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The thing is I have noticed any os after Leopard. Initially joins to AD perfectly well, but after a restart it takes too long before it allows you to login.
While logged in, if I need to use a domain admin account, again it is slow. After putting username and password, I wait more than 15 seconds.
How is it any better with Lion? I have tested this behaviour with Snow Leopard, and have google and found this issue still exists in Lion.
Something to do with how it deals with dns. I would love it if Apple steps up their game, because many clients are now requesting Macs and iPads. I need to be able to provide predicable support scenarios.
No it’s not better, in fact it is worse in 10.7(1).
Microsoft AD support is 100% broken, it will add itself to AD and when you reboot you get the green dot saying you can log in but it just does not work at all. There a few hacks to fix it but they only work untill the machine rebooted. And if you have regular LDAP it will log you in and it will log in locally with any password correct or not.
Supposedly both issues are fixed in 10.7(2) but I have not tested it.
We had 3 10.7 machines ordered for work and had to downgrade to 10.6 to make them work correctly. But even thats a chore. Apple does not give you downgrade rights you put in a 10.6 disk and get all kinds of driver errors. You have to get a 10.6 machine clone it, overright it by transfering the imaage over firewire. Pain in the BUTT.
The situation upsets me.
A) Not much profit margin.
B) Schools and other organizations just want it for the cool factor. Understandable.
C) etc