Return of the Jedi PPTP! February 1st 2012. The day PPTP graced the Server.app GUI for the first time. For those who have no idea what I’m on about (which is most people generally) this blog post is a hark
By Richard Mallion My old favourite disk cloning tool has been going for 10 years. Mike Bombich has just released a new version, bringing it up to version 3.3.4 Among the hi-lights is the ability to clone Lion’s recovery hd
By Richard Mallion Apple has released new Firmware Updates for the older 2010-model Macs, including the MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and iMac. The update adds Internet Recovery for Lion. Internet Recovery enables installation of Mac OS X 10.7 via an internet connection. This is
Lion has a really nice new feature added to System Preferences allowing you to customise which preference panes are offered to each user. Individual preference icons can be manually hidden by the user thanks to the new “Customize…” menu item.
By Richard Mallion After the flurry of updates from Apple this week we now have some fall out. The first is to do with Apple’s Security Update for Snow Leopard. Many of the users who updated their systems with Apple’s
By Richard Mallion If you have experienced problem installed the 10.7.3 update for Mac OS X via software update or are experience strange post update problems then a quick fix to try is to reinstall the 10.7.3 update via the
By Richard Mallion Looks like Lion server is following the standard pattern of Apple software releases lately. A new version is released with missing or reduced functionality and slowly these missing features are brought back with a series of updates.
By Richard Mallion Apple has just rolled out the largest update so far for Lion, 10.7.3 which weighs in around 1GB depending on which version you download. The update consists of quite a few bugs fixes and support for some
For this weeks blog I’ve decided to take a break from complaining and concentrate on the theory behind server storage, paying particular attention to Apple’s Mac Mini Server offering. Mac Mini Server: An Overview As some of you are
As some of you know, I blogged last week about my experiences with Lion Server concentrated on a particular gripe with Lion’s VPN service. Over the last week I’ve had the chance to play with 3 different solutions to my