Active Directory and OS X Server working together?

Hi Guys,
I work at a small company with around 200 users and we have a mix of windows, ubuntu and OS X. We are two ppl that manages all computers and servers and recently we had a large amount of new Mac users.
We bind all our computers to AD with our own scrip the installation and binding is fine. But after we are done and when we have given our user their new laptop we are struck with the feeling of "lack of control" and we can't help or administrate our Mac's.
My Question is:
What would I benefit from a OS X Server? If I decide to install one

You have a lot of management options.
You can use OS X Server and configured what has become known as the magic triangle. In this method, you bind all of your Macs to both the AD domain and the OD (OS X Server) domain. You then use the OD domain to create management groups and use MXC (managed client OS X) to establish the equivalent or group policy. In this method, you make no modifications to AD, work with native tools, and have a highly customization management solution. Ah, but here is the drawback... Apple is depreciating MCX in favor of Configuration Profiles.
So, if you are supporting only Lion or higher, you can opt to embrace profiles now. The problem is that under Lion, Profiles are not a complete port of MCX as profiles are weighted toward iOS right now. The writing is on the wall that this will change with the next OS release and desktop profile management will be more complete. Download a copy of Apple Configurator from the App store to get started. Or you can use OS X Server and launch the Profile Manager service to allow for push delivery of new profiles.
Now, if you are over 50 Macs or you have a blend of employee and employer owned devices, you might want to look into a management solution. I would suggest checking out JAMF as this will delivery everything you are imagining and then some.
There are other options also, such as schema modification, Absolute Manage, and some Windows centric tools that claim to manage Macs (Altiris has been claiming to have a Mac client for years but I've never actually seen it).
I suggest that you consider what your needs are regarding continued management. This decison should consider the ownership of the devices, what compliance you are trying to satisfy, the sensitivity of the data that is on the units, their portability, and what type of tracking you require.

