Auto-checking your webmail config
SquirrelMail's configuration script (/etc/squirrelmail/config/conf.pl) gives a handy piece of advice upon exiting.
Tips
Mailman Admin Password Reset After Cyrus reconstruct -i
For those of you out there that use the mailman feature of OS X Server this is important. I have had to rebuild the Cyrus DB on more then one occasion. I don't often go into the mailman site to fix anything since it is the way I want it for now.
Custom Weblog Tiger Server
I did some tweaking of our default OSX server weblog. The files were buried but I found them, if you would like to do this they can be found in: Example: http://www.macprofessionals.com/weblog/…
Speed up SMB connections for Windows users
Help your Windows users love your Xserve as much as your Mac users do!
Resetting PCI RAID
If you are having trouble with 'megaraid -destroyconfig' run 'megaraid -showdevices' first to see drive status - stop rebuild processes with 'megaraid -rebuild pd -stop' (This only applies to situations where the RAID has failed so badly that rebuilding (which can take 8 or mor hours) is not an option.
Preventing Login Window burn-in
Keep your monitors happy and ghost free We have a number of machines here with colour calibrated monitors, and to keep this colour as constant as we can it means that power to the monitor can never be turned off.
A better fix for the QuickTime Installer Dialog
Ed. Note: This is a rather clever way of defeating the dreaded QuickTime registration dialog. However it does require access to the package before deployment. It also is a good example of some of the things that pre and post-install scripts do within packages.
Logout Script
We have a client that uses a few apple computers as kiosks. When a person logs onto the machine they want them to let it be active for 30 minutes then to have it logout. They also wanted the machine to warn them when they had 5 minutes left.
LoginHook to fix Mobile User group membership bug.
Having issues with group memberships on mobile accounts? Read on for one method of solving this.
Boot problems might be permissions problems
An Apple may not be the only logo you may see when you boot. For those times when Disk Warrior doesn't fix it...