Condrey Corporation announced yesterday, an agreement with Novell, Inc. to distribute Condrey Corporation’s popular Kanaka for eDirectory Mac client software for no charge to Novell Open Enterprise Server customers with current software maintenance agreements. The new Novell product will be branded Novell Kanaka for Mac and is available at the Novell Customer Center rather than download.novell.com as was specified in the press release.

Condrey Corporation will continue to provide direct support for Kanaka for eDirectory customers with Maintenance agreements. For Novell Kanaka for Mac users who want to work directly with the Condrey Corporation Support organization, you can purchase new Support Incident packs by contactingsales@condreycorp.com or calling 864-328-8528 Option 3.

Condrey Corporation will continue to distribute Kanaka for Active Directory on its own. 

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. 

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. 

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!

• 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

• 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

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

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.