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Have you installed OS X Lion Server yet?
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Wednesday, December 21 2011 @ 06:56 pm MST
Contributed by: MacTroll
Views: 2,528
 Google has begun releasing some of their internal tools for managing their Macs. The first project up there allows you to track application useage on client systems using crankd. You can see the code on their Google Code page here. Go to the source tab and then browse to see the code files.
Monday, December 19 2011 @ 09:09 am MST
Contributed by: arekdreyer
Views: 2,065
 Apple released their new Lion Server Advanced Administration documentation. Has anyone yet analyzed what's new? I filed an enhancement request asking for them to flag the differences.
Monday, December 05 2011 @ 09:04 am MST
Contributed by: MacTroll
Views: 2,301
 Looking to integrate Snow Leopard Server and AD? Use this integration guide to help you through the process. You can find it in the downloads section here.
Monday, October 17 2011 @ 07:25 am MDT
Contributed by: MacTroll
Views: 3,392
 Whether you made it to the MacSysAdmin 2011 conference or not... they have graciously made the documentation from some of the sessions available here.
Friday, October 14 2011 @ 05:12 pm MDT
Contributed by: Allister
Views: 2,950
 Hey folks, It's been a while since we InstaDMG-ers were at the forefront of people's minds, and it may seem like the whole IT landscape has changed. I wanted to briefly drop you a line with a few tidbits and subtle reminders. For one thing, did you know InstaDMG (and InstaUp2Date) is not just Lion-ready, but can now build images for (and on) Lion Server? New catalogs, downloads and revised docs are imminent, keep checking the instadmg.googlecode.com site and follow the @OSX_adm twitterbot (trendy!) Also, please understand that while InstaDMG was a early star in the modular image creation revolution, which helped turn the spotlight on packages and powerful image-building, it's merely a tool that fits a need. Just because Greg Neagle developed and released a Lion upgrade package (which complements his work on Munki) doesn't mean it could be utilized with InstaDMG. Likewise, many have hoped InstaDMG could address certain needs involving the recovery partition Lion introduces, but please remember, that's just an additional, somewhat static partition. So when looking over tools in your chest, old (like NetRestore, hallowed be its name) and new-ish (like DeployStudio, which can extract and lay down recovery partitions with aplomb), please remember that InstaDMG is still an effective hammer. Your problem may just not be a nail, and that's A-OK. Thanks for listening!
Thursday, October 13 2011 @ 06:59 am MDT
Contributed by: macshome
Views: 3,049
 No doubt you are still recovering from the tidal wave of software updates that Apple let go yesterday. We've cut through the bulk of it to find the things that will interest us sysadmin ties the most! Lion Server 10.7.2 brings quite a few changes, here are some highlights: - When SSL is involved your Lion clients should now be able to bind to OD
- Time Machine now backs up the PostgreSQL database correctly
- Server App now lets you specify the data location for services
- Server App now lets you setup more than on website
- NetRestore now correctly creates the Lion Recovery partition
Profile Manager got a few good updates as well: - You can actually import a list of placeholder devices now from Safari
- All the new management features of iOS 5 are supported
- You can now push and remove in-house applications to iOS devices
Of course you also get all the things that the client update brings as well such as vastly improved AD interoperability. You can check out all the details on Apple.com OS X Lion Server 10.7.2 UpdateDeploying Enterprise Apps for iOSProfile Manager: Deploying Managed Apps
Monday, October 10 2011 @ 07:27 pm MDT
Contributed by: MacTroll
Views: 2,152
 Greetings!We are happy to announce that the call for proposals for the Penn State MacAdmins Conference 2012 is now open! The conference will take place May 8 - May 10, 2012 in University Park, PA. We have been busy planning this next conference for anyone who does system administration and IT support of Macs and iOS devices. While we continue to work on other details of this next conference, we have a few that we can share now: Speakers Needed!Please submit your proposal to speak at the Penn State MacAdmins Conference 2012. We're looking for any content that reflects system administration and IT support of Macs and iOD devices. Accepted speakers will receive a complimentary conference pass and free parking. Submissions will be accepted until Friday, February 1, 2012. To view topic suggestions and to submit