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Intermediate Mac OS and iOS Blogs

All You Need to Know About macOS Command Line and Terminal

During several of our macOS Support Essentials classes it has been clear that many people wish to use the Command-Line much more in their day-to-day user support. Unfortunately, the last time that this was taught at a client support level was

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Mac OS X

Exporting Users from OS X Server for Yosemite

With the release of OS X Server for Yosemite, Apple retired Workgroup Manager, thus leaving us System Admins no GUI method of exporting users and groups out of the server. The old Workgroup Manager tool gave us the ability to

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Other Technical

Setting the Network Time Server from the Command Line

Hi All, here’s a short and sweet blog post to kick off the new year! I often get asked about setting up NTP configurations on client devices in a better way than manually. You can do this from the command

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Amsys Blog

Get SendEmail working with Yosemite and Mavericks

Get SendEmail working with Yosemite and Yosemite using SSL A while back, we found a nice little command line tool to send emails with authentication settings, custom subjects, etc., without using any of the built in email sending tools. This

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Amsys Blog

Get SendEmail working with Yosemite and Mavericks

Get SendEmail working with Yosemite and Yosemite using SSL A while back, we found a nice little command line tool to send emails with authentication settings, custom subjects, etc., without using any of the built in email sending tools. This

Amsys' Mavericks OS X 10.9 Advanced Deployment course arrives!

Hello Mac fans! Continuing my series of blogs reporting back from what’s new in the training world of Amsys, last week I delivered our first Advanced Deployment 10.9 course at our South London Apple training centre. For those of you

Munki Configuration Part 3: Command Line Configuration

Hi again, and welcome to the third instructional blog in this Munki series. In this post, I will show you how I import a new installer into the Munki Repo from the command line. Some notes for this series as

Bash Scripting: Proxies

Hi all. Welcome back to part 2 of the network configuration series. In this blog I will advise how to apply some proxy settings to your network locations Catching up In last month’s bash scripting blog, we created a new

Bash Scripting: Proxies

Hi all. Welcome back to part 2 of the network configuration series. In this blog I will advise how to apply some proxy settings to your network locations Catching up In last month’s bash scripting blog, we created a new

How to Disable Dashboard in OS X

Here’s yet another tip in my ‘how to disable Series!’ Now Dashboard can be useful, but I understand that there is the need to disable this perhaps within a managed working environment. Luckily, the good old command line has an