Solution available to fix the problem where the Kerberos Ticket Granting Ticket is not issued during an Active Directory user’s initial login. Apple have detailed the fix in http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4100. A fix is also listed at http://www.afp548.com/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=26509. Follow the steps below to force the creation of the Kerberos TGT on initial login. The is taken from [...]

I’ve recently been working on a project upgrading Adobe Creative Suite to CS4 for about 100 users. Why CS4? I hear you say, when CS5 is available. Well, not all companies move that fast due to compatibility with third parties, etc…. Getting back to the upgrade. The aim was to un-install CS3 and then install [...]

Your running a 10.5 server with (SUS) software update services and you’ve got 10.6 clients on your network. You want to patch your 10.6 clients but they won’t with 10.5 SUS. The Apple solution is to upgrade the server to 10.6 so it can serve 10.6 updates. An alternative solution is to use the following hack on the 10.5 SUS. [...]

Microsoft are getting their act together with Office 2011 for Mac. There are major improvements which include improved support for Exchange and the reincorporation of support for Visual Basic for Applications. [...]

Yes, the dot underscore (DS_Store and ._ AppleDouble files) are gone. They have been replaced using SMB Alternative Data Streams (ADS) also known as NTFS Streams. As a network administrator, I welcome this but it may have repercussions. [...]

I recently set-up some new iMacs, the 21.5in, 3Ghz ones running 10.6.2. All seems to be going well. However, I soon discovered a number of major problems with third party software after the iMac’s were given out the test group of users. The problems listed below have resulted in delaying the roll out of 25 [...]

Macintosh Security Company Intego, the developers of VirusBarrier have released a report on Mac and iPhone security for 2009.

The report focuses on various Trojan horse attacks, malware found in Torrent application downloads, attacks on jailbroken iPhones, Mac OS X vulnerabilities and third party vulnerabilities. [...]

MacOS X Leopard (10.5) doesn’t save resource fork information (._ hidden files) on the Isilon by default. Leopard uses the Isilon SMB Alternate Data Streams (ADS) feature which allows metadata such as resource fork data to be stored. However, MacOS X Tiger (10.4) cannot use ADS. Therefore, files (without extensions) written to the Isilon from Leopard(10.5) cannot be identified by Tiger (10.4) unless ADS is disabled. [...]