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Join me on my journey as I share my insights and experiences on all things Apple, Business and Entrepreneurship!
Join me on my journey as I share my insights and experiences on all things Apple, Business and Entrepreneurship!
If the goal is to manage fonts and ensure that you’re legal and compliant with font usage you can’t let people have their own dubious fonts on their system, so how do you ensure that people safely remove and restore users font libraries? Enter Font Restore, a built in OS X command to safely reset the font library. Heres the command.
I have used SCCM for a while now and have to say that I find it very very powerful. The fact that collects plenty of information from the clients, uploads it to a SQL db and keeps a history, plus the ability of create dynamic computer collections based on querys to the SQL and then target those groups with tasks makes it extremely useful in an enterprise environment. Plus the amazing reports you can get if you have an SQL guru around!
lient running munkitools 0.9.1.x or later Web service that is tracking available seats and that provides information in a specific format in response to queries. One such server is MunkiWebAdmin as of 16 July 2013. If you have a running instance of MunkiWebAdmin, make sure you’ve updated to the latest code. See this post for instructions on how to update MunkiWebAdmin.
You might be asking: Why add and remove printers using Munki? Why not just use Profile Manager?
Many third party utilities have been created to work along side Munki to augment the ability to manage inventory and other aspects of Munki such as software reporting, software licensing escrow, and machine tracking. One of the best utilities has been Munki Web Admin. A great walkthrough can be found on setting up Munki Web Admin on an OSX Server here https://code.google.com/p/munki/wiki/MunkiWebAdminOSXSetup but very little documentation exists on how to update your current installation to run effectively on Mavericks.
Note, I was struggling to get this to work and realized that if you do not have a mass deployment serial number or serial key that is valid for a volume license then the installation seems to fail. Thats because the steps we are about to take use a command line utility to register the software on install and then suppress the prompts to register the software. If you get software installation errors then make sure that your serial number is valid.
All of this hinges on a few things. First your company has to be willing to enroll in Apples Volume Purchasing Program many companies are not interested because many companies are simply looking for a method to deploy FREE software on the App Store not paid software. The second reason why their program is a turn off to many businesses is that you have to provide a DUNS number many companies do not have one, and are not at the point where they are looking to get one.
One option is to have everyone in my company sign up with an Apple account and download it from iTunes. This can be slow and tedious and its not very efficient. Enabling Caching server on OSX Server could make it more tolerable but still its not an overall enterprise solution that is easy to manage. So many things can go wrong if people are not willing to wait through the somewhat lengthy install process.
Then 10.7 came out and with it the slow death of MCX and profile manager emerged. I was so excited but also a little disappointed many of the MCX preferences either did not work properly an required the use of both MCX and Profiles in order to fully manage computer systems MCX for 10.6 Profiles for 10.7 and then 10.8 came out!
Why should web based backups be treated separately or looked at with a different kind of strategy? Why cant I just use Time Machine or Crashplan? Well simply put you have many moving pieces, pieces that can be quickly backed up and recovered separately instead of performing lengthy system backups and restores. Do not get me wrong I am a huge proponent of system wide server backups but if MYSQL crashes or PHP has a corrupt configuration file a long restore may or may not get you back on track...
