Apple has posted a technote - recommending updates to StorNext 4.2.1 if you’re using it with Xsan on Lion – there are case sensitivity issues that could cause data lose. For all customers who have migrated to StorNext – we’ll be in touch about this – if you have any queries don’t hesitate to contact [...]
Apple have published a new video on their education website showing the OS X Lion Server “Profile Manager” feature, as well as some features in Workgroup Manager. Profile Manager has an impressive feature set including a standard location for a user to receive settings for both their iOS and Apple devices. The “Lion 201″ training [...]
We’ve got two positions currently advertised on the Seek website. We need a couple of admin staff, to help us grow. If these sound like you, please follow the links for the full descriptions. Look forward to hearing from you! Sales Co-ordinator. Link on Seek Project and Training Co-ordinator (Maternity Cover) Link on Seek
Rick Wylie, our CEO, as well as Duncan McCracken, one of our Senior Engineers recently spoke at the MacSysAdmin conference in Sweden. Rick gave a great talk about IPv6 and how to implement it and Duncan used his experience from his own package creation company, Mondada, to recount some best practices for package creation and [...]
Kerio have just announced version 1.1 of the Workspace product. It’s a great system for working together in a team – It can be used as a central information site about your business, or as a Project share – with links to other websites, media for the project (including video) One of its more powerful [...]
ArchiWare have announced a release as per below: P4 & OS X Lion The OS X Lion release has been announced for this month. Everybody is excited to try out the new system. But please keep in mind: It is common best practice in data management to keep your running system in place. Please do [...]
If you have accidentally installed the “MacDefender” malware – it often comes up as being a warning advising your mac may be infected – apple has made a useful technote on removing it here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4650 If you have trouble, or have any concerns about the MacDefender and what it might have done to your system [...]
Using the OS X Server Software Update Server feature is great for saving some bandwidth with all those clients downloading the same updates! Previously to OS X Server 10.6.7, you used to need to use a different address for your 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6 clients to connect to it. However I noticed the other day [...]
Apple recently posted their “Q and A” on location data trying to remove some of the concerns about the data gathering it does for location tracking. MacWorld magazine has an interesting article on how “assisted GPS” works in the iPhone and expands on what Apple says and how the behaviour works – including suggesting why [...]
We use Dropbox a huge amount for moving files around and working together on documents – if you don’t already use it – it’s a terrific application for sharing files between computers and your mobile devices. You get 2GB of storage space free – and when save a file into the Dropbox, and it makes [...]
