Binding Macs to Active Directory - Description Information

What is you Active Directory running on? Is Windows Server 2008s2 or better? I ask because since 2008s2 Macs join Active Directory just well (it was the version when Apple bought Microsoft Active Sync).

Plus read the Apple document OS X Mavericks: Join your Mac to a network account server.

Also take a look the blog post Binding OS X to an Active Directory Domain for User Authentication.

 

A bash script could be written to get the serial number, join the machine to the domain, and then update the required attribute.

Hints:

1. Get the serial#

2. Join to the domain
https://developer.apple.com/library...win/Reference/ManPages/man8/dsconfigad.8.html

3. Update attribute
https://developer.apple.com/library...win/Reference/Manpages/man1/ldapmodify.1.html

Obviously if the hosts are already joined to the domain skip step (2).