App Store Volume Purchasing Program (VPP) for Business On the Way
Apple has announced that the Volume Purchase Program (VPP for short) is coming to business. The VPP allows organizations to purchase applications in bulk.
Author: cedge
GroupLogic Brings CommVault Simpana to Mac OS X
GroupLogic is working to bridge the gap between corporate mass archival solutions and Mac OS X. With a new product called ArchiveConnect, the makers of Extreme Z-IP now have a product that provides the ability to fully integrate CommVault's Simpana.
Moving the Journal
In Mac OS X 10.2.2 journaling was added to the Mac OS X Extended file system (I first read about it here on afp548). Journaling introduced a lot of great stuff, most notably improved resiliency to crashing.
mcxrefresh
Snow Leopard comes with a great little new command in mcxrefresh, which as you might have guessed refreshes policy information. This allows you to request a new set of policies and provided the command returns with no errors the process has completed successfully (exit's 0).
New networksetup Features in Snow Leopard
The networksetup command is pretty useful for deploying static network information, which is otherwise tedious (to say the least). In Mac OS X 10.6 there are three major additions to networksetup that have not gotten a lot of attention yet.
Source Based Routing Quietly Finds Its Way Into Snow Leopard
On Mac OS X 10.5, if you connect two different ports on a host to two different networks and assign them with two different IP schemes then only one can act as the default gateway. This means that any incoming packets will all, by default, get responded to over the default gateway; despite which interface the packets came in on.
Malware Safeguards in Snow Leopard
A number of you may have noticed the article on ZDNet that stated that Mac OS X now has built in Malware protection (actually, I guess Intego made it public). Despite the fact that the articles from Intego and then ZDNet were written prior to the release of the actual operating system (in their defense it was only 3 days prior) they have a point.
Directory Services Plug-ins
In a number of contexts, we hear about directory services plug-ins. A directory services plug-in is a way for a Mac OS X computer to leverage the DirectoryServices daemon to obtain account information (be it authentication or policy information) from a server.
SANS Security Checklist
There is now a security checklist covering 10.4 and with limited coverage of 10.4 Server available from the SANS S.C.O.R.E. team. You can get the guide here.