“Bringing the Casper Suite to Life with Virtual Test Environments” session...
JAMF Software has posted the session video for my virtualization session from JAMF Nation User Conference 2014. For those interested, the JNUC session videos are available on JAMF Software’s site. For...
View ArticleSlides from the Documentation session at MacTech Conference 2014
For those who wanted a copy of my documentation talk at at MacTech Conference 2014, here are links to the slides in PDF and Keynote ’09 format. PDF – http://tinyurl.com/MT2014DocPDF Keynote –...
View Article“FileVault 2 For Mac OS X Decoded” training video now available from Peachpit
I’ve been working with the folks at Peachpit to create a FileVault 2 training video, geared towards Mac admins that want to learn more about FileVault 2. I’m happy to say that they’ve let me know that...
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Photos from MacTech Conference 2014
Michael Lynn was good enough to pull together the complete (at least as of tonight) list of Twitter and Instagram photo posts from MacTech 2014. It's data dump time again! Photos for #MTC2014! 119...
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Using OS X 10.8’s fdesetup tool and non-enabled admin accounts to enable...
Back in OS X 10.8.x, one of the newly-created fdesetup tool’s functions was to enable users for FileVault 2. To do so, you needed to provide both the username and password of either a previously...
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create_vmware_osx_install_dmg script updated with Yosemite support
I’ve updated the create_vmware_osx_install_dmg.sh script which I had previously posted about here. The script now includes support for Yosemite, so the script can now be run on 10.7 – 10.10 to create...
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Automatically suppressing the iCloud and Diagnostics pop-up windows with Casper
When I updated to 10.10.1 yesterday, as part of the restart process I noticed that I was seeing the Diagnostics pop-up window appear on login. I had previously suppressed this window as part of setting...
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Controlling the Diagnostics & Usage report settings on Yosemite
One of the pop-up windows you get on first login to Yosemite is the Diagnostics & Usage pop-up window. This window requests permission for the following: Send diagnostics and usage data to Apple...
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Managing ESXi-hosted virtual machines using VMware Fusion Professional
When VMware released VMware Fusion 7 Professional in September 2014, among the new items included in the Features list was this one: The ability to access virtual machines running on VMware vSphere,...
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Deploying Sophos Anti-Virus Home Edition for Mac 9.2.x for personal use
With the release of Sophos Anti-Virus 9.x, Sophos changed how their antivirus solution for Macs was installed. Where previous versions of Sophos used an installer package, Sophos has now switched to...
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