One of the new features that was introduced in OS X Lion is automatic application termination. This feature stops any applications that haven’t been used for awhile and then when you start the app back up, it fires up using the saved application state. But some processes shouldn’t be stopped. I’ve recently run into 2 cases where I needed to disable automatic termination. To do so is pretty straight forward: defaults write -g NSDisableAutomaticTermination -bool TRUE Once run, read the key back from the global defaults domain to verify it was run correctly: defaults read -g NSDisableAutomaticTermination The output should just be a 1. Provided it’s correct, now test that…
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Holy White Papers, Apple?!?!?
For those of you who say Apple doesn’t care about the enterprise, Apple has released a number of assets (technical white papers) on integrating Macs (Lion) into enterprise environments at http://training.apple.com/lion. This is also the page that you’ll find links to all of the official training and certification courses for Lion. The assets up on this page are about as close to a publicly accessible book on integrating OS X into the enterprise as you’ll to see for Lion… The first covers the basics of integrating Macs into enterprise environments: The second covers self support: The third is on evaluating Macs in Enterprise environments: The fourth is on deployment: The…
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Setting Up Time Machine Server in Lion Server
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Deploying and Managing Google Chrome: The Rough Guide
The following is a post from the most excellent Nick McSpadden. It is very well written and I am proud that it is the first article published on this site using the new submissions page. Looks like it’s time to change the banner from my Notes from the Underground, er, I mean, Field, to just Notes from the Field! Greetings! This is a sort of follow-up to my guide on managing Firefox, this time focusing on managing Google Chrome. I’m working on current Chrome version 18 (which just today got updated to 19), and I don’t know for sure how far back this will work, but I think anything higher…
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Deploying and Managing Firefox: The Rough Guide
Another Great Article Submitted From Nick McSpadden: After working with this for a bit, I’ve come up with a step by step installation process for Firefox 10 ESR + CCK deployment on Mac OS. Firefox CCK Guide – Part I Most of the information about add-ons that you’ll need is in Mike Kaply’s blog: Integrating Add-ons into Firefox 1) Install CCK Wizard in Firefox 10 ESR 2) Run and configure CCK Wizard the way you want 3) Save the CCK data into a “CCK” folder anywhere you’d like. This folder will contain: cck.config cck.xpi xpi/ directory 4) When done, open up CCK/xpi.config 5) Copy the contents of the id=<name> key…
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Automated Regression Testing Mac OS X Clients Using Sikuli
Imaging can be a complicated task. Many imaging environments have a lot of scripts, packages, base images and other aspects of automation. The more of these that you have, the more potential combinations you have for the state of a system once they’ve been run. This gets complicated when you want to make sure that each possible combination of images will have a consistent result when installed. For example, take something simple, like a property list. Each possible combination of packages, scripts images and even managed preferences might have a different impact on that poor property list. A simple defaults command can often give administrators the ability to see what…
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Video On Setting Up Software Update Services In Lion Server
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Video On Setting Up Users and Groups In Lion Server
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Video on Setting Up Profile Manager in Lion Server
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Lights Out Managing Mac Mini Servers with Vera
There is no Lights Out Management for a Mac mini Server (btw, am I the only one that noticed that these are now called Mac mini with Lion Server, where mini isn’t capitalized). While the Mac mini Server doesn’t have the Lights Out Management (LOM)/IPMI chips in it, there are a few things that we can control anyway. Convention would say that we’d get a NetBotz card for that spiffy APC we’ve got, which can do minor automation and even a little environmental monitoring. And there are a few other systems out there that can do similar tasks. But I’m a home automation nerd these days. So I decided to…