“Understand FileVault 2 and Manage Disk Encryption with the Casper Suite”...
JAMF Software has posted the session video for my FileVault 2 session from JAMF Nation User Conference 2013. For those interested, the JNUC session videos are available on YouTube. For convenience....
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Xcode Command Line Tools included with Xcode 5.0.x on Mavericks
Something I’ve always tried to include with Xcode installations are the Xcode command line tools. Starting in Xcode 4.3, Apple stopped bundling these tools by default and instead made them an optional...
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Expanding available disk space on JAMF’s NetSUS VM appliance
Thanks to Allister, I ran across this NetSUS-related feature request at JAMF Nation. While the feature request makes sense in the context of the requester’s shop, it is possible to resize the NetSUS...
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Building a Grand Unified Xcode 5.0.2 installer for Mavericks and Mountain Lion
Apple has released Xcode 5.0.2 through the Mac App Store for all Macs running 10.8.4 and higher. While the command line tools for Mavericks are now included with Xcode, the command line tools for...
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Fixing permissions after changing directory services
In my travels, an issue I’ve occasionally dealt with has been moving Macs between directory services. In some cases, this meant between AD domains. In others, moving a Mac from an AD domain to an...
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Open Directory in Mavericks no longer requires multiple processors
In Mac OS X Server 10.7.x and 10.8.x, there’s been an issue that Mac admins have run into more than once: “I’m trying to set up Open Directory in this VM, but the service won’t enable.” Profile Manager...
View ArticleMigrating Macs from one OpenLDAP domain to another OpenLDAP domain
A while ago, I needed to script a method for binding Macs running 10.6.x and later to our Linux-based OpenLDAP server. Recently, we needed to move our OpenLDAP domain to a different OpenLDAP domain as...
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Interested in a DC-area Mac Admins group?
Inspired by the folks over at macbrained, Tom Bridge and Justin Rummel are starting a DC-area Mac Admins group. If you’re interested in learning more, please sign up here and follow @mac_dmv on Twitter.
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Using DeployStudio as an Active Directory domain migration tool
As part of a domain migration project, I was recently tasked with figuring out a way to handle migrating the Macs from one AD domain to another. I had the following requirements: Unbind the Mac from...
View ArticleUpgrading a FileVault 2 encrypted Mac to 10.9 – Differences between...
I was recently wrong on the internet again, but as always making a mistake gave me a chance to learn from it. What I learned was the method Mac admins choose to use upgrading their Macs to Mavericks...
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