The first day of MacIT 2013 was packed full of valuable sessions. From Chip Pearson's moving talk regarding the future of the Mac Administrator community to the various sessions covering security topics, iOS and BYOD environments.
With the increased rate of Java vulnerabilities as of late, it has been a real chore keeping track of what needs to be done with Java for your organization. If you use Java-based apps or webapps and you can not just disable all the plugins, you must have some way of allowing people to continue using some version of Java.
MacIT 2013 has kicked off in Moscone West. The first session opened with some brief items that everyone should know regarding OS X Mountain Lion as well as an overview of conference sessions that cover some specific Mountain Lion topics.
As a reminder, MacIT is hosting an AFP548 Birds of a Feather gathering .
Virtualization is becoming more prevalent in the enterprise (if not the standard for many places). How does one virtualize OS X and at what cost you may ask? You can do it for free, believe it or not, using ESXi. ESXi officially supports Mac Pros (the "newest" revision) and unofficially works on Mac Minis.
A new Flash Player has come out and it is worse than before or perhaps the Adobe CS Suite is nuking itself randomly. What do these issues both have in common you might ask? The answer is that you've not told Adobe about your issues.
DeployStudio 1.5.16 (I guess we're finally done with the RC status?) was released yesterday. Check the change log and download it here.
If you have ever needed to package up and deploy python modules or ruby gems, you know that it is kind of a pain. It is a very manual process. Enter FPM (Effing Package Management) with its newly minted osxpkg support. Thanks to Tim Sutton's recent contribution to fpm, you can now roll Apple Packages.
Graham Gilbert has an official post declaring Crypt to be in beta status. Crypt is a great alternative to many of the paid solutions for FileVaule 2 escrow. Rich Trouton gave us an early look at Crypt when it was more alpha-ish and it was looking really good.
With the recent CS6 serialization issues that popped up, many have been wondering how to fix this in a repeatable/deployable fashion. Greg Neagle has some good links regarding this issue here and here.
