If you've not used pkgbuild before, it can be a bit daunting to go from the (admittedly rather confusing) GUI-based Package Maker to the command-line tool pkgbuild, but never fear, for making simple packages, it's actually a lot easier. To...
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If you've got a WHM/cPanel server, and you want to run an alternative mail server on one IP address and have Dovecot and Exim bound to another IP, it's not as straightforward as you might first hope. From what I can...
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With Apple hiding a lot of the more useful and fine-grained controls over the services on OS X Server, the SMB Service is one area that has suffered. There is no longer any control whatsoever over Windows file sharing, other...
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One thing that is a lot harder than it needs to be is managing the internationalisation preferences in OS X from a script, via MCX or via a configuration profile. For some unknown reason, this is a simple change to...
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To cut a long story short, if you're trying to get Kerio Connect to authenticate against an OD server running on 10.7 or 10.8 (Lion or Mountain Lion) that's not running on the same server as it, you'll need to...
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It seems that when starting up the SMB service on OS X Mountain Lion Server, there is a race condition and some of the prerequisites may not get started up in time for SMB to properly initialise. Fortunately, there's a...
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OK, it's no secret, I hate Windows Update. I think it's absolutely unbelievable how many updates it needs to run, and how many times it needs to reboot, before a freshly-installed Windows machine is fully patched and up to date....
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I have done a number of mail server migrations and imapsync has come through with shining colours for me in the past. I'm moving a client's email up to Telstra's hosted Office365 solution and needed a way to push a...
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If you're doing a quick-n-dirty deployment of a few Macs, and instead of building a real SOE, you just build one machine and image it to the others, you can easily end up in a situation where you can only...
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I was setting up a Lion Mac mini Server for a client and after changing the local administrator's password, I was unable to access any of the services via either Server Admin or the Server application. Fortunately there's an answer...
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