UPDATE: DeployStudio have now released version 1.6.13 which addresses the kernel cache issue that was present in 1.6.12. UPDATE 2: OS X is no longer forked as of 10.10.3 DeployStudio hasn’t been updated for a while: version 1.6.12 came out 21 October 2014. Since then we’ve had new Mac minis...
If you utilise Munki for package deployment (and you should), you have no doubt at least looked at some of the useful web-based tools for administering and reporting on your clients. MunkiReport-PHP is a well-designed client reporting tool, which includes many excellent features. MunkiWebAdmin allows you to do a lot...
A captive portal is a network that forces an HTTP client to see a special web page (usually for authentication purposes) before using the Internet normally. A captive portal turns a Web browser into an authentication device. These are commonly used on wifi networks where authentication to the private network...
Reports from my organisation’s Network Team, after consultation with Cisco, are that in some situations Yosemite 802.1x authentications can take up to 20 seconds (due to buggy behaviour in the OS) - this causes a problem when roaming between two access points of similar strength which leads to your connection...
When joining a Mac to Active Directory, you can specify domain users or groups to which you wish to grant administrator rights to the computer. This is done in Directory Utility by ticking the “Allow administration by:” box and entering a domain\username pair: Alternatively, a simple command performs the same...
