[MacTUG] Lab admin's secret weapon: Tips & Tricks for Mac
Management - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Marlon A. Griffith
m3griffi at engmail.uwaterloo.ca
Tue Aug 7 08:51:29 EDT 2007
If you're the person responsible for Mac support in a big, cross-platform shop,
it can sometimes feel like you're alone in the Windows wilderness. Established
communities like AFP548.com (port 548 is reserved for the AppleShare Filing
Protocol, hence the name) and MacEnterprise.org are critical resources for
anyone who rides herd on a pride of Macs in a business or educational environment.
Hidden away among the postings and troubleshooting info are some true gems,
including Apple engineer John DeTroye's "Tips and Tricks for Mac Management" PDF
handbook. If you're trying to do anything with Workgroup Manager, you need this
concise 116-page document, and you need it now.
John D's guide for workgroup and preference management -- particularly for
implementing Portable Home Folders, where user data is cached and synchronized
to a fileserver -- is so vital, it's linked from Apple's knowledge base article
on Mac Manager. Along with Mike Bombich's deployment tips page and AFP548's
AD/OD integration guide, it needs to be in the virtual library of every Mac
manager. You can download the current version of the Tips and Tricks PDF here.
<http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/03/lab-admins-secret-weapon-tips-and-tricks-for-mac-management/>
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