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MS Office 2008 Preference Manifests

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:53:00 -0500

So the gang over at Quest Software has been working really hard on their Mac OS X management software. As a side effect of that, they have put together some Preference Manifests for MS Office 2008.

You can use these with anything that uses manifest such as Workgroup Manager or Quest's Authentication Services offerings. (Ed. note: We've updated the Quest product to be the correct one.)

We've offered to host them here and please do note that these are experimental and come with no support.

In the download you get a few things.

A read me
A MS AutoUpdate manifest
A MS Excel manifest
A MS Word manifest
A general MS Office manifest

Good stuff all the way around if you want to manage Office 2008.

Grab the goods here.

Enjoy!

WWDC 2009 Wrapup

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:00:23 -0500

So WWDC 2009 is wrapping up now and it was a ton of fun.

Everyone has seen the publicly announced stuff, but for us server fans the best bits were behind closed doors. We can hardly wait for the release to come so that we can tell you all about it!

In the meantime you can browse around the public Snow Leopard Server pages and get an idea of the fun that is in store. It's going to be great.

Reader Haiku Collection

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:26:06 -0500

And now... in all their glory, the haiku submissions from our WWDC party contest.

We present them in no particular order with names removed to protect the guilty.

Read on for the collection...

the stage has its Phil
the jobs created by Jobs
we wait and we watch

Steve, chagrinned, won't show
Body sounds iphone app devs here
Was not part of plan

iPhone or Palm Pre
A Difficult Decision
Phil Will Make it Clear

Snow Leopard will be
Snowless in Frisco fog bank
She won't break a sweat

The long line beckons
Determined people wait
Is there a new phone?

Sent from my iPhone:
The default signature,
I have not changed.

Dawdled too long in
that CoreNetInfo session;
Odwalla's all gone.

Summer sessions give way
Enterprise falls by the wayside
Now the party starts anew

Server sputters off
Someone kicked the power cord
A long night ahead

This year a Phil note
Gone is the black turtleneck
Bring back the Steve note

iPhone Video
Floating on boat from China?
Or is still forming?

Will they release it?
Future of tech universe
iPhone three point oh!

Goin to San Fran
Gonna Eat Lots Of Apples
New iPhones Galore

went to san fran
drank the kool-aid with gusto
now must buy new toy

hey guys check this out
it is my brand new palm pre
please stop hitting me

The iPhone has killed
any remaining hope of
a good I.T. track.

Steve Jobs is better
My iPhone is not as good
Need a new one Steve

The tiger grows old
King of the jungle no more.
Snow leopard awaits

Sharepoint no connect.
Directory services,
broken once again.

Compile it won’t
The night stretches into dawn.
Closing bracket blues.

Error 404.
Apache waits for its friend:
user www.

Whiskey and cointreau
Smokey orange flavour delight.
Why does Joel drink it.

Bork a birk, borking
A borka birk, birk borka
Borka, Christer bork...

Out west, in late spring
Herds of geeks, roaming merrily
Look! They pwnd iphone

Oh Steve, where art thou?
Too many iPhone newbies
Few caldav sessions.

WWDC 2009 Reader Party is a Wrap!

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:50:57 -0500

Yesterday was a lot of fun at WWDC. New hardware, new OS announcements, and the AFP548.com WWDC reader party! Turnout was great and everyone had an awesome time.

Once again we give major thanks to the party sponsors, GroupLogic and LANrev. These guys pitch in out of commitment to the community and they never fail to amaze us with their support.

As always though the real life of the party was all of you! The readers that continually put more into the Mac OS X community than they take. We throw the party as a way for all of you to hang out, relax, and have a great time. On every level our readers never let us down.

Thanks,

AFP548.com Staff

Follow AFP548.com on Twitter!

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:07:21 -0500

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WWDC 2009 Party Contest the Fourth

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:36:19 -0500

It's finally here!! The one everyone waits for, the WWDC haiku contest.

We've already had some early entries like this one:

Oh Steve, where art thou?
Too many iPhone newbies
Few caldav sessions.

But we have space left so get yours in. E-mail it to wwdc2009@afp548.com. Winners will be posted, printed on the wall at the party and will possibly have to have a live recitation at the party...

And yes, we are compiling the list of the article topics from the first contest. We'll have those up shortly.

WWDC2009 Party Contest the Third

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:50:00 -0500

Same as the Second contest:

The first 12 people to e-mail wwdc2009@afp548.com with the names and e-mails of two people wins tickets for both of those people.

We'll do one more, the dreaded haiku contest on Friday. Which means if you want tickets and you haven't gotten them by Friday, just come up with a cheesey haiku. We've got some space left and we normally don't get that many haikus in.

Modular Imaging Goes Professional!

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:10:35 -0500

It's with some excitement here that we bring to you JAMF Software's announcement of a public beta of their new imaging suite which heavily features the same modular methodology present in InstaDMG.

The JAMF Imaging Suite, from the people behind Casper, combines the best of Composer with a workflow-focused methodology to allow you to easily manage building a number of images in parallel for all of your users.

Get more info on it and sign up for the public beta here.

Integrating the Mac into a Windows Infrastructure - 5 Case Studies

Wed, 27 May 2009 20:42:02 -0500

The Enterprise Desktop Alliance invites you to attend a new webinar to help IT professionals learn how to integrate Macs into your Windows enterprise environment. Please join us to discover how organizations like yours are getting more from their Mac installations without increasing their overhead.

Integrating the Mac into a Windows Infrastructure - 5 Case Studies
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 at 10am PT/1pm ET

Register and watch here.

If you're late to the party, it will be recorded for later veiwing.

In the webinar, you will:
See five case studies that demonstrate how your peers are deploying, integrating and managing Macs in their organizations
Learn how to meet the needs of the business and the users when you integrate Macs
Hear strategies and technologies that keep the total cost of Mac ownership comparable to Windows systems

Mobile Accounts for students

Wed, 27 May 2009 11:33:40 -0500

Ed. Note: This is a fairly common question that we get. Sizing is always a pain, especially when you're moving into a new setup. So if you have any wisdom on the matter, please post in the comments.

We are a K-12 school (K-8 at one site and 6-12 at the other) that is using a Mac Pro at each site to house home folders as well as run OD

My first question is this: Should one server be handling both of these tasks? If not, is there a economical way to change this. I ask because when a class atempts to logon, there is a serious bottle-neck! To eliminate this at one site, I made the older students (that have larger home folders) mobile with assigned seating in the lab of iMacs. This seems to have solved the speed issue and I'd like to try something similar at the other site which has a laptop cart of macbooks as its lab.

So here's the second question: How many accounts can live on a single workstation and work well?

Any help you could offer would be great!

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