Create a Yosemite Installation Drive
A bootable installer is one of the fastest ways to install Yosemite. Rather than copy the installer to a local drive you can run it right off a USB disk (or Thunderbolt if you dare). Such a little USB...
View ArticleYosemite Server SMB and Windows
A few people have hit me up about issues getting Windows machines to play nice with the SMB built into Yosemite Server and Windows. Basically, the authentication dialog keeps coming up even when a Mac...
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Upgrading To OS X Server (4.0) on Yosemite
Setting up OS X Server has never been easier. Neither has upgrading OS X Server. In this article, we’ll look at upgrading a Mac from OS X 10.8 or 10.9 running Server 2 or Server 3 to OS X 10.10...
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Yosemite Server Guide/Page Live
A blog is a great way to communicate information. But pedagogy, yo… Blogs are not great ways to teach in a guided manner. But they can be. So with a little Table of Contents, or a Guide of sorts, you...
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Upgrade to OS X Yosemite
Installing OS X has never been easier than in Yosemite. In this article, we’ll look at upgrading a Mac from OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) to OS X 10.10 (Yosemite). The first thing you should do is clone your...
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Directory Utility in Yosemite. I’m not Dead Yet… Mapping Attributes 101
The Directory Utility application has moved to /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications. Once open, you can use it to bind to directory services, change search policies and even dink around with NIS...
View ArticleYosemite and statshares in smbutil
The statshares option has an -m option to look at a mount path for showing the path to the mount (e.g. if the mount is called krypted this should be something like /Volumes/krypted): smbutil statshares...
View Articleqlmanage
QuickLook scans file contents before you open those files. Usually this just lets you view a file quickly. But you can also use this same technology from the command line to bring about a change to the...
View ArticleHow Product Managers Feel When New Features Are Loved By All
You get requests for features. Lots of requests. What do you pick? Why? Sure, vote up, vote down, statistics, choosing people you respect, looking at potential new customers, and tons of other...
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10 Reasons Uber Kicks Ass
I’ve spent way too much time traveling in my life (and way too little time writing about non-technical things). It’s had ups and it’s had downs. But these days, a bunch of fun little technical...
View ArticleStartup Profiles
The profiles command in Yosemite (and Mavericks for that matter), can configure profiles to install at the next boot, rather than immediately. Use the -s to define a startup profile and take note that...
View ArticleUse libimobiledevice To View iOS Logs
Xcode and other tools can be used to view logs on iOS devices. One of those other tools is libimobiledevice. I usually install libimobiledevice using homebrew, as there are a few dependencies that can...
View ArticleUpdate rake For OS X
Rake is basically make for Ruby. I recently needed to update rake for something I was working on. After doing so, I tried to update some stuff in Profile Manager and it seemed to work on the outside,...
View ArticleBushel and I On The OWC Radio Podcast
Special thanks to Tim Robertson and macsales.com for including me along with some of the great ones like Tidbits’ Engst family! http://videos.macsales.com/podcasts/OWC-Radio-2-21.mp3
View ArticleCommand Line iOS Device Management
The other day, we installed libimobiledevice and used it to view the logs of an iOS device. But you can do much more with the commands that were installed. In fact, if you have a paired device, you can...
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Bushel Interview with Tech.mn
Slowly but surely information about what I left 318 to do has been leaking out. And I wouldn’t say leaking. More like being broadcast to the world. I’ve worked on a few little things here and there at...
View ArticleListen To iOS Network Communications
OS X has a command called rvictl, which can be used to proxy network communications from iOS devices through a computer over what’s known as a Remote Virtual Interface, or RVI. To setup an rvi, you’ll...
View ArticleMacTech 2015
MacTech 2015 is coming in November 2015. Sign up now for the early discount and get a pretty sweet deal! Thank you for joining us for MacTech Conference 2014. The planning is underway for MacTech...
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Bushel: The Device Enrollment Program (DEP) In Action
Apple’s Device Enrollment Program (DEP for short) allows you to automatically setup devices with the settings you need on devices that your organization purchases. In Bushel, we give you the ability to...
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