I was recently asked by a colleague about the ease of setting up Mac’s in the SBS 2003 world. We are all aware of the pitfalls of using a .local domain name (I hope) and that some of the wizards do not work (or perhaps none of them do), but I have never actually been through the detail.

One question that stumped me was around certificates on the Mac. So, I posted the question internally and someone Mark Stanfill piped up asking if the customer / partner had looked at the Whitepaper on how to setup a Mac.

For my sins, I was not even remotely aware of the whitepaper, so I downloaded it and had a look. Talk about an awesome document, so if you need to set up a Mac on a SBS network, get this document. The link is http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=46578 and this should take you to the download.

Microsoft is not the only source for information like this, it is also worth looking at the below for some ISA and Mac info:

http://simultaneouspancakes.com/Lessons/archives/2005/11/internet_access_1.shtml

Ttfn

David

Just as a FYI, here is the table of contents:

Connecting Macintosh OS X 10.3 and Higher Clients to a Windows Small Business Server 2003 Network    7

Step 1: Install the Latest Macintosh Updates    9

Step 2: Collect Information    9

Step 3: Configure DNS    10

Step 4: Share Folders Using the SMB Protocol    16

Configure SMB Settings by Using Directory Access    16

Disable SMB Signing on the Server    18

Step 5: Access E-mail    20

Step 5a: Access E-mail Using Entourage 2004    21

Add the self-signed certificate that the server created to the Macintosh certificate store    21

Verify DNS query resolution    22

Set Up an Exchange Server Account on the Client Computer    23

Step 5b: Access E-mail Using Outlook Web Access    26

Access E-mail Using Internet Explorer 5 for Mac    27

Access E-mail Using Safari    27

Access E-mail Using Netscape    27

Step 6: Access the http://companyweb Web Site    28

Using Internet Explorer as Your Web Browser    28

Using Safari or Netscape as Your Web Browser    28

Step 7: Access Remote Web Workplace    29

To connect to server or client-computer desktops from a client computer    31

To enable access to http://companyweb and to the monitoring Web sites    31

Related Resources    32

Appendix    33

Share Files Using File Services for Macintosh    33

Configure the Server    33

Configure the Client Computers    34

Join the Macintosh Computers to the Domain    36

Worksheets    39