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My Take Control Of OS X Server Book Now Available!
Thanks to all the awesome work from Adam and Tanya Engst, Tidbits announced today that my Take Control of OS X Server is now available! To quote some of the Tidbits writeup: Some projects turn out to...
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Bushel Goes Into Invitation Mode!
Yesterday the Bushel team finished some new code. This code allows you to refer your friends to Bushel! This skips the codes that everyone was waiting for and lets people create accounts immediately!...
View ArticleMacVoices Podcast With Chuck Joiner About The New Take Control Of OS X Server...
Yay, podcasts! Chuck Joiner was kind enough to have me on MacVoices. We did a show, now available at http://www.macvoices.com/macvoices-14223-charles-edge-helps-take-control-os-x-server Or if you’d...
View ArticleThankful for CodeMonkey
This Thanksgiving, I’m thankful for a lot. I’m healthy, my kid is healthy, my life is totally rad, there’s no snow to shovel today. But I’ll share one of my favorite videos that I’m thankful for:...
View ArticleWhat A Morning!
It’s a random Friday morning. I wake up ready to work and the radio on my AirPort stops working. I reset the device, do everything I know to do, but there is no SSID, no radio signal whatsoever. What...
View ArticleAll Giddy About Star Wars VII
That light saber doesn’t look very safe. But it does look like some awesome cinematic goodness. Wonder if his name is the Mule… Asimov fans everywhere would be like “I knew it!”
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Quick-Tip: Menu Items Modifier Keys In OS X
A modifier key is a key that when held in combination with another key, causes a unique behavior. For example, Command-c copies highlighted data to your clipboard. The Finder modifier keys are pretty...
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How To View What Payloads Do To Devices
You can see exactly what Bushel, and other MDM platforms do to your OS X devices using the System Information utility. As with all Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions that interface with OS X, you...
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Casper 9.62 Is Out!
Casper 9.62 is now out! And holy buckets, look at all the stuff that got fixed in this release:...
View ArticleGet The Current Logged In User From The Windows Command Line
You can get the currently logged in user from a powershell script by using $env:username. But most deployment scripts use elevated privileges. Therefore, you need to be a tad bit craftier. Here, we’ll...
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Enable AutoAdminLogon For Windows Deployments
There are 3 registry keys that admins in the Windows world use to enable automatic logins, often required for deployments that require a logged in user to setup user environments, such as configuring...
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Check Active Directory Status On Windows
When scripting, sanity check logging takes way more time that actions. Before binding to an Active Directory domain, you should verify that your system isn’t currently a member of an Active Directory...
View ArticleSee How Long The Active User Has Logged In On A Mac
The following will grab you an integer of the number of hours an active user has logged into a computer: user=$( ls -l /dev/console | awk '{ print $3 }' ) ; ac users $user | awk '{ print $2 }'
View ArticleRefresh OS X CRLs
I recently found an existing image with a lot of stale crl information. We couldn’t rebuild the image, so we decided to instead refresh all of the crl information. This information is stored in...
View ArticleOpposite Day: Reversing Lines In Files
The other day, my daughter said “it’s opposite day” when it was time to do a little homework, trying to get out of it! Which reminded me of a funny little command line tool called rev. Rev reads a file...
View ArticleScripted Country Geolocations Using OS X’s Built-In ip2cc
Recently I was working on a project where we were isolating IP addresses by country. In the process, I found an easy little tool built right into OS X called ip2cc. Using ip2cc, you can lookup what...
View ArticleSimple Preflight and Sanity Checking in Scripts
I was recently building some preflight scripts and was looking to record some information about a machine live, before proceeding with a script. I found the cheapest way to determine information about...
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Reboot Your Own Machine At MacMiniColo
Even a Mac needs to be rebooted sometimes. If you host a computer at Mac Mini Colo, it’s pretty easy to reboot. To reboot your system, log into your account with MacMini Colo. Once logged in, click on...
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