsoft doesn’t like Macs? Proving that they're out to help IT professionals with all of their challenges, Microsoft TechNet Magazine this month has a special interoperability issue, which includes an Mac interop article authored by yours truly. You'll find: Mine: Managing Macs in a Windows environment Interacting with Windows from a Mac environment Authenticating

Mac Interop: Small Business Server’s Remote Web Workplace One tough bit about MAcs on a Windows network is when that network runs Small Business Server. Because the Remote Web Workplace (RWW) uses an ActiveX control, it doesn't work on Macs. At all. Sure, your Mac users could just run Windows in a virtual machine - but bleh, what

Mac Interop: AD Authentication So how do you get a Mac to log on to an Active Directory (AD) domain? Fortunately, when Microsoft created AD, they decided to use an industry-standard authentication protocol: Kerberos. That paves the way to allowing many different operating systems to utilize AD's authentication services. On a Mac, it all

Mac Interop: Networking As many of you know, I'm a big Apple fan. I use an iMac as may daily desktop, and a MacBook Air as my portable, along with an iPhone and some Apple TVs. So I've decided to write a continuing series of blog posts about Mac interop - and the