• Mac OS X Server

    Changing Roundcube Max Attachment Size in Lion Server by Duong Nguyen

    Thanks to Duong Nguyen for the second user-submitted post on Changing Roundcube Max Attachment Size in Lion Server! By default, Lion Server’s webmail (Roundcube) has a 5MB max attachment size. The max attachment size is read from php’s “upload_max_filesize” and “post_max_size”. We don’t need to edit php.ini because Lion Server created a .htaccess in Roundcube’s directory that overrides php.ini’s settings. Please only do this if you are comfortable with the terminal! I start by SSHing to my server as root (or you can open a root terminal). 1. # cd /usr 2. # cd share 3. # cd webmail 4. # vi .htaccess 5. Use your arrow keys to navigate…

  • Active Directory,  Articles and Books,  iPhone,  Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment,  Microsoft Exchange Server

    Holy White Papers, Apple?!?!?

    For those of you who say Apple doesn’t care about the enterprise, Apple has released a number of assets (technical white papers) on integrating Macs (Lion) into enterprise environments at http://training.apple.com/lion. This is also the page that you’ll find links to all of the official training and certification courses for Lion. The assets up on this page are about as close to a publicly accessible book on integrating OS X into the enterprise as you’ll to see for Lion… The first covers the basics of integrating Macs into enterprise environments: The second covers self support: The third is on evaluating Macs in Enterprise environments: The fourth is on deployment: The…

  • Mass Deployment

    Deploying and Managing Google Chrome: The Rough Guide

    The following is a post from the most excellent Nick McSpadden. It is very well written and I am proud that it is the first article published on this site using the new submissions page. Looks like it’s time to change the banner from my Notes from the Underground, er, I mean, Field, to just Notes from the Field! Greetings! This is a sort of follow-up to my guide on managing Firefox, this time focusing on managing Google Chrome. I’m working on current Chrome version 18 (which just today got updated to 19), and I don’t know for sure how far back this will work, but I think anything higher…

  • Mass Deployment

    Deploying and Managing Firefox: The Rough Guide

    Another Great Article Submitted From Nick McSpadden: After working with this for a bit, I’ve come up with a step by step installation process for Firefox 10 ESR + CCK deployment on Mac OS. Firefox CCK Guide – Part I Most of the information about add-ons that you’ll need is in Mike Kaply’s blog: Integrating Add-ons into Firefox 1) Install CCK Wizard in Firefox 10 ESR 2) Run and configure CCK Wizard the way you want 3) Save the CCK data into a “CCK” folder anywhere you’d like.  This folder will contain: cck.config cck.xpi xpi/ directory 4) When done, open up CCK/xpi.config 5) Copy the contents of the id=<name> key…

  • Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment

    Automated Regression Testing Mac OS X Clients Using Sikuli

    Imaging can be a complicated task. Many imaging environments have a lot of scripts, packages, base images and other aspects of automation. The more of these that you have, the more potential combinations you have for the state of a system once they’ve been run. This gets complicated when you want to make sure that each possible combination of images will have a consistent result when installed. For example, take something simple, like a property list. Each possible combination of packages, scripts images and even managed preferences might have a different impact on that poor property list. A simple defaults command can often give administrators the ability to see what…

  • iPhone,  Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  MobileMe

    Removing A Credit Card From An AppleID

    Sometimes you deploy iOS based devices with iTunes. There are a number of factors that can still force you into iTunes based deployments, such as needing the icons to appear a certain way in iOS. It’s not optimal but it happens. And sometimes you need to give an iPad or iPhone to a user leveraging an existing AppleID that will have a password known by multiple users. Again, not the right way, but there are design requirements that cause you to do it from time to time. And if you’re using a shared account, one of the last things you want is for users to actually buy stuff with that…

  • sites

    New User Submission Page

    I have now opened up the site to user submissions and built a page to submit content. I’ve also tweaked the layout a little more to make things load faster and cleaned up the nav bar so that the Submit button can take you to the submission page. I hope to see some pretty awesome submissions after slaving away on the forms! A couple of notes on submissions: Submissions do not require authenticating to the site For any accepted submissions I will create an account for you (unless you already have one) and make sure that submissions are properly attributed Feel free to submit a snippet along with a read…

  • cloud,  Mac OS X

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    Google recently decided that it was time to force some other company to buy cloudy dispositioned upstarts, Dropbox and Box.net. Google also decided that Office365 represented Microsoft being a little too brazen in their attempts to counteract the inroads that Google has made into Microsoft territory. Therefor, Google thumped their chest and gave away 5GB of storage in Google Drive. Google then released a tool that synchronizes data stored on a Google Drive to Macs and Windows systems. Installing Google Drive is pretty easy. Just browse to Google Docs and Google will tell you that there’s this weird new Google Drive thing you should check out. Here, click on Download…