NOTE: Again, I was going to give this presentation for MacDMV this month, however, due to unannounced circumstances I won’t be able to present. Here is what I was going to post immediately following the meet-up. [ Read More... ]
NOTE: I was going to give this presentation for MacDMV this month, however, due to unannounced circumstances I won’t be able to present. Here is what I was going to post immediately following the meet-up. [ Read More... ]
JAMF Software’s Casper Suite has the ability to use Configuration Profiles (Apple’s preferred method for managing OSX and iOS) since version 8.0, and introduced Apple Push Notification Service (APNS) support since Casper Suite 8.4. The combination of using Configurations Profiles with APNS allows administrators the ability to push management settings, which will be installed immediately and securely on their client machines. However, Apple has been slow to provide Configuration Profiles a 1:1 feature parity that Mac Administrators were used to be able to configure through MCX via Workgroup Manager (RIP). There is a need to extract legacy MCX Settings and convert them into a working Configuration Profiles to manage options in a meticulous fashion: thus mcxToProfile. [ Read More... ]
In my previous article Resizing a VMware Fusion Ubuntu Server Virtual Drive (via Easy Mode), I described what was needed to enlarge your Virtual Drive (VHD) on a VMware Fusion VM that was setup by the “Easy Install” method. If you are confused by what the “Easy Install” method is, there is a prompt when creating a new VM that asks you to provide information for a new account: [ Read More... ]
Let us pretend that you have an Ubuntu Server which has been running for several years and it has been doing it’s assigned task(s) nicely, until one day you make a change to your methodology/assumptions/workflow/tasks therefore the allocated Virtual Drive (VHD) size is no longer sufficient. There are many reasons for this, but I ran into this issue twice in one weekended because I enabled a JDS as a Distribution Point (thus MySQL was eating needing a lot of space) and wanting to test multiple NetBoot NBI sources (because 10.10.2 seems to be causing imaging troubles). I need to increase the size of two different VHDs, however if you setup your Ubuntu Server via “Easy Install Mode” enlarging the VHD is not that strait forward. [ Read More... ]
