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Setup The Calendar Service In macOS Server 5.2
Configuring Calendar Server in macOS Server 5 (running on Sierra) is a fairly simple and straight forward process. The Calendar Server is a CalDAV Server, leveraging HTTP and HTTPS, running on ports...
View ArticleThe Services On Apple Servers
Mac Server Services RhapsodyMac Server 1Server 10.2OS X Server 10.3OS X Server 10.4OS X Server 10.5Mountain Lion Server (10.6)Lion Server (10.7)Server 2 (10.8)Server 3 (10.9)Server 4 (10.10)Server 5...
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Manage Time Machine Server In macOS Server 5.2
The Time Machine service in macOS Server 5.2 hasn’t changed much from the service in previous operating systems. To enable the Time Machine service, open the Server app, click on Time Machine in the...
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Configure The VPN Service In macOS Server 5.2
macOS Server has long had a VPN service to allow client computers to connect to a network even when they’re out of the office. The server was once capable of running the two most commonly used VPN...
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Using Wikis In macOS Server 5.2
A wiki is a repository of dynamically created and managed content, or content created or edited by multiple users collaboratively. This article is about using the wiki service in macOS Server 5.2 (the...
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Run An Apache Web Server On macOS Server 5.2
Web Services in macOS Server, Linux and most versions of Unix are provided by Apache, an Open Source project that much of the Internet owes its origins to. Apache owes its name to the fact that it’s “a...
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Configure NetInstall Services In macOS Server 5.2 for Sierra
The NetBoot service allows administrators of Apple computers to leverage images hosted on a server to boot computers to a central location and put a new image on them, upgrade them and perform...
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macOS Server 5.2 Guide
The macOS Server5.2 Guide is basically complete. There are a number of services in the server, each explored here: http://krypted.com/guides/os-x-server-5-2-sierra/. Good luck out there! The post macOS...
View ArticleGet a list of printers with the jamf binary
The jamf binary can grab a list of printers. It’s easy: sudo jamf listprinters The output looks like this: MSP Lobby HP MSP_Lobby Lobby lpd://192.168.12.201/ HP 6490 C5250 PS If you have more printers,...
View ArticleQuick and Dirty OS Installations with startosinstall
Automating OS installations is going to eventually be about as easy on macOS as it is in iOS (er, if you have MDM that is). But in the meantime, it’s getting a bit more challenging. The obvious way...
View ArticleEpisode 13 Of The MacAdmins.Org Podcast Now Available
Stoked that we got to interview Michael Lynn (@mikeymikey) for the MacAdmins podcast. It turned out to be a great episode on the future of Mac management and MDM. I’m glad we were able to have him join...
View ArticleMy quick and dirty notes from the Apple event
25 minutes about TV 13 and 14 inch pros, 14% thinner and comes in at 4 pounds – that’s extreme! Also 12% thinner than a MacBook Air, and 13% less volume 67% Brighter 25% more colors Core i7, Quad-core...
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Potential Goldmines: 5 Social Networking Sites You’ve Never Heard Of
My first piece on Inc.com is up at http://www.inc.com/charles-edge/potential-goldmines-5-social-networking-sites-youve-never-heard-of.html and deals with Social Networks that you might not consider...
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Effectively Leading Teams After The Growth Subsides
My latest Huffington Post article is up at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-edge/effectively-leading-teams_b_12791460.html and starts a little like this: Building and growing an organization is...
View ArticleCreate Jabber Chat Rooms Programmatically
Server comes with a command called RoomsAdminTool located at /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/bin/RoomsAdminTool. This tool can list available rooms using a -l flag: RoomsAdminTool -l...
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Clear Expired Shells In macOS
Recently, I got a strange message when trying to run a command: You have exceeded the maximum number of shell sessions. I’d seen a series of commands but never really needed to use them, so I ran:...
View Articleserverdiagnose Your Server Logs
Servers can have problems. When they have problems, you need to grab logs and stuff. Ever wonder what Apple developers think is important, when it comes to logs and stuff? Try serverdiagnose!...
View ArticleUpdate Ruby to Install Rails on macOS 5.3 Server
I thought there might be an easier way to do this. So there’s this binary called serverrails that I assumed would install rails – no wait, actually it’s a ruby script that tells me to ‘gem install...
View ArticleSimple XPath options with Jamf Pro
Given the increased reliance on XML in scripts and exchanging data, a number of different solutions leverage XML traversal options to get all the things done. We frequently use path to bring a file...
View ArticleCheck to See if Your Caching Server is Working
One of the first things we do when we setup a new macOS Caching Server is to check the logs to see if it’s actually serving content. You can view thee logs at /Library/Server/Caching/Logs/Debug.log. In...
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