SMB2 & You: Saying Goodbye to AFP in OS X Mavericks
Apple is deprecating AFP in favor of SMB2, which will have great impacts to enterprise environments, especially those which are a mix of Mac and Windows.
OS X Mavericks Core Technologies Overview
Apple has posted a document highlighting the core technologies of OS X Mavericks, which includes some changes from Mountain Lion. Among the new features is a change to the default file sharing protocol from AFP to SMB2. OS X has long supported SMB, but AFP has remained the default. AFP [...]
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WWDC 2013 Live Stream
Apple is doing a Live Stream for WWDC 2013 this year. Go to this page for the stream.
Read more›PSU MacAdmins Slides and Videos Now Available
The slides and videos for this year’s PSU MacAdmins is now available. You can find them here.
Read more›Notes from “More Munki Tricks” and “Practical Python for Mac Admins”
Here are some notes from my recent sessions at PSU MacAdmins: More Munki Tricks Slides Examples Practical Python for Mac Admins Slides Bonus Material It was a fantastic year at PSU MacAdmins and I look forward to next year.
Read more›Notes from “Security: Locking Down OS X Without Locking Up Users”
These are some resources from my Security session at PSU MacAdmins 2013: Slides - PSU MacAdmins 2013 Security Web resources: Managing OS X – Payload Free Package template Matt’s Mac Blog - Making use of the /etc/authorization file in Lion / 10.7.x Scripts: View the code on Gist. View the code on [...]
Read more›XProtect Changes
Apple has pushed some changes to XProtect. Rich Trouton has the details over on his blog.
Read more›Recovering Open Directory Databases
Working with Open Directory can be a great experience…until it isn’t. When your database goes up in flames (or perhaps if), it can be frustrating and maddening. Charles Edge has an article posted on what to do when your OD database decides to spontaneously corrupt itself.
Read more›Office 2011 14.3.4 Update
A new Office 2011 update was released as of 5/7/2013. This update requires only Office 2011 14.1.0, so it can be applied to a wide range of product versions. More info over on the Microsoft KB article.
Read more›Cursor Tracking Lag Caused by system_profiler
Has anyone else seen this issue? It has only been reproduced on Thunderbolt-equipped Macs while attached to Cinema Displays (Either Mini-Display Port or Thunderbolt). If you are able to test this on both Thunderbolt and Non-Thunderbolt Macs as well as Cinema and Third party displays, please leave the results of [...]
Read more›Testing Memory On Apple Computers
Charles Edge has an article posted about testing memory on Apple computers from the command line. If you have wanted to run a quick and easy memtest without booting to diagnostic media, then this is the answer you have been looking for.
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