Articles by: andrina

If you’ve been following the #JNUC twitter hashtag you’ll know that the first morning of the 2013 JNUC has been a busy one! Chip Pearson, CEO and Managing Director of JAMF Software, started off the morning with a captivating keynote. This is my 3rd year attending the JNUC and in […]

LANrev announced today that their InstallEase automated packaging tool is now free.

InstallEase is a tool for creating installer packages and has functionalities like automated "Before" and "After" snapshots, installation of files to current user's home folder, exclusion filters and uninstaller packages all wrapped into a graphical user interface for administrators.

Registration is required to get the free download, and is available here –http://www.lanrev.com/solutions/installease.shtml

Sponsored by IronGate Server Management & Consulting, in association with Digital Transitions the next OS X Integrators Birds of a Feather gathering is taking place at MaRS Discovery District on College St. at University Ave., Toronto, Canada on Wednesday February 6th from 7:00PM-9:00PM.

In this session Steve Hayman will be talking about the state of scripting in Mac OS X 10.5, including recent changes to Applescript, Automator, and other scripting tools. Among other things we'll show off some of the ways that scripting lets you extend Apple Remote Desktop to simplify some common tasks. Why wait for Apple to add the features you need when you can script many of them yourself? 

Registration and more details of the event are available on Apple's Seminar Website 

Sponsored by IronGate Server Management & Consulting, in association with Digital Transitions the next OS X Integrators Birds of a Feather gathering is taking place at MaRS Discovery District on College St. at University Ave., Toronto, Canada on Thursday November 22nd from 7:00PM-9:00PM.

In this session we're looking to carry on from our previous session on the fundamentals of Directory Systems. We plan to cover integration methods to allow authentication against a 3rd party directory structure while retaining management of your OS X workstations from Open Directory's managed client settings. This seminar series aims to introduce administrators and technical co-ordinators to real life implementations of OS X and OS X Server, in a wide range of practical situations. Presentations are given by industry experts and/or system administrators, in a format which fosters open discussions and group collaboration.

Registration and more details of the event are available on Apple's Seminar Website.

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Sponsored by IronGate Server Management & Consulting, in association with Digital Transitions the next OS X Integrators birds of a Feather gathering is taking place in the Apple Market Center, Markham, Canada on Wednesday September 12th from 7:00PM-9:00PM.

In this session we’re looking to carry on from our previous session on the fundamentals of Directory Systems. We plan to cover integration with a “Golden Triangle” method to allow authentication against a 3rd party directory structure while retaining management of your OS X workstations from Open Directory’s managed client settings. This seminar series aims to introduce administrators and technical co-ordinators to real life implementations of OS X and OS X Server, in a wide range of practical situations. Presentations are given by industry experts and/or system administrators, in a format which fosters open discussions and group collaboration.

Registration and more details of the event are available on Apple’s Seminar Website.

Along with all the iApp/iMac announcements yesterday, Apple quietly released an internal hardware RAID card for the Intel Xserve as well as a PCI Express RAID card for the Mac Pro.

Read on for more details… 

Sponsored by IronGate Server Management & Consulting, in association with Digital Transitions the next OS X Integrators Birds of a Feather gathering is taking place at MaRS Discovery District on College St. at University Ave., Toronto, Canada on Tuesday March 20th from 6:30PM-8:30PM.

In this session we’re looking to provide an understanding of how directory services work in general, how directory services are implemented on Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server, and how to configure Mac OS X to integrate into an Active Directory setup. We plan to cover Open Directory on OS X Server and integration into an existing Active Directory environment.
This seminar series aims to introduce administrators and technical co-ordinators to real life implementations of OS X and OS X Server, in a wide range of practical situations. Presentations are given by industry experts and/or system administrators, in a format which fosters open discussions and group collaboration.

Registration and more details of the event are available on Apple’s Seminar Website.

There’s been a fair amount of discussion recently regarding filename renaming, and while this is indeed one of those things that there are as many ways to do as there are to skin a cat, here’s an example of one way, with a bit of explanation as to how you can customize to suit your own needs.

These are the final slides from James Turner, of CRYPTOCard, and Andrina’s presentation at Macworld 2007.

In the near future we’re going to try and re-do the demos in Quicktime with commentary to go along with these slides.

You can download the slides in PDF format here.

In the move from the Apple Partition Map (APM), to the new GUID partition table (GPT) there’s a lot of questions around why, how and what does it mean to me. We’ve discovered a wonderful Technical Note on Apple’s Developer website answering all of these questions – Technical Note TN2166