Last Fall, a discussion arose on the MacEnterprise list about deployment terminology, with the term “thin imaging” coming in as the winner for variety of (conflicting) definitions. (You can read the thread from the beginning or jump on when the discussion turns to terminology.
Apple has pushed some changes to XProtect. Rich Trouton has the details over on his blog.
Working with Open Directory can be a great experience...until it isn't. When your database goes up in flames (or perhaps if), it can be frustrating and maddening.
A new Office 2011 update was released as of 5/7/2013. This update requires only Office 2011 14.1.0, so it can be applied to a wide range of product versions. More info over on the Microsoft KB article.
Has anyone else seen this issue? It has only been reproduced on Thunderbolt-equipped Macs while attached to Cinema Displays (Either Mini-Display Port or Thunderbolt). If you are able to test this on both Thunderbolt and Non-Thunderbolt Macs as well as Cinema and Third party displays, please leave the results of your testing in the comments.
Charles Edge has an article posted about testing memory on Apple computers from the command line.
After some undocumented options were found in the asr tool, Greg Neagle started digging around some other commands to see if he could find any other hidden options. The result of this interest has lead to some methods for finding hidden options in any command, although his specific example involves softwareupdate.
Let's face it, OS X makes a great stable client platform but the server components do not scale well. That is probably why most big companies rely on some other component to have the infrastructure and then us, the Mac admins, spend a lot of time on the integration.
JAMF Software just recently released Casper Suite 8.7 along with their new education-aimed tool Casper Focus. I had a chance to play around with it and test it out the past two days, so you can decide if this is something worth pursuing for yourselves.
Installing printers via lpadmin on OS X can be a pain, especially if you do not know the names of the specific options you need for the printer (Duplex, Finisher, etc). You can dig through the .ppd if you'd like, but this is not as helpful as you might hope.
