ard_admin & Apple Remote Desktop & Active Directory

[omicronkappa278]

OK, here is my situation:

I have a bunch of Macs which are bound to my Active Directory (I have mostly PCs)... We want to manage the Macs using Apple Remote Desktop... I was told by Apple Support that you could create a Group called ard_admin which would automatically have access to administer the Macs. Anyone had this work? Does anyone use Remote Desktop 3.4?

 

[calderone]

You have to enable Directory Based Administration.

You can do this with a custom ARD package or ARDs kickstart.

 

[Willfon]

You have to enable Directory Based Administration.

You can do this with a custom ARD package or ARDs kickstart.

/System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -configure -clientopts -setdirlogins -dirlogins yes

Just so we have it here for the next guy googling it.