In Mac OS X 10.6’s Open Directory, when you add ManagedClient to managed preferences you end up with two com.apple.mail entries (one suffixed with .managed). One is called com.apple.mail.managed, which is used for Mail for 10.5 and below and frankly doesn’t seem to be complete, so I’ve manually populated my environment with keys from 10.5 Server. The other is com.apple.mail, which now supports SSL, but only gives the drop-downl list for Always, showing no options in Once/Often.
One thing that was a bit confusing to me is what Beau and I discovered to be a GUI bug, where when you click on a manifest and then click on Once, Often or Always, you have to click on the disclosure triangle in order to get the button to add a New Key. Given that there is a new service, Address Book, I would have expected to see a com.apple.addressbook, especially since the property list isn’t exactly welcoming for edits. But what I haven’t seen any mention of thus far in the manifests is Exchange 2007 support. No EWS strings, no nothin’. But all in all, I think it’s still coming together a bit and I look forward to seeing a cohesive vision of leveraging managed clients to automatically push out iCal, Address Book and Mail, no matter what service you’re using, to clients.
