Corsair has updated their series of "Securing Mac OS X" white papers to include "Securing Mac OS X Leopard (10.5)". This is an update of the Tiger version to include "the new security features offered by Mac OS X Leopard."You can find this, previous versions, and others on their Technical White Papers page.
You might have read some of our previous articles talking about using kicker to perform actions on network status changes.This was always an unsupported solution, and with Leopard it turns out that Apple no longer…
NausicaMedia, the first french company certified on Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server, has translated the "Tips and Tricks for Macintosh Management" of John de Troye in french.Although this is the Tiger Version, the Leopard's one is not released yet, everyone know how much this documentation can be important as a practice for a sysadmin.
Today marks the release of 10.5.3 Client and Server. There have been a few nasty bugs in Leopard Server that have given us a headache or two. The primary being being the Directory Services issue with AFP connections. The other one I wrote about awhile ago was in Server Admin and creating DNS records.
There were some bugs in the first version of the "Mac OS X Server Open Directory Administration For Version 10.5 Leopard" Check out the new version.
LANrev announced today that their InstallEase automated packaging tool is now free.InstallEase is a tool for creating installer packages and has functionalities like automated "Before" and "After" snapshots…
When the Apple Store came back up after this morning's Tuesday outage, I thought the new $49 price tag on the shuffle summed up the changes.But I was wrong. Xsan2 has been released. See apple.com/xsanAnd we have a big change up at apple.com/server/storageWe don't have new Xserve RAIDs, not exactly.
PKGImage is a modular system deployment tool for leopard (10.5).Now released here: http://www.apple-scripts.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=16Read on for more info...
If you're on the Mac-Managers mailing list, best to read this. The Macintosh Managers mailing list has been operating since 1991, and like any system with over 6000 days of uptime a little cruft has accumulated ... it could use a reboot.
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