MacSysAdmin 2013 Session Slides and Videos Available
The session slides and videos from MacSysAdmin 2013 are now available here. Thanks to the MacSysAdmin team for getting them out so quickly!
Year: 2013
MacSysAdmin 2013 (Day 2)
Another day in Göteborg brought many more fascinating talks, including the first public talk on autopkg. For those using JAMF Casper, Marko Jung from the University of Oxford showed how by adding many modules to Self Service, users have been empowered to do many tasks with the click of a button which would normally require a help desk call.
Calling all ears! AFP548 has a podcast!
AFP548 has always been about community: like-minded folks found their way to the Apple platform, and some of us even made a career out of supporting "Enterprise at your own risk"(copyright Nate Walck.
MacSysAdmin 2013 (Day 1)
Hello from Göteborg! The first day of MacSysAdmin 2013 is over, and there have been great presentations from many members of the Apple community. Ed Marczak kicked things off with a look at the future from the past and present, showing how predictions of the future are bound to deviate far from reality.
Don’t Miss MacTech 2013
MacTech 2013 is one of the premier Mac Admin conferences of the year and as such you should definitely not miss it. MacTech is packed full of great activities like pre-conference workshops, sessions and most importantly, time to network with your fellow Mac Admins.
Enabling Location Services Programmatically
Location Services is an important part of OS X, but it is not obvious on how to enable it without going through the System Preferences GUI. The preference that controls it is not in /Library/Preferences, and due to cfprefsd it is hard to find.
MacTech Pre-Conference Workshops
If you are going to the MacTech Conference this year, you should check out the Workshops that are being offered on November 5th, the day before the Conference starts. These Workshops are designed to prepare you for and then complete a certification/accreditation or give you an in-depth look at a specific topic.
MacTech Conference 2013 Sessions Announced!
MacTech Conference 2013 has been announced, and will be taking place from November 6-8 in Los Angeles, California. Last year's conference was packed day and night with great content and activities, and this year looks to be even better.
Making an OS X Template for use with vSphere 5.1
If you use ESXi/vSphere, then you may know how handy templates can be for rolling out new services, test boxes and the like. Apparently you can makes templates for vSphere that have never been booted (zero chance of cruft to mess with your testing).
Clear text access to ARD’s passwords database!
ARD-Inspector is open source donationware which was made for OS X system administrators and consultants who need to recover a computer password from Apple Remote Desktop. To make this tool, it required me to do some reverse engineering of Apple Remote Desktop.