Category Archives: MacAdmins 2014 Sessions

Every year IT departments refresh large portions of their fleet to keep hardware configurations current.  Depending on the customer, this process could tie up the IT department with multiple man hours, and cause the customer to experience unexpected downtime to … Continue reading →

It’s an unfortunate fact of life that software has bugs. Often times in IT, users report problems or inconsistencies that can be linked to these bugs. Bug resolutions are usually completely dependent upon fixes that need to be released by … Continue reading →

The IT professional is a profound and complex beast. If you’ve worked with one, you surely have tales of triumph and despair that would make a grown man cry. If you ARE one, you’ve surely experienced the heartache and frustration … Continue reading →

A case study guide on building VMware VSphere ESXI bare metal Mac Minis to host Mac OS X virtual machines. Note: talk will go over steps that will invalidate Apple warranties if users are not hardware repair certified, and intended … Continue reading →

This session will detail how Yale’s ITS organization transitioned from a Mac imaging workflow that depended on a university-wide “standard image”, laboriously deployed via USB drives, to a network-based “thin imaging” system which forgoes disk images. We’ll detail how we … Continue reading →