Tech Recess

While I won’t have a cool give-away if you find me at MacWorld, I will be around the conference if you are interested in seeking me out and having a conversation about a specific topic. I will be presenting three sessions at the MacIT Conference of MacWorld | iWorld this year.  If you are interested [...]

One of the useful features for administrators is to utilize a feature called user masquerading.  This allows for an administrator to imitate a specific user over AFP.  While this does not work for Kerberos for at the LoginWindow, it provides a useful method to test file permissions to home directories and verify group membership if [...]

You can view slides from the MacTech Conference 2011 held in Universal City, California. Selected slides, as well as my presentation with Justin Rummel, can be obtained from the link below. MacTech Conference 2011 Slides

Here is a video on syncing OD Groups with Google Apps!

This past summer I deployed munki for our organization.  This is the 3 minute video I put together on what it means for our users, and how they can leverage the system.  If you are interested on how it works from a user perspective, this is the video to watch! You can click on “vimeo” [...]

One great thing with OS X is the ability to setup ACLs and SACLs.  These pertain to Access Control Lists controlling file permissions, Service Access Control Lists, controlling access to services, such as AFP, SSH, LoginWindow, and then there are DACLs.  DACLs serve as Directory Access Control Lists and these control access to attributes within [...]

In my last post focusing on Munki, DeployStudio and SUS services, I had a great question from Mike Boylan on how the advanced tab of MCX knows where to apply ManagedClient settings that are from a custom defined plist. Quickly, I realized this was going to be more than 140 characters to explain, so to [...]

This video will look at how leveraging Open Directory along with client management allows for a seamless and easy to deploy computer imaging workflow. This uses Deploy Studio to lay down an image, Munki for application management, Apple Software Update Services for Apple updates and workgroup manager for management.

What better IT Valentine’s Day gift than how to bring two systems closer together!  Here are the slides from my MacWorld presentation on Integrating Google Apps with Apple OpenDirectory. Download presentation

If you had the chance to attend my “New to OS X Server” session at MacWorld, THANK YOU!  If you didn’t and are interested in the slides from the session, you can grab them here. Enjoy! New to OS X Server Slides