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Learn how to Deploy OS X Mavericks & more!

Over the last two years, we have been teaching our popular advanced Apple IT courses to a range of IT professionals who need to fill the gap that the ACSA certification left. These advanced courses teach Apple Techs, such as

Configuring Firefox 24 for deployment

Hey Everyone! Welcome back to another Firefox deployment post (up to number 4 now). As it was only released in the last few days, I have actually tested this with version 23 and version 24 without any issues. Previously, I

Configuring Firefox for Deployment – UPDATE 2

Hi all. With the new update to Firefox (version 21.0) a few areas that the Firefox deployment configuration works in have been moved. The main change is that all the ‘working’ files and folders are moved from “./Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS” into “./Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/browser”.

Configuring Firefox for Deployment – UPDATE 2

Hi all. With the new update to Firefox (version 21.0) a few areas that the Firefox deployment configuration works in have been moved. The main change is that all the ‘working’ files and folders are moved from “./Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS” into “./Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/browser”.

Configuring Firefox for deployment

Hello again and welcome to my first post of the year. As you may have guessed, I’ve recently been working with another education deployment and so have been a little bit busy! However, off the back of that project, I

The Secrets of the User Template Folder and Firefox

Managed Preferences Part 3 – Miscellaneous In my last two posts I discussed the potential uses for managing Mac clients and how to configure them. In this post I’ll go over two related points that may be a little advanced for

Managed Preferences Part 1 – Introduction

Over the last month or so, I have had the pleasure of working on deploying Mac computers into a large school network. The solution includes the typical AD authentication and login, full network deployments as well as the ability to

Setting iTunes to Disable Automatic iOS Device Backups

We have just finished an iPad deployment project for one of our customers that had a specific requirement. The 90 iPads needed to be restored to a predefined state, once every two weeks, for the foreseeable future. To achieve this,