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[01/20/2015 17:13:20.0084] [2] Beginning processing Set-SharedConfigDC
[01/20/2015 17:13:20.0178] [2] The call to Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology service on server 'TopologyClientTcpEndpoint (localhost)' returned an error. Error details No Minimal Required Number of Suitable Directory Servers
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[01/20/2015 17:13:20.0178] [2] No Minimal Required Number of Suitable Directory Servers Found in Forest mydomain.com Site Default-First-Site and connected Sites.
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1 X fresh install of Windows 2012 R2 which is domain joined
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Error:
The following error was generated when "$error.Clear();
$maxWait = New-TimeSpan -Minutes 8
$timeout = Get-Date;
$timeout = $timeout.Add($maxWait);
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$successfullySetConfigDC = $false;
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Start-Sleep -Seconds 30;
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" was run: "System.Exception: Unable to set shared config DC.
at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.WriteError(Exception exception, ErrorCategory category, Object target, Boolean reThrow, String helpUrl)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.WriteError(Exception exception, ErrorCategory category, Object target)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Deployment.WriteExchangeSetupLog.InternalProcessRecord()
at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.<ProcessRecord>b__b()
at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.InvokeRetryableFunc(String funcName, Action func, Boolean terminatePipelineIfFailed)".
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'{ mydomain.com}'
[01/20/2015 17:13:20.0084] [2] User specified parameters:
-DomainController:mydomain.com' -ErrorVariable:'setSharedCDCErrors' -ErrorAction:'SilentlyContinue'
[01/20/2015 17:13:20.0084] [2] Beginning processing Set-SharedConfigDC
[01/20/2015 17:13:20.0178] [2] The call to Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology service on server 'TopologyClientTcpEndpoint (localhost)' returned an error. Error details No Minimal Required Number of Suitable Directory Servers
Found in Forest mydomain.com Site Default-First-Site and connected Sites..
[01/20/2015 17:13:20.0178] [2] No Minimal Required Number of Suitable Directory Servers Found in Forest mydomain.com Site Default-First-Site and connected Sites.
[01/20/2015 17:13:20.0178] [2] The call to Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology service on server 'TopologyClientTcpEndpoint (localhost)' returned an error. Error details No Minimal Required Number of Suitable Directory Servers
Found in Forest mydomain.com Site Default-First-Site and connected Sites..
[01/20/2015 17:13:20.0178] [2] No Minimal Required Number of Suitable Directory Servers Found in Forest mydomain.com Site Default-First-Site and connected Sites.
[01/20/2015 17:13:20.0178] [2] Ending processing Set-SharedConfigDC
[01/20/2015 17:13:20.0193] [2] Beginning processing Write-ExchangeSetupLog
[01/20/2015 17:13:20.0193] [2] An error ocurred while setting shared config DC. Error: The call to Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology service on server 'TopologyClientTcpEndpoint (localhost)' returned an error. Error details
No Minimal Required Number of Suitable Directory Servers Found in Forest mydomain.com Site Default-First-Site and connected Sites..
[01/20/2015 17:13:20.0193] [2] Ending processing Write-ExchangeSetupLog
[01/20/2015 17:13:20.0193] [2] Beginning processing Write-ExchangeSetupLog
[01/20/2015 17:13:20.0193] [2] Waiting 30 seconds before attempting again.
[01/20/2015 17:13:20.0193] [2] Ending processing Write-ExchangeSetupLog
[01/20/2015 17:13:50.0195] [2] Beginning processing Write-ExchangeSetupLog
[01/20/2015 17:13:50.0273] [2] [ERROR] Unable to set shared config DC.
[01/20/2015 17:13:50.0273] [2] [ERROR] Unable to set shared config DC.
[01/20/2015 17:13:50.0288] [2] Ending processing Write-ExchangeSetupLog
[01/20/2015 17:13:50.0288] [1] The following 1 error(s) occurred during task execution:
[01/20/2015 17:13:50.0288] [1] 0. ErrorRecord: Unable to set shared config DC.
[01/20/2015 17:13:50.0288] [1] 0. ErrorRecord: System.Exception: Unable to set shared config DC.
 at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.WriteError(Exception exception, ErrorCategory category, Object target, Boolean reThrow, String helpUrl)
 at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.WriteError(Exception exception, ErrorCategory category, Object target)
 at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Deployment.WriteExchangeSetupLog.InternalProcessRecord()
 at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.<ProcessRecord>b__b()
 at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.InvokeRetryableFunc(String funcName, Action func, Boolean terminatePipelineIfFailed)
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$maxWait = New-TimeSpan -Minutes 8
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$currTime = Get-Date;
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try
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catch
Write-ExchangeSetupLog -Info ("An exception ocurred while setting shared config DC. Exception: " + $_.Exception.Message);
Write-ExchangeSetupLog -Info ("Waiting 30 seconds before attempting again.");
Start-Sleep -Seconds 30;
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 " was run: "System.Exception: Unable to set shared config DC.
 at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.WriteError(Exception exception, ErrorCategory category, Object target, Boolean reThrow, String helpUrl)
 at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.WriteError(Exception exception, ErrorCategory category, Object target)
 at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Deployment.WriteExchangeSetupLog.InternalProcessRecord()
 at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.<ProcessRecord>b__b()
 at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.InvokeRetryableFunc(String funcName, Action func, Boolean terminatePipelineIfFailed)".
[01/20/2015 17:13:50.0288] [1] [ERROR] Unable to set shared config DC.
[01/20/2015 17:13:50.0288] [1] [ERROR-REFERENCE] Id=AllADRolesCommonServiceControl___ee47ab1c06fb47919398e2e95ed99c6c Component=EXCHANGE14:\Current\Release\Shared\Datacenter\Setup
[01/20/2015 17:13:50.0288] [1] Setup is stopping now because of one or more critical errors.
[01/20/2015 17:13:50.0288] [1] Finished executing component tasks.
[01/20/2015 17:13:50.0304] [1] Ending processing Install-BridgeheadRole
Windows Event Viewer:
Process Microsoft.Exchange.Directory.TopologyService.exe (PID=5276) Forest mydomain.com. Exchange Active Directory Provider couldn't find minimal required number of suitable Global Catalog servers
in either the local site 'Default-First-Site' or the following sites:

Hi apl228,
1. Please make sure the IPv6 is enabled.
2. Please make sure the account that install Exchange server has Administrator permission.
3. Please make sure DNS has been configured correctly.
Thanks
Mavis Huang
TechNet Community Support

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The original post of this title which was located at http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=578342&tstart=200 subsequently disappeared into the ether (as with many other posts).
By request I am reposting the sample code which demonstrates receiving notifications of object changes on the Active Directory.
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* ldapnotify.java
* December 2004
* Sample JNDI application that uses AD LDAP Notification Control.
import java.util.Hashtable;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import javax.naming.*;
import javax.naming.ldap.*;
import com.sun.jndi.ldap.ctl.*;
import javax.naming.directory.*;
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     public String getID() {
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Hi Steven
How can I detect what change was made ? Is there an attribute that tell us ?
Thanks
MHM

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