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Written by J. Douglas Willen
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Tuesday, 06 March 2007 |
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Recently at Swarthmore College we set up a new Xsan and workstations to support a small, four station video editing lab. A major challenge was to maintain as much control and keep the machines as clean as possible. We instituted both Active Directory binding using Directory Services, so that users could log in with their network credentials which we could also use for access control on the server space, and also bound the machines to Open Directory to manage machine specific settings and policies, such as access and software updates. We've been very pleased with the success of this "Magic Triangle" system (see below) and we've detailed some of the critical pieces of the process of combining that with the Xsan implementation and some things to watch out for in this article.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 05 June 2007 )
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Written by Greg Neagle
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Monday, 26 February 2007 |
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Data security is a hot topic in Enterprise IT these days. With growing numbers of company employees using laptops instead of traditional desktops, the risk to company data is greater than ever. If a laptop is stolen or lost, the replacement cost of the hardware may be a pittance compared to the value of the data.
This is why many companies are mandating some sort of data encryption for company laptops. If a laptop is then stolen or lost, the data would be inaccessible to the thief. Mac OS X includes a feature Apple calls "FileVault," which secures users' home directories with AES-128 encryption.
This article will attempt to present some of the issues you may encounter when implementing and supporting FileVault in an enterprise environment, and techniques to use to deal with some of these issues.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 20 May 2007 )
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Written by Justin Elliott
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Sunday, 03 September 2006 |
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If you've ever had problems with startup items not being able to resolve hostnames in DNS at bootup time in 10.4, the problem might be solved via either a software configuration change or a network switch change. Both methods have pros and cons. Be sure to read carefully before deploying. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 30 October 2006 )
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Written by Josh Wisenbaker
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Thursday, 18 May 2006 |
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Mac OS X 10.4 added the ability to set and respect ACLs to the OS. In general this has been a boon for Mac sysadmins, but have you ever tried to use the Finder to view the contents of a folder that has a large amount of ACLs to evaluate? The process is a painful one involving long pinwheels and Finder crashes.
It's clear this is a Finder issue as other tools can browse the directories without any delays at all. (I have a bug open on this issue. Radar# 4209575 if anyone wants to reference it.) As Mac OS X continues to be integrated into more institutional and enterprise environments the inability for the Finder to deal with large amounts of ACLs in any given directory becomes a impediment to it's acceptance. This issue has reared it's head in a particularly savage way when dealing with Active Directory integration. Here is why it happens and one solution to a common issue.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 29 May 2007 )
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Written by Greg Neagle
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Wednesday, 29 March 2006 |
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Recently, several intrepid Mac administrators have demonstrated ways to create a "universally" bootable install of Mac OS X 10.4.5 - a boot disk/image that boots both PowerPC-based and Intel-based Macintoshes. This development could simplify an administrator's life, or usher in a new set of challenges.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 14 July 2006 )
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