• Bushel,  iPhone,  JAMF,  Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment

    5 Things You Should Know About Apple Mobile Device Management

    Apple Mobile Device Management (MDM for short) is a means of distributing data and settings to iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and OS X. Using MDM, you can push email, security settings, apps, app settings and even content through devices. Bushel uses Apple’s MDM to push these to Apple devices. There are some limitations and misconceptions, so here are 5 things you should know about how Apple Mobile Device Management really works: Discover The 5 Things You Should Know About Apple Mobile Device Management On The Bushel Blog

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

    Enroll Devices Into Bushel

    To manage a device from Bushel, it must first be added to your Bushel. The technical whiz-bang name for that process is Enrollment. We currently provide 3 ways to enroll devices into your Bushel. All three are available on the Enrollment page when you’re logged into Bushel. The first and best way to enroll devices into your Bushel is an Apple program called the Device Enrollment Program, or DEP for short. DEP is a way of tying devices to your Bushel so that they cannot be removed from the device, even if the device is wiped. Other than through DEP,  all enrollment into your Bushel is optional on the devices…

  • Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Network Infrastructure,  Xsan

    Configure sFlows on a Brocade 8470

    sFlow is an industry standard that allows network equipment with the appropriate agents to send data to sFlow collectors, which then analyze network traffic. You can install sFlow on routers, switches, and even put agents on servers to monitor traffic. Brocade (along with most other switch manufacturers) supports sFlow. Before you do anything log into the switch and check the current flow configuration: show sFlow To configure, log into the switch and use the the int command to access an interface. From within the interface, use the following command: sflow forwarding Then exit the interface using the very difficult to remember exit command: exit Repeat the enablement of forwarding for…

  • Consulting,  iPhone,  Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment,  personal,  public speaking,  sites

    https://krypted.com/ Turns 10 Today

    Wow, seems like just yesterday I took down the old static page that was just a bunch of links I used to find stuff and went with a full-on WordPress site and published my first article. Doesn’t seem like I’ve been writing that long. But when I look at the over 2,500 posts on this site and the fact that I hit over 210,000 uniques last month, I guess it must be true. I’m so thankful that people want to read this stuff. And I’m really glad that I’ve been able to help a few people over the years. I hope the next 10 years are even better than the…

  • Articles and Books,  Bushel,  Consulting,  Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment,  personal

    Childproof Your Mac

    When I put a computer in my daughters room, I soon realized I could no longer watch over her shoulder as she worked away at school games, Minecraft and of course Civilization (after all, that was my first game). So much as I wrote an article a long time ago about child-proofing an iPad, now I’m writing about child-proofing a Mac. For me, I find that child-proofing is a bit like taking my kid to McDonald’s. I said never ever ever ever would I do this and then… Well, peer pressure, ya’ll… So if I have to do it, I figure someone else might. So here’s a quick and dirty guide to doing…

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

    Show Volumes On The OS X Desktop

    I spent a lot of time on Windows a long time ago. And one of the things I got used to was having hard drives on the desktop. And I liked it. So when Apple took them off the desktop I started running these commands on new accounts only own systems. The other day when I gave them to someone, they said I should post them. So here goes… To show removable media (cards, etc): defaults write com.apple.finder ShowRemovableMediaOnDesktop -bool true To show external hard drives (USB, Thunderbolt, firewire, etc): defaults write com.apple.finder ShowExternalHardDrivesOnDesktop -bool true To show mounted servers (AFP, SMB, NFS, etc): defaults write com.apple.finder ShowMountedServersOnDesktop -bool true…

  • Business,  Mac Security,  personal

    Be A Good Patriotic American By Renting Sony’s The Interview

    Recently I’ve read a lot of things about the attacks against Sony. I’ve read that they’re nothing more than extortion attempts by hackers that probably live in their parents basements (based on the fact that the initial demands didn’t mention North Korea at all). I’ve read they were orchestrated by China by people who felt North Korea was being picked on and couldn’t stand up for themselves. I’ve read highly unconvincing reports from the FBI that they were orchestrated by North Korea. No one really knows. I can send traffic to servers from anywhere in the world. Anyone can anonymize their web traffic as easily as using a ToR plug-in…

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

    The 12 Days Of Krypted

    Merry Christmas ya’ll! On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me one 32 gig iPad On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me two bash one-liners On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me three Red Hat servers On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me four email blasts On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me five retweets On the sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to me six regular expressions On the seventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me seven lines of perl…

  • Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security

    Happy Holidays

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