Xsan 1.3 Released
The first Apple announcement at NAB 2006 is the release of Xsan 1.3 - the biggest improvement being the ability to use LUNs greater than 2TB, removing the need to slice your 7TB RAIDs.
Year: 2006
Automatic Email Quota Warnings
Filling in the holes where the system lags a bit, here's a quick way to get e-mail quota warnings out to your users So I got bitten this morning by a user who hit their IMAP quota limit and didn't get any alerts from Mail.app about it, possibly because he reckoned he hadn't quit Mail.app or logged out of his machine for about a month...
ARD 3 Released
Yes, it's here! With new features including remote Spotlight searches, remote drag and drop, shared clipboards, curtain mode, Automator actions, a task server and smart computer lists there's a veritable feast of stuff to get excited about.
Resizing Partitions at Last!
As of 10.4.6, if you've got a GPT partitioned disk, you can use diskutil from the command line to resize volumes... nigelkersten@zombie: ~ $ diskutil resizeVolume Disk Utility Tool Usage: diskutil resizeVolume [Mount Point|Disk Identifier|Device Node] size <part1Format part1Name part1Size> <part2Format part2Name part2Size> ...
Importing updated certificate requires previous to be first deleted.
If you are using the Server Admin GUI to update/replace an expiring certificate (say, from Verisign) with a newer one that has the same hostname/common name, here is tip so you don't get stumped: When looking to…
LabMan 2006 Lab Management conference
Lab Admins Unite! LabMan is a low-key, inexpensive, and friendly conference intended for people who manage, supervise or maintain computing labs in higher education, K-12, or library facilities regardless of platform or technology they maintain.
Boot Camp!
So, it's not exactly server related, but it's worth mentioning. Today Apple have released the public beta of Boot Camp - a piece of software to simplify the install of Windows XP SP2 on your Intel-based Mac.
AFP. It ain’t so bad….
From looking at the mailing lists and discussion boards, you'll see that a reasonable number of people seem to be having problems with their AFP servers under OS X Server 10.4.x, particularly under heavy load with network home directories, and particularly in terms of stability.
FSCK-ing a Big Storage Disk ‘On-the Fly’
Verifying large volumes can be a real pain, especially on systems that need to be up as much as possible. Here's some ideas on how to make this as painless as possible.
MacEnterprise.org System Imaging and Rosetta Webcast
The MacEnterprise.org group will be presenting a Webcast on Demystifying the transition: System Imaging and Rosetta on Wednesday, March 22nd at 1:00 pm EST. Please note, the day for this webcast is different than normal.