Welcome

Welcome to themacplace, a Macintosh Support and Consultancy company located in the North East of England. Based in Middlesbrough within easy reach of Newcastle, Sunderland, Leeds and York but also operating throughout the UK. We have already carried out work in various areas including Birmingham, Liverpool and London.

Experience

We are passionate about the Mac OS, and have experience from System 7 through to Mac OS X, including Mac OS X Server. We are particularly experienced with Mac OS X and are experts at migrating corporate systems and workflows from Mac OS 9 or earlier to Mac OS X. Please click on the squares to the right to find out more or Contact Us for more details.

Widgets!

We've now got a few widgets out there, our train widget is popular and we will update it at some point (promise!). Unfortunately we've been tied up by real work so we haven't done as much to it as we wanted. It can be downloaded from our Widgets page. In the meantime we've also written a widget for Macworld UK and we have a few more in development.

Re-branding

We will very shortly be updating the website with a new look and a new logo designed by the very patient Highground Design. We will get there in the end, we're just far too fussy sometimes!

Windows/Active Directory News

We have been installing a lot of OS X Server systems over the past few months and a reasonable number have involved tying into Windows/Active Directory systems. Active Directory support under OS X v.10.4, Tiger, has been generally good, but Apple have added, since 10.4.4, the ability to add Active Directory groups to Open Directory groups when attempting a "Golden Triangle" AD/OD system. This makes such a deployment far more feasible, allowing Macintosh clients to be managed by a Mac OS X Server system while still authenticating using a company Active Directory deployment. If you would like some more details please get in touch.