Home drives Mountain Lion HELP

Hi
I am in need for desperate help. I have a Mac Pro Mountain Lion 10.8 Server and I need it to integrate with our active directory and create home folders on the Mac Server so users that log onto a Mac will have a separate home drive on the mac server.

Airplay only works with the newest Macs: http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html
http://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3761
Not sure why dictation doesn't work. 
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