WWDC 2013 Details Announced
The details about WWDC 2013 have been posted. It will be from June 10-14, registration opens on April 25th (Tomorrow!) at 10am PDT, 1pm EST. Check it out here.
Year: 2013
Package Install Conditions in Munki
Jeremy Reichman has a post outlining how to add an installable_condition to a given piece of software in Munki. This key allows you to specify requirements for a package based upon a NSPredicate and information that Munki knows about the machine.
Real World Example: 500 iPads from Boxes to Students
One of the rising topics of discussion that continually returns to every single Mac Admin conference, gathering, and website is the deployment of iPads.
Running Java 7 in a VMware Fusion 10.8.x VM
For those of you who do application testing inside of an OS X VMware VM, you may have noticed that Java does not work properly. Rich has a good summary of the status of running Java inside a VM and even a fix that VMWare has provided which patches Java so it will run properly.
Moving a physical OS X machine to a VMware VM
Virtualization is an extremely useful tool to have at your disposal. If you have ever wanted to transfer a physical machine's OS X install to a virtual machine, you know that VMWare does not make a tool for doing so. They provide one for Linux and Windows, but not for OS X.
Setting the default boot drive from Boot Selector
Apparently you can set the default boot volume right from the EFI Boot Disk Selector. Rich has the details over on his blog.
Managing Safari’s Java Whitelist
Safari has a new feature that lets you whitelist specific websites for use with Java. This feature is extremely helpful to ensure that internal company websites that need Java can still run while possibly malicious external websites are not permitted to run by default.
XProtectWatch, now with more Notifications
Justin Rummel has updated his XProtectWatch tool so that it triggers a Notification whenever the XProtect plist is updated. This is not a system to manage the XProtect settings but rather a tool to notify you when XProtect gets a new configuration.
Logging on OS X Server
Justin Rummel has a writeup on how to enable various log files on OS X server and where to view them at. Pretty good look at how you might go about logging for the sake of security, troubleshooting or even curiosity.
10.8.3 is out, but which models are supported by it?
Greg has two posts that go over which models are supported by the "unified" 10.8.3 Installer. Check out the details in his first post about 10.8.3 and a follow-up that covers newer models.