• certifications,  iPhone,  Mac OS X,  Microsoft Exchange Server

    New Microsoft Office for Mac and iOS Accreditation via MacTech

    March 20, 2015

    I recently got the announcement of the new official Microsoft Office Accreditation through MacTech. I was lucky enough to sit in on the previous version of this, so thought I’d push out the information on it. It’s attached to the MacTech Pro Events that MacTech has been running: As you know, Microsoft released a public preview of Office 2016 for Mac. MacTech and Microsoft have created a new accreditation for Apple techs called “Microsoft Office for Mac and iOS Accredited Support Professional, 2015.” Prior to the public Office 2016 announcement, we did a preview of this new course under NDA in Seattle earlier this month. We’re now announcing the new accreditation…

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  • Mac OS X,  Mac Security

    Packet Manipulation with Scapy on OS X

    March 14, 2015

    Scapy is a (mostly) cross-platform packet manipulation tool. This allows you to craft and edit packets that you then send to other hosts when you open a socket. This is incredibly useful for, for example, capturing a packet being sent to you, manipulating the payload, and passing the packet on to another host. This is a pretty common, albeit slightly more advanced, method of security testing. Installing Scapy is a pretty straight forward process, if a tad bit time consuming compared to something coming in from a standard package. Before you get started, make sure you have the OS X Developer Tools installed from the Mac App Store. Also, make…

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  • Bushel,  iPhone,  Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server

    Learning iOS Security Now Available for Pre-Orders

    February 22, 2015

    Boom. 3 books in about 6 months. The next, and likely last for a few months at least, book is finally ready. Written with Allister Banks, Learning iOS Security is a look into iOS Security for those coming to the Apple platform. It’s meant for business, enterprise, infosec.   The first chapter, as I’ve done in a few previous books, was written as a quick and dirty “oh, this is all you’re gonna’ read, cool” type of thing. In security, 90 percent (or more) of the work is done in the first 10 percent of the time. I have this theory (unproven) that each percent represents a j curve in cost…

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

    Automatically let users install printers

    February 20, 2015

    A scripty way to install a printer: sudo /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p MYPRINTERNAME -L "" -E -v lpd://MYPRINTERIPADDRESS -P MYPRINTERPPDFILE So if you create a file called installprinter.terminal and then paste this command in there, it’ll install the printer. You’d need to change the items in all caps for it to run. Another way would be to use Profile Manager. There, you’d setup a basic profile manager server and then use the Printer profile (see screenshot) to install the printer. Then users can just double-click on the profile, install it to their printers and use it. That’s the modern/best/easiest way IMHO.

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

    Take Control Of OS X Server (Yosemite) Now Available

    February 5, 2015

    I’ve been light on posting here, mostly because I’ve been swamped with work, selling my old house, buying a new house, doing some crazy taxes, wrapping production on a new book and updating the Take Control of OS X Server book to Yosemite Server. Well, earlier this week I sold my house, got the next version of Bushel ready to rock and filed my taxes. Aaaaannnnnndddddd, the Yosemite version of Take Control Of OS X Server is now available at http://tid.bl.it/1xuCJUC. Boom. Will get back to my normally scheduled postings shortly!

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  • Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment,  Ubuntu,  Unix,  WordPress

    Install Pow for Rails Testing On OS X

    February 2, 2015

    Pow is a Rack server for OS X. It’s quick and easy to use and lets you skip that whole update an Apache file, then edit /etc/hosts, ethane move a file, then run an app type of process. To get started with Pow, curl it down and pipe it to a shell, then provide the password when prompted to do so: odr:~ charlesedge$ curl get.pow.cx | sh % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 9039 100 9039 0 0 10995 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 10996 *** Installing Pow 0.5.0... *** Installing local configuration files... /Users/charlesedge/Library/LaunchAgents/cx.pow.powd.plist *** Installing system…

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

    Modern Mac Synchronization with ChronoSync

    January 31, 2015

    ChronoSync is one of those tools that’s been in the Mac community for a long time (rightfully so). It’s been a little while since I got the chance to really tinker around with ChronoSync so I thought I’d do a little article on what I got to find during my tinkerations. To get started with ChronoSync, go to their website at http://www.econtechnologies.com/chronosync/overview.html. Next, we’re going to walk through the most basic of setups (and you can get all kinds of complicated from there if you’d like!). Once you’ve downloaded, ChronoSync, run the installer from the disk image that was downloaded. Then walk through the installer, basically following the defaults (unless you’d like to…

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