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Penn State Mac Admin Conference: Active Directory

For anyone attending the Penn State Mac Admins conference this year, I’ll be speaking about integrating OS X with Active Directory and options for providing network home folders on Thursday 9th July at 3.15.  Location and specifics, along with a

The dreaded D word – Documentation (Part 2)

I’m back with part 2 of my thoughts and experiences on technical Documentation. This time, I’ll be looking the types of documentation, and a few tips I’ve picked up. Types The first point you will likely find is that there

My Apple Watch experience (Part 1)

Like many people, I was unsure of the amount of use I would find for the new Apple Watch beyond being able to tell the time (very accurately though might I add). After some to and fro, I decided that

How to use the Emoji Skin Tones in OS X & iOS

Apple recently released its OS X v10.10.3 and iOS v8.3 updates. Amongst the large list of bug fixes and improvements came “a redesigned Emoji keyboard with over 300 new characters”! Not just that, but there are now various skin tones

Apple Watch: Start Your Developer Engines

Today the first batch of Apple Watches should start shipping to those lucky few. So I thought it would be nice to have an overview of WatchKit, the development platform from Apple that allows you to build Apps for the

OS X Yosemite hidden feature series – Part 4

Download your free OS X Yosemite Tips & Tricks Guide here The next part in this series, will focus on calling and messaging features. Remember, I am calling these ‘hidden’ features since they may not be obvious how to access

Enable Single Sign On Printing in OS X

Hi all. I’ve been to a fair few of our clients’ sites now that run a managed print server for their network printing needs. Almost every time, the print queues need to be SSO / Kerberised to work with Active

Mac OS X: Fixing print cue issues

I recently spent a day onsite during half term looking at a set of iMacs that were intermittently pausing their print queues. I used a few different terminal commands to work around the issue so I thought I’d share the

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Best Practices in 2015: Modular Deployment & Patch Management

Whether you have already deployed Macs in your organisation or you are trying to work out how to do it, one of our recommendations is to adopt a solid deployment and patch management approach from the start. This topic breaks

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OS X Yosemite hidden features

Since OS X Yosemite was released in October, I’ve been hunting around for those cheeky little Easter eggs that Apple like to sneak in. In this new series, I will be blogging about some of my favourites. I was going