• iPhone,  Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server

    Using Profile Manager 3 In Mavericks Server

    Profile Manager first appeared in OS X Lion Server as the Apple-provided tool for managing Apple devices, including Mobile Device Management (MDM) for iOS based devices as well as Profile management for OS X based computers, including MacBooks, MacBook Airs, Mac Minis, Mac Pros and iMacs running Mac OS X 10.7 and up. In OS X Mountain Lion, Apple added a number of new features to Profile Manager and revved the software to Profile Manager 2.0, most notably adding the ability to push certain types of apps to mobile devices. In Mavericks Server (Server 3), Apple provides new options and streamlines a bunch of things, most notably App Store and…

  • Xsan

    Disable Spotlight for Xsan Volumes

    I’ve seen a number of Xsan environments spewing tons of errors in regards to Spotlight this and Spotlight that. Yup, that is with Spotlight disabled on the volumes. You can use the mdutil command to help with this. If you have two volumes, then the script to do so would be similar to the following (assuming they are called A and B): mdutil -i off /Volumes/A mdutil -i off /Volumes/B Later if you decide to implement Spotlight, you can use the following to re-enable indexing: mdutil -i on /Volumes/A mdutil -i on /Volumes/B