your proposal please visit: http://macadmins.psu.edu/conference/proposals2012ScheduleCome join us for three days of informative sessions on Mac system administration and iOS device management. The conference is scheduled from Tuesday, May 8 through Thursday, May 10, 2012. The attendee registration fee will be announced when registration is opened. With your registration you will get access to three days of top-notch technical content, catered breakfast, lunch, afternoon service, and free wireless access. Conference UpdatesTwitter: For up-to-the-minute updates, follow us on Twitter at @PSUMacAdmns and watch for our #psumacconf hash tag. RSS: The feed is available at http://macadmins.psu.edu/ for conference updates. Please free to tag your blogs, Flickr photos, YouTube videos, and Delicious bookmarks with the #psumacconf tag, which we will be aggregating on the site. If you have any questions, please e-mail macadmins-conf@psu.edu. Hope to see you there! The Penn State MacAdmins Conference Team
Thursday, October 06 2011 @ 10:24 am MDT
Contributed by: MacManager
Views: 5,401
 You can use the following command to disable the 'reopen windows when logging back in' option in Lion: defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LoginwindowLaunchesRelaunchApps -bool false
Wednesday, September 21 2011 @ 03:29 pm MDT
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 3,901
 While in Snow Leopard you may have had to script you way to fame and money to get your Mac to get a certificate from a Microsoft CA, in Lion it's mostly done for you. Take a look at this support document for the gory details on using a profile to get your Mac to request a certificate. Note that you can do all of this by hand, or by script, in XML and then distribute through whatever means you want to your Lion systems.
Tuesday, September 13 2011 @ 01:52 pm MDT
Contributed by: macshome
Views: 2,961
 Apple released SecUpd 2011-005 for both Lion and Snow Leopard back on 9/9/2011 to deal with the DigiNotar CA compromise. It would be a good idea to roll that one out to your clients as soon as you can! Security Update 2011-005 info can be found here.
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Cylinder of Destiny or Golden ...Cylinder of Destiny or Golden ... Started by: tslarkin, Tuesday, December 06 2011 @ 01:56 pm MST Views:629, Replies:6 Last reply by: ivaldiz
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Friday, January 27 2012 @ 07:57 am MSTI just tested importing AD group, i
created a fresh new one and put two test
users as members of that group.. and I'm
having the same issue, it will import
the group but not the users within that
group, so its definitely something up
with lion server not w
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SMB print with KerberosSMB print with Kerberos Started by: Confusion, Tuesday, January 24 2012 @ 04:15 pm MST Views:115, Replies:4 Last reply by: Confusion
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Thursday, January 26 2012 @ 09:09 pm MSTokay it looks as though the command that
i said DOES in fact set kerberos even
though it does not show it through the
cups page.
I have confirmed printing is
working and is authenticating
correctly.
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| Open Directory |
Lion 7.2, LDAP, Binding, Searc...Lion 7.2, LDAP, Binding, Searc... Started by: z1ggur4t, Wednesday, January 25 2012 @ 07:57 pm MST Views:64, Replies:1 Last reply by: z1ggur4t
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Thursday, January 26 2012 @ 07:12 pm MSTI have some tips having solved my own
problem now. If your interested let me
know and i'll post them...
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AD Magic Triagle AutoMount woe...AD Magic Triagle AutoMount woe... Started by: chill3r, Thursday, January 26 2012 @ 09:14 am MST Views:57, Replies:0
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Thursday, January 26 2012 @ 09:14 am MSTHi Guys, great site with a wealth of
information - Great work.
Now onto my
problems.
Setup :
We have 39 iMacs
in a Mac suite - all on 10.6.8
We
have a server 10.6.8
We have this
Server OD bound to an Active Directory
for Login etc - this wo
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| Active Directory |
Can't bind Lion Server to ADCan't bind Lion Server to AD Started by: zvordauk, Thursday, August 18 2011 @ 07:51 am MDT Views:1614, Replies:3 Last reply by: Malcolm Rikeur
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Thursday, January 26 2012 @ 04:24 am MSTI came across this yesterday, binding
from Server.app's "Manage" menu (as
Apple recommend) gave me the error.
I
bound from Directory Utility and all was
fine.
... and a clean install of 10.7.2
server highly recommended for AD
integration generally.
