Edweek.org did a webinar featuring Absolute Manage yesterday and the archive is available online. You can either watch the webinar (bit less than 1 hour) or just download the slides. It featured a case study from a school district with a few thousand managed machines and has a heavy focus Read more »
Absolute Manage (LANrev) webinar archive available
by Patrick March 31, 2010 » Add the first comment.
Changed RSS feed to show full posts
by Patrick January 18, 2010 » Add the second comment.
Lately, I’ve been reading more and more of my daily news from my iPhone and I’ve started to get pissed off at blogs that I like that only show a short summary in the RSS feed. This drove me nuts. Then today I just realized that I was doing the Read more »
Ten blogs every Mac admin should know about
by Patrick January 16, 2010 » Add more comments.
Need to load up your RSS reader with loads of Mac goodness? Mac Admin Corner just not quite enough for you? There are plenty of Mac experts out there sharing their knowledge with the world. Here’s a list of sites that I follow.
Migrate Local User to Domain Account
by Patrick January 14, 2010 » Add more comments.
If you are migrating your machines to authenticate via Active Directory, you may need to convert your local user accounts and their home folders to an AD user account and retain the home folder. I had a script posted here but that version was Tiger only because it used NI* Read more »
Add user to admin group with Applescript
by Patrick January 12, 2010 » Add the second comment.
Need a way for your team to easily make a network or local user an admin? Copy and paste the code below into Script Editor (Applescript Editor in 10.6) and save it as an application. This can be used before deploying a machine to the user, or after they’ve logged Read more »
Been a while….
by Patrick January 7, 2010 » Add the second comment.
Wow, it’s been almost a year since I’ve posted. I knew I’ve been slacking, but didn’t realize it was that much. I’m going to start posting again soon. Stay tuned.
Leopard Active Directory Integration Headaches
by Patrick January 27, 2009 » Add more comments.
Ever since Leopard came out, we have been having a heck of a time trying to get Leopard to bind and/or authenticate to Active Directory reliably. We use Active Directory sites and our Leopard macs were trying to authenticate to Domain Controllers in the wrong site. I’m reminded of Read more »
Disabling Automatic Updates for Office 2008, Apple Software Updates and Adobe CS4
by Patrick January 26, 2009 » Add the first comment.
Over at the Make Mac Work blog, Ellis has a very informative article about how to disable automatic update notifications for Apple Software Update, Microsoft Office 2008 and Adobe CS4.
