Over at Tech Recess, Randy Saeks has a rundown of some new iOS 6 features that are useful in a managed environment. The feature that will reduce support time the most is the ability to update installed apps without entering an AppleID and password.
Over time version control has become more popular within the sysadmin realm, with one of the most popular version control systems being git. Graham goes over some of the reasons that it is a good idea to use Git in your everyday work over on his blog.
Just when we thought that the installer for Adobe Flash Player could not get worse, version 11.4 is released and revises our expectations yet again. As has been discussed on the Mac Enterprise Mailing list and as researched by Greg Neagle on his blog, 11.4 has some new quirks.
With the release of OS X 10.8 Server came an updated version of Profile Manager. If you did not dive into Profile Manager on 10.7 Server, then now is the time to get going with some form of MDM. Having a MDM solution will be necessary going forward.
With the release of Mountain Lion I needed a way of creating an updated Recovery HD partition when imaging our machines. In the past I used a combination of solutions by Clay Caviness and Joel Bruner.
Charles Edge has been doing a series of post on OS X Mountain Lion Server and one of today's topics was of interest for those of us that do image deployments. The NetBoot service has been around for quite a while and hadn't changed a whole lot in appearance.
Now that OS X and OS X Server both use the same base OS, many people have been asking what the upgrade path looks like to go from 10.6.x or 10.7.x to 10.8.x Server. Charles Edge has a guide on exactly how to do so. His guide very thorough and I would highly suggest following it if you plan on upgrading to 10.8 Server.
Greg Neagle has a great post outlining the benefits of installing OS X instead of applying an image. This method is great because you can use one installer in various scenarios and prevents you from doing the same work over and over again.
FileVault 2 was a great advancement for encryption on Mac OS X. It allowed for full disk encryption without the use of a third party product, as well as management using the system keychain or via a tool such as cauliflower vest.
The release of Mac OS X Lion dramatically changed how Apple distributed its desktop operating system.
