Along with Server 2.1 came a new setting in Profile Manager. This setting puts the Mac App Store into update-only mode. It grays out all the options except for the update pane. This is great news as we are faced with the prospect of more and more Mac App Store apps that will need to be deployed and updated.
All the sessions from this year's MacSysAdmin conference are now posted on their website for download. These sessions are a great resource for advancing your Mac Admin skills, so check them out.
Final Thoughts The lights have been turned off at MacSysAdmin '12 in Gothemburg.
Gary Larizza - Puppet Labs Have you ever wondered how many times we make changes to files or scripts in a deployment process? Gary Larizza did and in a volcanic session, explained how this can be kept under control by tracking changes using a powerful open-source tool called Git.
Zack Smith - 318 If you do not have Active Directory within your environment to deal with, you are probably a happy Macintosh system admin. If you do have to face the Microsoft authentication system, then you have to look at Zack Smith’s presentations.
Greg Neagle Senior Systems Engineer, Walt Disney Animation Studios Certainly anyone who is familiar with mass deployment knows who Greg Neagle is (pronounced Neigle as per request) and what he has done in terms of open source.
Edward Marczak - Google Is there any way to know what your beloved mac is doing when something is not working? Is there any weapon we can use to fight against people who think that everything works correctly and the problem is yours?
Today, the Mac is on the stage. It is the first day of MacSysAdmin 2012. In the last years, the appointment on the Swedish land has become one of the most important meeting for all the System Administrators who, every day, are involved with a considerable number of workstations to manage.
If you use Casper Suite or or planning on using it in the future, you will not want to miss the yearly JAMF Nation User Conference. In past years, they have had some great sessions on how to best leverage Casper Suite in the modern IT environment.
Just when we thought that the installer for Adobe Flash Player could not get worse, version 11.4 is released and revises our expectations yet again. As has been discussed on the Mac Enterprise Mailing list and as researched by Greg Neagle on his blog, 11.4 has some new quirks.
