By Russell Harris : Bring Christmas cheer to your OS X computer name in El Capitan (Updated blog from OS X Mavericks!) In 2012, our Amsys IT Director Richard Mallion blogged about how to ‘Bring Christmas cheer to your computer
By Russell Harris : Whilst delivering an Apple Certified OS X Server Essentials course this week (http://training.apple.com/pdf/yos101.pdf) (http://www.amsys.co.uk/course/os-x-server-essentials-10-10/), one of my students experienced a malfunctioning Spotlight where search results were not working. I have come across this issue a couple
I’m writing this blog after having sat through Rich Trouton’s great JNUC talk on OS X security, especially around the use of SIP. The usual Disclaimer: While the author has taken care to provide our readers with accurate information, please use
Next in this series is a short blog about a relatively new way to mount network drives with configuration profiles. This process uses the login items payload in a configuration profile to set the target Macs to mount the network
Now that OS X El Capitan (OS X 10.11) has been out for a little while, I have managed to stumble across some of those cheeky hidden features (AKA Easter Eggs) that Apple love to slip into an OS update.
With the introduction of OS X Server 5, Apple has added a new way to share files to iOS users. In the past, we had the WebDav option, which is still available. But now a new iOS sharing option is
Along with El Capitan, Apple released Apple Configurator 2. This should be seen as a new tool and not an update for Apple Configurator 1. There will be a lot of guides on how to use Apple Configurator 2 etc.,
Hi All. Over the last little while I’ve noticed a number of questions regarding DeployStudio, varying from uncertainty over the Netboot and Repo locations, right to ‘How do I DeployStudio?’ I’ve also heard a few complaints regarding the documentation for
If you only need one reason to run an OS X Server, then the caching service is it. This is a must service for any company who utilises Apple devices. For an understanding of the caching service please see these
Building on my previous blog post, this article will describe some of the methods you can use to provide network drive shortcuts for your users. Specifically, we will include: Favorites in the Connect to server box Manually and programatically adding