Campus Active Directory - CADS Supported Apple Operating Systems

This document outlines Campus Active Directory Services (CADS) supported Apple Operating Systems.

Apple Operating Systems

The Campus Active Directory Service (CADS) team offers support for the following Apple Operating Systems.

Note: OS X 10.5 and prior versions are unsupported.
  • OS X 10.6      Snow Leopard      Best Effort Support
  • OS X 10.7      Lion
  • OS X 10.8      Mountain Lion
  • OS X 10.9      Mavericks
  • OS X 10.10    Yosemite
  • OS X 10.11    El Capitan
  • OS X 10.12    Sierra
  • OS X 10.13    High Sierra

Known Issue with OS X 10.6 binding to Active Directory when LDAP signing is required

Apple Support states that there are no reports of Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) clients successfully binding to AD when LDAP signing is required.  The majority of reports from Apple shows that upgrading to Mac OS X 10.7 or above is the only resolution to this issue.


Important Note: On Sunday September 29, 2013 Campus Active Directory will require LDAP signing and OS X 10.6 clients will no longer be able to bind and authenticate to Campus Active Directory.  Again, the only remediation for this issue is to upgrade to at least OS X 10.7.

Campus Active Directory support for Mac OS X 10.6 will continue to be "Best Effort" and support for binding and authenticating to the directory will not be supported.