• Apple Watch,  Bushel

    18 Days and 18 Features of the Apple Watch

    I’ve had my Watch for eighteen days now. Everyday I learn something new, and everyday the Watch becomes more apart of my everyday life. It keeps me on time for my meetings, has me connect to my friends on a more personal level, and it made me realize I need to cut out the large amount of caffeine I rely on. We put together a list of 18 features we have found to be useful that maybe you haven’t seen before! To Read The Rest Of The 18 Days and 18 Features of the Watch Article, Click Here

  • Windows Server

    Adding Roles In Windows Server 2012

    Out of the box a Windows Server 2012 isn’t really that helpful. But luckily, it has these things called Roles. Roles are things like Hyper-V, File Sharing, Windows Update Services, Web Server, etc. Each role then has a collection of services that it can run as well, within the Role. Roles include (borrowing from Microsoft here): Active Directory Certificate Services Overview This content provides an overview of Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) in Windows Server 2012. AD CS is the server role that allows you to build a public key infrastructure (PKI) and provide public key cryptography, digital certificates, and digital signature capabilities for your organization. Active Directory Domain Services Overview By…

  • Mac OS X Server

    Changes in Mountain Lion Server

    Mountain Lion Server is now available on the OS X App Store and as with the last few updates there are some things missing that you might be expecting and depending on. First up, three major services are gone: Podcast Producer, RADIUS and dhcp. You can still do dhcp as you always did with OS X client as those features work on OS X Server, but the more granular controls available in OS X Server are now gone. The biggest impact of dhcp is probably in testing NetBoot services when there are network issues and you need to prove to network admins that it’s the network and not your server……

  • Mac OS X

    Notification Center, Mountain Lion and Me

    I love Notification Center on my phone. I think it’s great to receive a simple list of items that have changed since the last time I looked at the phone.  I can also quickly dismiss the screen so the fact that there’s often 20 or more items in the list when I’ve been sitting at my computer for 10 minutes and not looking at the phone doesn’t really bum me out much. In Mountain Lion, Notification Center comes to the Mac. What I’ve grown to love on the iPhone, I’m not sold on for OS X. You see, the alerts that pop up on the screen are great for a…

  • Mass Deployment

    KACE 3.3 & the Mac

    Version 3.3 of the KACE 2000 appliance introduces a few enhancements for the Mac OS X operating system. These include the following: International Keyboards are now supported in the KACE NetBoot environment Hardware inventory is now supported Pre-installation tasks now support error handling Post-installation tasks now have ByHost support Overall, a nice update if you’re invested in the KACE appliances, although the Windows enhancements are far more substantial (understandably), with updates to user profile migration (now hive based), driver harvesting and other features, primarily for the Windows 7 clients in your environments.