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protocol7 is right about the IT manager. I've noticed that school IT departments are, for the most part, utterly clueless unless it's a technical school. Hang back and let the ugly part happen between them, don't get your hands dirty.

I run into the same thing between users on my network - some of our VPs and salespeople have bought MacBook Pros recently and have taken them to me to have our VPN set up on them. They'll later be talking to other users who have Mac/Win prejudice and inevitably, they'll ask me what I prefer. I love the glassy-eyed look they get when I tell them about the assortment of different systems I have at home and the obligatory "What's a linnucks bocks?" when they hear about Ubuntu or Slack. Not because I think they're stupid, but because it's fun seeing people's reactions to their paradigms (e.g. people have one computer and it's a Mac or a Pee Cee) being shattered.

Seriously, though, if they ask you just cite your personal preference and make sure they understand it's YOUR preference - it's very hard to argue against something that subjective.

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That is a per machine, and per user account thing though, it cannot be stored on a server as a roming profile, and local profiles aren't much use on a network, if you want a user's files and settings to be stored on the server.

The same settings can also be managed at an OS X Server. He was just giving an example of what sort of control you have even without an OS X Server.

With an OS X Server, you can manage anything you can change with a plist file (preference file), and since a lot of the functionality of OS X revolves around these files, you get a hell of a lot of control. Team that with Apple Remote Desktop and you have a management powerhouse.

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