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.
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.
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.
Go directly to step-by-step instructions. On July 10, 2011, DigiNotar.nl (a Netherlands CA) issued a fraudulent SSL certificate for the domain *.google.com, which would be valid for all google.com domains.
OS X Lion’s Recovery HD partition is required for some new Lion features, like FileVault 2 (http:/ /support.apple.com/kb/HT4649). Unfortunately NetRestore does not create this partition. A supported way of setting this partition up is to install a minimal OS X Lion system first.
Apple has announced that the Volume Purchase Program (VPP for short) is coming to business. The VPP allows organizations to purchase applications in bulk.
A new release of my monitoring plugin for Nagios (and compatible) monitoring solutions is available. This version includes some added hardware monitoring for HDD, Memory & CPU Usage. There are many bug fixes which clean up a lot of the (null) and 404 errors that were occurring when run from a OSX monitoring server.
The Situation: You have a Mac OS X Server with network home directories and disk quotas enabled. The Problem: The Mac OS Finder on client machines does not have very good support for warning users they are approaching their file quota limit.
Serving Diskless Netboot for your Macs without OS X Server With the official death of the Xserve, some of you may be looking at your future plans for services you currently provide. If you plan to migrate away from OS X server for some functions, NetBoot can be one of them.
