I am busy and so I’ve got nothing better for ya’ today than this (which is awesome so you don’t need anything better):
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2012 Penn State MacAdmins Conference
Don’t let the theft of the Paternoville sign fool ya’, State College is as safe as ever. That is, until a bunch of Mac guys descend on the Nittany Lion Shrine. Yes, it’s that time of the year again when Mac guys from around the world (and yes, all of the speakers are male) descend upon Pennsylvania State University from throughout the Big 10 and beyond to discuss the Penn State mascot, the Nittany Lion. Actually, it’s a mountain lion, so we can’t discuss it quite yet at that point, but we can talk about a slightly bigger cat: Lion. Lion deployment, scripted tools, Munki, InstaDMG, Puppet, migrations, “postPC,” PSU…
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Fixing Service Issues When Upgrading to 10.7.3 Server
The 10.7.2 to 10.7.3 update for Lion Server has introduced a few issues in some environments that I’ve seen. It just so happens that the update corrects a lot of behavior with Lion Server while also introducing new features, so it’s something you’re gonna’ need to do eventually. Therefore, before I update, I would strongly recommend backing up all of your services, your service data and Open Directory. Once you’ve run the 10.7.3 update, there are a few things that I’ve seen happen. The first is that the web server won’t start. If this happens, reset the web server back to factory default: serveradmin command web:command=restoreFactorySettings Once it’s reset, you…
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Nuke+Pave iCal Server in Lion Server
It is possible to remove all of the content from a Lion Calendar server using Postgres. To aid you in doing so, Apple has built out a couple of commands to make the process easier. This will nuke everything from the server and so is not something that should be lightly done. To do so, first stop the Calendar service in the Server application. Then let’s back up the database: pg_dump -U _postgres caldav -c -f /db_backups/caldav.sql Then run dropdb to remove the database itself: dropdb -U _postgres caldav Once the database is gone, run the calendar_bootstrap_database script (I prefer doing so verbosely): calendarserver_bootstrap_database -v Now you should be able…
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Setting Up Open Directory Replicas With Lion Server
In Lion Server, Open Directory can be managed in one of three ways: using the Server application the Server Admin application or using the command line utilities. Configuring Open Directory has never been easier than it is in the Server application, though. As we looked at in a previous article, setting up an Open Directory master should be done using the Server application. But setting up an Open Directory replica should be done using the Server Admin application. The Server Admin application is not installed when you buy OS X Server on the App Store and so it can be obtained here. But first (or while that’s downloading even), open…