Archive for category: Odds and Ends

Sponsored by IronGate Server Management & Consulting, in association with Digital Transitions the next OS X Integrators Birds of a Feather gathering is taking place at MaRS Discovery District on College St. at University Ave., Toronto, Canada on Wed Sept 27th from 6PM-8PM.

This bi-monthly seminar series aims to introduce administrators and technical co-ordinators to real life implementations of OS X and OS X Server, in a wide range of practical situations. Presentations are given by industry experts and/or system administrators, in a format which fosters open discussions and group collaboration. Topics to be touched upon this month will be Mastering images, NetBoot, NetRestore, and automation of imaging.

Registration and more details of the event are available on Apple’s Seminar Website.

In September Apoio will be hosting a 2-day conference for Mac Sysadmins from Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
The Nordic Macintosh System Administrators Meeting 2006 will have sessions on Deploying Apple Technology in IT Centric Markets and will concentrate on WWDC 2006 from a Sysadmin perspective, Scripting – how to chose language and three sessions on case studies of Mac OS X implementations.

Half of the conference time will be devoted to group discussions.

More info at http://macsysadmin.se (In Swedish)

Sponsored by IronGate Server Management & Consulting, in association with Digital Transitions the innagural OS X Integrators Birds of a Feather gathering is taking place at MaRS Discovery District on College St. at University Ave., Toronto, Canada on Tues June 13th from 6PM-8PM.

This bi-monthly seminar series aims to introduce administrators and technical co-ordinators to real life implementations of OS X and OS X Server, in a wide range of practical situations. Presentations are given by industry experts and/or system administrators, in a format which fosters open discussions and group collaboration.

Registration and more details of the event are available on Apple’s Seminar website

A new Apple public mailing list is up, macosx-interop, for discussing the integration of Mac OS X and Mac OS X server into UNIX (all flavors) and Windows networks. You can subscribe here:

http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-interop

Here’s the official charter:
The Mac OS X Interoperability List is for discussing how to integrate Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server into of UNIX and Windows networks. In particular, the goal is to enable community discussions regarding authentication, file sharing, administration, and other challenges of using Macs in multiplatform environments. This is different from the Mac OS X server mailing lists in that the focus is on the network administrator, who may well be using non-Mac servers with Mac clients (or vice versa).

This should provide a more targeted list than the high-volume Mac OS X Server list for those who want to discuss just interoperability.

When dealing with funky network issues it’s handy to be able to tweak configd a bit to see what’s going on. We have an older article on configd that explains more of what it does, but here are some quick thoughts on getting more debugging and other options out of configd on 10.4.

Read the latest installment, outlining some of the best software choices, techniques and practices for backing up your Mac OS X Server.

On behalf of the MacEnterprise.org Steering Committee, we would like to extend an invitation to everyone to attend the MacEnterprise Day in San Francisco. This FREE meeting and conference event will be held Sunday June 5, 2005, one day prior to the opening of Apple’s WWDC 2005.

We will be discussing topics relating to all aspects of deployment of macs in the enterprise, including:

-Directory Services
-Beginning your Enterprise deployment
-Network Home Directories and Directory Services
-Parallel computing, including XGrid and Pooch
-Apple Remote Desktop innovation
-Advanced troubleshooting
-Enterprise Streaming Services, including Audio and Video

as well as roundtable discussions about what’s hot in the enterprise today!

Registration is now open, and seating is limited. For more information, please visit:

http://macenterprise.org/enterpriseday

The MacEnterprise.org (formerly MacOSXLabs.org) group will be presenting a “ADmitMac” WebCast

Tuesday, September 21 at 1:00 pm EDT. Paul Nelson, V.P of Engineering at Thursby Software Systems, will be presenting on ADmitMac, a tool that integrates Macintosh machines into Microsoft networks.

For the case study we have Michael Perbix, a Telecommunications Specialist from the Lower Merion School District, presenting on his experience in integrating their mostly-Mac environment with an existing Active Directory infrastructure using ADmitMac.

For more information on how to watch this WebCast, please visit the MacEnterprise.org webcast web page:

http://www.macenterprise.org/webcasts/webcasts_next.html

Note that the broadcast ID needed to view the webcast has changed to ‘macenterprise’!!

Jeff Greene
macenterprise.org (macosxlabs.org)
Webcast Coordinator

Are you on a Cisco Network – and need to know just what switch and port you are on?

try the cdpr tool –

A script to back up your OD Server

This will dump your LDAP, Password Server and Kerberos KDC databases to a backup folder. Get it in the downloads section here.