Microsoft Office 08 has this nasty problem of bugging every user for registration and update details. In an education environment, this is not good. Every new login who opens Word or any other Office app, gets annoyed to register and participate in their feedback program. The way to solve this is not too hard but [...]
InDesign was displaying a strange problem where after it was launched and a new document was created, it would freeze and hang. After an hour of messing around, I found the problem was a Japanese Typography plugin called SING in the plugins/text folder. I had completely uninstalled prior to this so I’m not sure if [...]
I have been using DeployStudio for a year or so now and Netrestore before that. After visiting another campus, I found they used Casper Suite from Jamf Software. After looking into the cost, it is significant. Especially when compared to our current free alternative. I wanted to know, who out there uses Casper and if [...]
We were having some issues trying to get our iChat server to authenticate correctly against Active Directory. The fix was rather easy so I thought I’d share. Our Leopard Server was already joined to our Domain so that’s where iChat users should authenticate. Unfortunately we were getting this login error over and over.
So first thing [...]
I have heard different things from different sources about weather VMWare Fusion runs correctly under 10.6. Turns out that Fusion runs in 32bit mode and unless you are running Fusion on a Snow Leopard server, you should be OK.
VMware Fusion 2.0.5 offers experimental support for the default install of Snow Leopard, which runs both 32-bit [...]
I got my hands on Snow Leopard and decided to test some important features that work properly in the current version of Leopard. This is what I’ve found working and not working so far. Once again, these are things that are important in our environment.
Working:
Joining Open Directory by hand.
Joining Active Directory by hand.
Logging into accounts [...]
We recently had to inforce a print auditing system at our school. We chose Pcounter and it does work on both Macs & PC’s. We have a Windows 2003 Server hosting the printers and the Pcounter server app lives there. This tutorial will focus on the clients configuration in an OD & AD environment.
Install the [...]
In our environment, we use Sassafras K2 to control our licenses and limit machines from running apps over our liscense limit. I recently had to deploy K2 to a bunch of macs. You can use Apple Remote Desktop to deploy the mpkg file but it will prompt for a keyserver address. Follow the following steps [...]
Here’s the situation. A photo project is due by tonight and I just found out my iPhoto app doesn’t work anymore.
My iPhoto icon doesn’t look so happy.
So I need to reinstall iPhoto but I don’t have an iLife disk, I have my original Leopard install disk that had iLife bundled in it. Heres how I [...]
Any IT Dept. knows, that a correct inventory is almost impossible to accomplish. I decided that there had to be a way to force my co-workers into accurately moving assets and recording their changes in inventory. My solution was a two part process. Make the inventory very easy to access and edit and make the [...]