• Apple Configurator,  iPhone

    Set Device Wallpaper Using Apple Configurator 2 On Supervised Devices

    You can set a wallpaper on both the home screen and lock screen of a supervised iOS device. As mentioned, the device will need to be supervised. Supervision can be implemented via Apple’s Device Enrollment Program (DEP for short), but DEP will require MDM to implement supervision, and with a device enrolled and supervised via MDM, you’ll need to use the MDM to set the wallpaper. You can also use Apple Configurator 2. To use Apple Configurator 2 to set a wallpaper on a supervised iPhone or iPad, first save the image or images lo call on an iOS device. Once saved to the Apple Configurator machine, open Apple Configurator 2…

  • Windows Server

    Resize Hyper-V .vhdx To Minimum Size

    A really neat new feature in 2012R2 is that Hyper-V can resize a running virtual machine (.vhdx) to the smallest possible size, while the virtual machine is running. To do so, use Get-VM in PowerShell. Here, we’ll use the -Path option to define the location of our vhdx, the -ToMinimumSize option to indicate that we’d like to shrink it down as low as we can go and -AsJob so it runs in the background: Resize-VHD –Path D:\myVM.vhdx –ToMinimumSize -AsJob

  • Mac OS X Server

    More Collaboration (Teams) Customizations

    The article I did a few weeks ago on customizing the Mac OS X Server Wiki banner seems to have been a little incomplete. I discussed customizing the banner for a full web browser. However, the banner looks differently when viewed from an iPhone. I’ve had a couple of questions about how to customize the banner for iPhone so I figured I’d finish what I started. As I mentioned in the last article, you can simply customize (or replace) the banner-bg.png file located in the /usr/share/collaboration/css/serverhome_static/img directory. This will alter the appearance when viewed from a full web browser. You can also simply edit the following files (same directory) to…

  • Mac OS X

    Backgrounds and Screen Savers

    In Mac OS X you can set your screen saver as your background image. To do so, run the following command: /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background Once you close Terminal or hit Control-C then you will set the background back to what your initial background was. Hope you enjoy!

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

    Changing the Background for DeployStudio

    DeployStudio has a very nice background image that it uses by default for the NetBoot set. But you can customize the image that’s used if you wish to have something more, well, customized. Simply mount the DeployStudioRuntime sparseimage file from the DeployStudioRuntime nbi file that was created when you elected to generate the NetBoot set. You can do so by simply opening the nib file and then double-clicking on the sparse image. From here, browse into the System and then the Library and then the CoreServices directory in the NetBoot set. From here find the DefaultDesktop.jpg file. Replacing that file will replace the background that is used when you boot…