Hi All,
Long time stalker, first time poster. We are hopefully running through the process and hope to have Casper in place for the new year. Currently a Symantec house and not enjoying the lack of features.
We are experiencing some very very inconsistent issues with AD authentication in our lab environments.
All machines are running 10.9 or higher. The full thick image deployed is essentially OOBE with our corporate apps installed. Not much tweaking is done aside from the lproj profile, local accounts, proxy and a mobile config applied that includes airport and bluetooth disabling, login window text, energy settings and a shared drive. User accounts are created locally based on a profile but not mobile so user credentials aren't stored after logout.
What happens is at the login screen "Networks Accounts are Unavailable" appears. Randomly. Sometimes after restart, sometimes after a user logs out, sometimes after waking from sleep. Always sometimes.
Sometimes restarting resolves it.
Sometimes reseating the network cable resolves it.
Sometimes rebinding to AD resolves it.
Sometimes logging in as a local user resolves it.
Removing the mobileconfig profile doesn't change anything.
Checked the System keychain - all appears fine.
AD Binding seems perfectly fine.
Time is always okay and set correctly.
There's never any consistency to the start or the resolution of the issue. I haven't been able to pin down a possible lapse of time that triggers it and I'm starting to pluck at straws that are very thin.
Can anyone suggest some further troubleshooting I can complete to help get to the bottom of the issue? All of our infrastructure teams are convinced this is an Apple issue and I have no idea where to start to push back.