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Pulling Report Info from MunkiWebAdmin
Alright, you’ve fallen in love with the Dashboard in MunkiWebAdmin – we don’t blame you, it’s quite the sight. Now you know one day you’ll hack on Django and the client pre/postflight scripts until you...
View ArticleAdd OS X Network Settings Remotely (Without Breaking Stuff)
So you’re going to send a computer off to a colocation facility, and it’ll use a static IP and DNS when it gets there, the info for which it’ll need before it arrives. Just like colo, you access this...
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Sure, We Have a Mac Client, We Use Java!
We all have our favorite epithets to invoke for certain software vendors and the practices they use. Some of our peers go downright apoplectic when speaking about those companies and the lack of...
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Configure network printers via command line on Macs
In a recent Twitter conversation with other folks supporting Macs we discussed ways to programmatically deploy printers. Larger environments that have a management solution like JAMF Software’s Casper...
View Article(Sysadmin) Software Design Decisions
When approaching a task with an inkling to automate, sometimes you find an open source project that fits the bill. But the creator will work within constraints, and often express their opinion of...
View ArticleDeployStudio Scripting Tips
I’ve given a presentation on my affinity for DeployStudio, yet with it being closed source, it’s sometimes like an enigma (wrapped in a mystery (wrapped in bacon)). However, a workflow exists to enable...
View ArticleA Bash Quicky
In our last episode spelunking a particularly shallow trough of bash goodness, we came across dollar sign substitution, which I said mimics some uses of regular expressions. Regex’s are often thought...
View ArticleCreating a binding script to join Windows 7 clients to Active Directory
There are some different ways to join Windows 7 to a domain. You can do it manually, use djoin.exe to do it offline, use powershell, or use netdom.exe. Doing so manually can get cumbersome when you...
View ArticleMacPorts new-ish tricks, and a new-ish trickster, Rudix
As the bucket-loads of package providers in Puppet may lead you to believe, if we do not study history we are doomed to repeat it. Or more to the point, there is no shortage of projects focused on...
View ArticleSetting up Netboot helpers on a Cisco device
Configure a Cisco device for forwarding bootp requests is a pretty straightforward process. First off, this will only apply to Cisco Routers and some switches. You will need to verify if you device...
View ArticleAuditing Email in Google Apps
In order to address situations where a Google Apps admin needs access to a user’s mail data, Google provides an Email Audit API. It allows administrators to audit a user’s email and chats, and also...
View ArticleAdding incoming and outgoing access rules on a Cisco ASA
To understand incoming and outgoing rules there are a couple of things to know before you can define your rules. Let’s start with an understanding of traffic flow on an ASA. All incoming rules are...
View ArticleConfiguring a Cisco ASA 5505 with the basics
The Cisco ASA 5505 is great for small to medium businesses. Below are the steps you will have to complete to configure your ASA to communicate with the internet. There are many more steps, options, and...
View ArticleUpgrading VMware ESX 3i to ESXi 4.1i
Requirements: a. Workstation – Windows or linux based, either real or VM. b. The VMhost – Should be backed up, and running ESX 3i (3.5.0) c. new serial number for ESXi 4 1. go to vmware.com and find...
View ArticleLion, SSH And Special Characters
At 318, we spend a pretty good bit of time SSH’d into Linux systems from Mac OS X. Therefore, whether we’re loosing our color settings when SSH’ing into Ubuntu or unable to transfer files via SSH, when...
View ArticleSerial Adaptors, screen and OS X
Many of us use a Keyspan Serial adapter to manage devices with serial ports on them. Those who find you need to console into devices but hate the fact that you have to either use Zterm (which is no...
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MySQL Backup Options
MySQL bills itself as the world’s most popular open source database. It turns up all over, including most installations of WordPress. Packages for multiple platforms make installation easy and online...
View ArticleScript for Populating Jabber Buddy Lists in iChat
Note: Uses a Jabber server hosted on yourfqdn. The 10.6 OS X ichat server has an autobuddy feature, but this feature only works with a user’s original shortname: if they have multiple shortname...
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Preparing for Exchange 2007
Make sure you have a fully updated Windows 2008 64bit install setup for the following commands to work. Note that Windows 2008 R2 will NOT work with Exchange 2007. Exchange 2007 has a lot of...
View ArticleScreen Shots & ARD
For what it’s worth, we take ours from the command line. It helps keep proper track of the names screens. Simply open up a terminal window on a remote server via Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) and run the...
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