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PSU MacAdmins Conference 2013
For the third year, I’ll be presenting at PSU MacAdmins Conference! This year I’m lucky enough to be able to present two talks, “Backup, Front to Back” and “Enough Networking to be Dangerous”. But I’m...
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LOPSA-East 2013
For the first year I’ll be speaking at the newly-rebranded League of Extraordinary Gentlemen League of Professional System Administrators conference in New Brunswick, New Jersey! It’s May 3rd and 4th,...
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Quick Update to a Radiotope Guide for Built-In Mac OS X VPN Connections
Just a note for those folks with well-worn bookmarks to this post on Ed Marczak’s blog, Radiotope.com, for authenticating VPN connections with Mac OS X Server’s Open Directory, which is still valid...
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Casper Focus Now Available
For a long time I’ve been saying that the #1 challenge with regard to using iOS is content distribution. Others have mirrored that by saying that the device is a content aggregator, etc. The challenge...
View ArticleInconsistent Upgrade Behavior on Software-Mirrored RAID Volumes
It came up again recently, so this post is to warn folks treading the same path in the near future. First a little ‘brass tacks’ background: As you probably know, as of 10.7 Lion’s Mac App Store-only...
View ArticleAdd OS X Network Settings Remotely (Without Breaking Stuff)
So you’re going to send a computer off to a colocation facility, and it’ll use a static IP and DNS when it gets there, the info for which it’ll need before it arrives. Just like colo, you access this...
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Wishes Granted! Apple Configurator 1.4 and iOS 7
Back in June, we posted about common irritations of iOS(6) device deployment, especially in schools or other environments trying to remove features that could distract students. Just like with the...
View ArticleThe Cost Considerations of Managed Services
With the economic, social, and technology trends pushing IT outsourcing concepts into the spotlight for businesses, it has become increasingly important for CFOs to take a serious look at managed...
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The DeployStudio Treadmill
Projects like autopkg are all about leaving the repetitive work to computers, and letting us take action or make decisions only when it’s absolutely necessary. One of the more persistent recurring and...
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Introducing JSSImporter for Autopkg
Autopkg is a project born out of the need to automate one of the more tedious tasks that face Mac Admins: figuring out when a piece of software has been updated, downloading it, and doing whatever it...
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