Xsan Admin 1.2 has been released, and is available for download here. There are some very important instructions to follow on this upgrade - like, don't upgrade from version 1.0 to version 1.2 directly. The full instructions for the update are available on Apple's knowledge base.
Apple released Mac OS X Server 10.4.3 a couple days ago. The full details about the improvements are detailed in Apple KB#302089, but there's a few really nice bells and whistles in this update that might just make it the reason to upgrade your 10.3 servers.
One of the great gems of Apple Remote Desktop 2, and while it's not hidden in the documentation, no one seems to have sung its virtues - until now. Read on for more...
It was a dark and stormy afternoon when Ian (maccanada) and I sat down to fight the beast that is LDAP migration from an up and running 10.3 Server to a brand new, out of the box, 10.4 server. Lucky for you, the battle was won by us, and the gory details of the fight will lay themselves out for you as you read on...
This article, the first of an intro to HPC, could also be called, "Centralized Scripting for Workstation Management", so don't let the scary HPC title put you off!
That info tab with all it's empty fields has been taunting me with all it's wonderful uses, but sitting down and filling in 500+ users with all their individual data is not something even I'd wish on my worst enemy!
We're all having fun with Dashboard widgets, right? If nothing else it's a useful way to try and convince ourselves that we all need 30" displays just for all the new informational widgets we have now...
Getting all the Xsan pieces straight in your head When Xsan came out, it was the first time that the average Apple System Administrator had seen a Storage Area Network (SAN), and as a result, there's a lot of questions about how to best deal the very fundamentals of an Xsan setup.
Stupid-simple high availablity server solutions using the built-in failover scripts in 10.3. OS X Server has had a variant of this system since 10.2, however few people have used it, or even realize it exists. Here's a walkthrough of how to provide an active/passive solution for web and MySQL services.
Keep your monitors happy and ghost free We have a number of machines here with colour calibrated monitors, and to keep this colour as constant as we can it means that power to the monitor can never be turned off.
