Tech Recess

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

Here is a re-post of a fix from my old WordPress site: Well, it is that summer-time for myself and other educators and with that, typically that means it is time to take care of all the Directory Service maintenance items that have been put off.  One such problem I ran into was new user [...]

A few weeks ago there was a meeting of Chicagoland area school district technology members with a focus on iPads. This included sharing curricular use stories, utilizing iPads along with Google Docs for electronic board packets, tech tips, educational app review communities, and a few vendors sharing their tools for device management and successful deployment. [...]

It is inevitable that someone in your organization is going to have a name change.  While this is easy for them, it can plague system administrators who now need to change a login across all systems.  Ideally, a central directory service exists to make user management easier.  In this example, we are going to look [...]

After stumbling across this one today, it seemed a good one to share with my audience (There is one, right?).  When managing Sync settings for Portable Home Directories on 10.6 server, plenty of options exist in regards to sync frequency.  With choices like login, logout, background, and manually, it is easy to check the boxes [...]

This year we decided to roll both our student and staff domains together in GoogleApps with the aim of making sharing and collaboration between our staff and students easier. Since Google now allows services to be enabled / disabled at the subdomain level as opposed to the domain level, it didn’t make a whole lot [...]