As some readers may know I currently work in Higher Education and while all of the business data is trivial to backup providing any level of backup service to students and academics is significantly harder. The challenges faced include the myriad of Operating Systems in use (Windows/OSX/Linux), the fact that the devices being backed up are inherently ‘untrusted’ (i.e. owned by the… Read more
Tag: Apple
4 SSIDs 1 Secondary Academy – Mac WiFi + Bonjour Gateway Setup
By comparison to the Domain WiFi setup the configuration for the Apple network is much simpler. The one tiny little exception is that the Apple Discovery Protocol (Bonjour) is by design unable to traverse VLANs. In many networks this wouldn’t be a problem however we have a item of software called AirServer on our Windows clients that ties into the… Read more
Deploying AirServer 1.9.6 via SCCM
Go into any school these days and it will be hard to avoid any shiny ‘iDevices’ and in support of that I have recently deployed AirServer by App Dynamic. The installer is provided as an MSI although our retailer suggested a command line option to deploy and activate the software for all users of the PC; a very nice idea there… Read more
Deploy the OSX Impero Client with Munki
Since discovering it Munki has made my life looking after Apple Macs measurably easier. In short it allows the centralised deployment of Apple OSX updates as well as the deployment (and updating) of 3rd party software. In the short screen shot guide below I show how to deploy the OSX Impero Client using Munki.