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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]