I have been designing and perfecting a new piece of free deployment software for Mac OS X. The program is called StarDeploy, it is easy to setup and use. All one needs is a network share and the client installed on a Mac.
Folks,Ok, so I've been quiet for a while, but here's a version of Policy Banner for Snow Leopard. <http://ps-enable.com/software/PolicyBannerPreLoginApp.dmg/view>Open source, MIT-licensed, go have fun with it. :-)--Paul
A new release of libsrvrmgrd-osx is out which now includes Nagios plugins to monitor and restart (in the event of failure) the following services:AFP DHCP Directory Services DNS FTP Jabber Mail MySQL NAT Netboot NFS…
I usually get quite a lot of unsolicited feedback about Adobe's installers at MacWorld or WWDC (and even better, unguarded, feedback at the Thirsty Bear around closing time) but this year without an IT Track at WWDC (grrrr) I stayed home.
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.
Apple has made documentation available for 10.6, which is available here..http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/resources/documentation.html At first glance, it appears to be a vast improvement from the documentation of…
Aqua Connect is giving away a 20-user license of their server and 20 thin client workstations to an educational institution in order to promote more green computing.
NausicaMedia, the french ACSA company, has translated the latest "Tips and Tricks for Macintosh Management for Leopard" in french.For all the french speaking sysadmins around the world, you will be able to read the John de Troye's guide for managing your users accounts in your own language.
Since we haven't seen much about this elsewhere... Novell have now released Open Enterprise Server 2 SP1 which includes new Novell-engineered protocol support for Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) on the Linux platform.See…
After 6 years of development, Mike Bombich is retiring NetRestore, one of the most used and useful tools for OS X mass deployment. Mike cites an aging code base and other tools in the market as reasons for his descision.
