Tag: tech
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Allowing Ping on a Sonicwall From the Public
In case you are using an uptime monitor such as uptimerobot.com, you may want to monitor your primary firewall, in our case a Sonicwall. However, its a…
Fixing web based third party services after upgrading to OS X Server 5
For the most part, Server 5 has been a pleasant upgrade, but there was one rather major change that caused some headaches, especially when third-party web…
Creating DNS records in OS X Server for top level domains
It is not very common to see this, but if in a rare circumstance you are hosting a zone file in house for your DNS, but it is sharing the same domain as…
Workflow for a quick master image creation and deployment using DeployStudio
DeployStudio has become far and beyond one of the most indispensable tools in my tech arsenal for multiple Macintosh deployments. It makes it incredibly…
Flushing DNS cache in Yosemite
New command to flush DNS caches in OS X Yosemite:
Installing MDM Profiles Remotely
More tech stuff. Say you are managing tens or hundreds of OS X computers, and have a new MDM server in place, but don't want to have to go to each machine…
Watchman Monitoring
So anyone who supports Apple or Unix computers REALLY needs to look at using Watchman Monitoring. Its just a tiny client that runs in the background and…
Troubleshooting Bomgar clients
We use a Bomgar Appliance for remote access for our contract customers. Its a very nice piece of hardware, supplying some nice security for remote access…
On Certificates
So I wrote this for CR as a piece to explain the basics of Certificates. Obviously, if you've ever attempted to create and embed a certificate into a web…