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| InstaDMG |
Proxy PopupProxy Popup Started by: Confusion, Wednesday, January 18 2012 @ 08:32 pm MST Views:360, Replies:5 Last reply by: larkost
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Wednesday, January 25 2012 @ 09:12 am MSTThat is not fixing the problem, that is
(near litteraly) killing the messenger.
The User Notification Center is used by
a number of backgroun processes to...
well... notify the user of things that
they probably need to know. You have
just killed that commu
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| InstaDMG |
InstallerChoices.xml applying ...InstallerChoices.xml applying ... Started by: cassian, Sunday, January 22 2012 @ 10:27 pm MST Views:148, Replies:0
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Sunday, January 22 2012 @ 10:27 pm MSTAhoy,
I've been lurking around the
place for a year or so, but finally "got
serious" about building images with
InstaDMG/InstaUp2Date and have run into
a slight issue.
I've got an
installerchoices.xml file that appears
to be working fine for the bas
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Proxy PopupProxy Popup Started by: Confusion, Wednesday, January 18 2012 @ 08:27 pm MST Views:102, Replies:0
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Wednesday, January 18 2012 @ 08:27 pm MSTHi guys there i have built an instaDMG
image and have everything working fine
except for one last annoying bug that i
cant work out.
There is a proxy
authentication box that pops up and can
not be cancelled. It also comes in front
of all other windows.
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Concurrent instances of InstaD...Concurrent instances of InstaD... Started by: bw38, Monday, December 26 2011 @ 06:30 am MST Views:1154, Replies:2 Last reply by: larkost
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Sunday, January 15 2012 @ 11:06 am MSTActualy, the installer works just fine
in parallel in normal cases. The reason
you can't have multiple concurrent
InstaDMG processes is that we have to
cheat a bit to get more instlalers to
work and so put one of the background
daemons in a chroot jail tha
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3 small questions3 small questions Started by: ramuntcho, Tuesday, January 10 2012 @ 02:59 pm MST Views:669, Replies:3 Last reply by: thespider
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Wednesday, January 11 2012 @ 01:07 pm MSTYes, it makes more sense to use the user
template and script the files you need,
but the home folders are not created
until a user logs in (IIRC).
Using a
launchd agent that checks the user
logging in and copies files might work,
Or a login hook.
Sound
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| Questions and Answers |
Move user data to new hard dri...Move user data to new hard dri... Started by: gilsurf, Tuesday, January 10 2012 @ 06:19 pm MST Views:185, Replies:0
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Tuesday, January 10 2012 @ 06:19 pm MSTOn an Xserve (intel, 10.6), I need to
move user data (AFP home folders) from
one internal drive to another internal
drive. The drive has group and user
data. it will be all of the user data,
thus one complete share will move. What
issues do I need to prepa
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| Questions and Answers |
Adaptive Firewall Rules with a...Adaptive Firewall Rules with a... Started by: l008com, Friday, June 13 2008 @ 01:40 pm MDT Views:3362, Replies:8 Last reply by: jgardner
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Monday, January 09 2012 @ 01:45 pm MSTHere's a version that resets the rule
numbering, but keeps the existing
blacklisted hosts and TTLs
intact.
[code]
#!/bin/sh
BF=/var/db/af/blacklist
MAX=`/usr/bin/cut
-f3 $BF | /usr/bin/sort -n |
/usr/bin/tail -1`
if [ $MAX -gt 12000
]
then
/bin/
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| Active Directory |
Single sign On without OD. Single sign On without OD. Started by: gleventhal, Monday, January 09 2012 @ 01:35 pm MST Views:269, Replies:0
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Monday, January 09 2012 @ 01:35 pm MSTAnyone know of a situation using 10.6 &
10.7 clients directly bound to AD where
SSO works? What needs to happen to make
this work? As of now, I can login, but
each of the Servers that normally don't
require a password from the PC DO
require a password fr
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Mac Systems Administrator Need...Mac Systems Administrator Need... Started by: Brett K., Thursday, October 30 2008 @ 08:14 am MDT Views:1614, Replies:2 Last reply by: chu082011
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Sunday, January 08 2012 @ 07:50 pm MST[QUOTE][u]Quote by: Simple1[/u][p]has
the position been filled? I saw this as
recent of this year and was wondering
what the status was.[/p][/QUOTE]
I
agreed with you. Thanks for all. I have
got some my ideals.
Tks again and pls
keep posting.
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