Articles by: Nate Walck

iCloud is a great tool for consumer use, but in most enterprises it is not desirable.  OS X defaults to saving documents on iCloud if the application supports it.  If company policy states you cannot save documents to the cloud, then this must be disabled.  Charles Edge has a post on […]

MacIT concluded with a half day on Saturday.  Even though it was only a half day, there were plenty of sessions to attend.  Some standout sessions included an overview of Deployment Methods by Anthony Reimer which dovetailed nicely into the following session by Mike Boylan and Nick McSpadden where they […]

If you have ever had to deploy an OS X/Windows dual boot system, you know how much of a pain it can be to download the Windows drivers and get them installed.  Thankfully, Tim Sutton has created a tool that can help with this task.  It will not only download […]

Day Two was full of even more great sessions.  The day started out with an overview of the changes in iOS 6.  Following this was a general session covering Wireless in 2013 and later.  Bill Wiecking went over the upcoming wireless technologies, what their technical specifications were and the challenges that […]

The first day of MacIT 2013 was packed full of valuable sessions.  From Chip Pearson’s moving talk regarding the future of the Mac Administrator community to the various sessions covering security topics, iOS and BYOD environments. The Mountain Lion Security session by Steve Leebove and Justin Rummel was an overview […]

With the increased rate of Java vulnerabilities as of late, it has been a real chore keeping track of what needs to be done with Java for your organization.  If you use Java-based apps or webapps and you can not just disable all the plugins, you must have some way of […]

MacIT 2013 has kicked off in Moscone West.  The first session opened with some brief items that everyone should know regarding OS X Mountain Lion as well as an overview of conference sessions that cover some specific Mountain Lion topics. One focus of this session was OS X Server in […]

As a reminder, MacIT is hosting an AFP548 Birds of a Feather gathering . On: Thursday, January 31 From: 7:30pm – 8:30pm (following the MacIT Reception in the Sponsor Showcase) At: Room 3004, Moscone West Hall We hope to see you there and wish everyone safe travels. Nate WalckNate is […]

Virtualization is becoming more prevalent in the enterprise (if not the standard for many places).  How does one virtualize OS X and at what cost you may ask? You can do it for free, believe it or not, using ESXi.  ESXi officially supports Mac Pros (the “newest” revision) and unofficially works on […]

A new Flash Player has come out and it is worse than before or perhaps the Adobe CS Suite is nuking itself randomly.  What do these issues both have in common you might ask?  The answer is that you’ve not told Adobe about your issues.  Or maybe you have…once…a long […]