• cloud,  personal,  Product Management

    When Product Management Meets Social Justice

    In technology, we often find a lot of cool stuff that, as developers, engineers and yes, even product managers, we think is just plain cool. In agile development, we create epics, where we lay out customer stories and tie them into a set of features; however, while we’re working towards our goals we often find those technical places where we discover we can do something super cool. And we sometimes want to weave those into our stories as features in products simply because we want to make stuff that we’re technically proud of. But should we? Too often we don’t consider what the social ramifications are to features. Time and…

  • Bushel

    How Small Offices Can Use Bushel

    Many a small office doesn’t consider centrally managing devices at first. Maybe you started off with just a couple people, each with a device. As you grew, maybe you wrote down the steps you took to setup computers, iPads and iPhones. Maybe you just give people devices and let them spend their first few days getting their mobile devices and computers setup to their liking. Learn More About How Small Offices Use Bushel On The Bushel Blog…

  • Mac OS X

    Licensing The Xcode Command Line Tools

    Tools that leverage the Xcode Command Line Tools might have a problem if you install the tools without agreeing to the license. Here, you can see IntelliJ complaining about just that: To agree to the license agreement, you can use xcrun along with the cc verb: sudo xcrun cc This is an interactive command line environment so in order to script it you’d need to use expect to feed in the correct parameters.

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

    Mac Network Commands Cheat Sheet

    After writing up the presentation for MacSysAdmin in Sweden, I decided to go ahead and throw these into a quick cheat sheet for anyone who’d like to have them all in one place. Good luck out there, and stay salty. Get an ip address for en0: ipconfig getifaddr en0 Same thing, but setting and echoing a variable: ip=`ipconfig getifaddr en0` ; echo $ip View the subnet mask of en0: ipconfig getoption en0 subnet_mask View the dns server for en0: ipconfig getoption en0 domain_name_server Get information about how en0 got its dhcp on: ipconfig getpacket en1 View some network info: ifconfig en0 Set en0 to have an ip address of 10.10.10.10…

  • Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment,  Network Infrastructure,  sites,  Ubuntu,  Unix

    Manage Apex Domains In OS X

    OS X Server supports running a traditional bind implementation of DNS. You can define a record for most any name, including google.com, www.google.com, www.www.google.com, etc. You can use this to redirect subdomains. In this example, we’ll create an A Record to point www.google.com to 127.0.0.1 without breaking other google.com subdomains. To get started, let’s use the DNS service in the Server app to create test.www.google.com. The reason for this is that OS X will then create a zone file for www.google.com. If we created www.google.com instead, then OS X would automatically create google.com, which would break the other subdomains. To do so, open Server app and click on the DNS Service. Then…

  • Bushel

    Integrate Bushel With MonkeyBox

    You can now export your devices to Monkey Box! To do so, bring up your devices page. At the bottom of the Devices page, you’ll see a link to Export to Monkey Box. Click and you’ll download a csv file. Learn To Export Bushel Devices to Monkey Box On The Bushel Blog…

  • Bushel

    Use Bushel In Field Services

    Your Bushel can serve a wide range of industries and sizes of organizations, including field services. If you have 10, 50 or 1,000 devices that need managing, Bushel can be tailored to fit the needs of many. A common setup for a field services operation includes the following attributes: Learn More About How Bushel Is Used In Field Service and Engineering…

  • Uncategorized

    See What Bushel Can Do To Devices

    You can see exactly what Bushel does to your OS X devices using the System Information utility. As with all Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions that interface with OS X, you can use the About this Mac menu item under the Apple menu at the top of the screen to bring up the System Information utility. When you open this tool, you will see a lot of information that can be derived about your devices. Scroll down the list and click on Profiles. Here, you will see all of the Device and User profiles that have been installed on your computer, the payloads within each profile and the keys within each payload.…

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

    Install Xcode Command Line Tools On A Fresh Mac Image

    I didn’t figure this out myself but can’t remember the source to attribute. Anyway, I image a lot of systems in my home lab for testing. Many tools I use (e.g. ant, metasploit, etc) need the Xcode Command Line Tools. The easy way to install these is to run xcode-select sung the –install option, as follows: /usr/bin/xcode-select --install