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.
By Mike Boylan, Nick McSpadden Historically, Mac deployment has been done the traditional way, by configuring a perfect "Golden Master" computer configured just the way you want, and then copying that computer to all your other machines.
"The only thing constant is change." "Timing is everything." These two sayings would become so very true to me and Arek Dreyer as we were wrapping up the last edits and corrections to the materials for "Apple Pro Training Series: OS X Server Essentials: Using and Supporting OS X Server on Mountain Lion," published by Peachpit Press.
If you've moved away from an OS X-based infrastructure and towards Linux, you may be familiar with NetSUS, which is a linux-based appliance that can be used to NetBoot Macs. This is a great solution if you are trying to move towards virtualized and/or non-OS X servers.
Hardware filtering has been around for a while with the NetBoot service, but until recently you could get away one or perhaps two NetBoot sets to cover a whole range of models. With Lion and Mountain Lion, the compatibility breakdown became a lot more complicated where some Intel Macs were supported but not others.
On the newest version of Server.app (2.2) there is a new service called Caching. Clearly it is for caching things, but what exactly and how? Get a first look at this new service over at Noel Alonso's blog.
If you need to add permissions to files or folders beyond User, Group or Other, then ACLs are the answer. You can have super fine control over files and folders with ACLs and assign them based upon any number of users and groups.
One of the greatest new enterprise features in OS X Mt. Lion is its support of the DCE/RPC protocol in combination with Active Directory (AD) for use with 802.1x machine or user based certificate authentication.
While Xcode is a single .app that is very easy to deploy, there are several support packages that must be installed when you first launch Xcode. If your end users do not have admin rights or it is for a lab setup, it is ideal to have all these packages installed ahead of time so they are not prompted to do so.
Now that AppleTVs are becoming more prevalent in the enterprise and education, Apple has added Profile support for them. You can now manage certain aspects of the AppleTV using Profiles. One such aspect is wireless configurations, including 802.1x profiles for secure networks.
