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Configure Alerts In OS X Yosemite Server
The Server app, when run on OS X Yosemite, comes with a few new alerting options previously unavailable in versions of OS X. The alerts are sent to administrators via servermgrd and configured in the...
View ArticleReset the Server App in Yosemite Server
The Server 3 app that comes with Yosemite (aka Yosemite Server if you’re a Yosemite Sam fan) is great. But when you go making changes to some things, you’re just going to cause problems, sometimes...
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The 250 Nerdiest Movies Of All Time
Note: I’m going to turn this into a page and keep working on it. This is the draft; since it’s been sitting in the WordPress drafts for over a year, I thought I should do something with it… What makes...
View ArticleChanging the Xcode Server Log Path in OS X 10.10 Yosemite Server
The logs in Xcode Server (Server 3) by default point to /Library/Server/XcodeLogs/credserver.log. This takes all of the output from xcscredd and xcscredhandler. If you’re doing a lot of debugging then...
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Configure Apple Push Notifications In Yosemite Server
Push Notifications can be used in most every service in the Server app, especially in 3.5 for Yosemite (which I still like to call Yosemite Server as it makes me think of Yosemite Sam in a tux, pouring...
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Configure Messages Server In OS X Yosemite Server
Getting started with Messages Server couldn’t really be easier. Messages Server in the OS X Yosemite version of the Server app uses the open source jabber project as their back-end code base (and going...
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Creating Users In Yosemite Server
There are three ways to create users in Yosemite Server (the Server app running on Yosemite if you’re so bored you feel the need to try and correct me). The first is using the Server app, the second is...
View ArticleDemoting An Open Directory Server In Yosemite Server
The command to create and tear down an Open Directory environment is slapconfig. When you disable Open Directory from the Server app you aren’t actually removing users. To do so, you’d use slapconfig...
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FitBit Badge List
In case you might be new to the platform, I published a page at http://krypted.com/utilities/fitbit-badge-list/ of all the FitBit badges I’ve seen so far. Note, I also updated my Nike badge list at...
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Need A Password? There’s An App For That!
Remember this comic: Regrettably, password policies don’t allow for a few random words at most organization, so a special character, a capital letter and a number are basically required in most...
View ArticleYosemite Server And Logs
OS X Yosemite running the Server app has a lot of scripts used for enabling services, setting states, changing hostnames and the like. Once upon a time there was a script for OS X Server called server...
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Encrypt OS X Yosemite Server
Encrypting a volume in OS X Yosemite couldn’t be easier. In this article, we will look at three ways to encrypt OS X Yosemite volumes. The reason there are three ways is that booted volumes and...
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Yosemite Server: Configure Clients In Xsan 4 Environments
Yosemite brings Xsan 4, which brings a new way to add clients to an Xsan. Xsan Admin is gone. From now on, instead of scanning the network using Xsan Admin. we’ll be adding clients using a...
View ArticleCascading Software Update Service Updates In Yosemite Server
The swupd.plist file used to daisy chain multiple servers so they act as a cascade of software update servers. The new path for the property list is /Library/Server/Software Update/Config/swupd.plist....
View ArticleDelete nvram
A nifty little new option that came in OS X 10.9 Mavericks and stays in Yosemite is the ability to delete all of the firmware variables you’ve created. This can get helpful if you’ve got a bunch of...
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Integrate Nike Running App With Apple’s Health App
The new Health app from Apple provides a conduit to run all of your health data through on an iOS device in order to then provide you with a single pane of glass to see all of your health related data....
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Consolidate VMware Snapshots
Each snapshot of a virtual machine in VMware creates files. You can consolidate these files when they’re no longer needed. This can let you save space and improve the performance of virtual machines...
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Using the Help Options in OS X Server
OS X Yosemite, running the Server app comes complete with lots of awesome features to help you get up and running, started and owning the configuration of Apple Servers. One such is the built-in...
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