I've not had a chance to read through this in detail yet, but I was just sent a white paper from Corsaire about the security built into OSX (10.4 and 10.5) and some hardening guidelines. At first glance it looks like a good doc and might be worth a read. Securing Mac OS X Leopard [...] Read More…
Looks like the Mac Live Mesh client has been released - despite the 'Microsoft Confidential - Internal Use Only' lable at the bottom of the installation window :) Anyways, here it is: https://www.mesh.com/Web/MacDownload.aspx Update: I may have spoken to soon there... although the client installed properly, once it started it asks for an update but [...] Read More…
I just found this pretty good video on the apple site describing - at a high level - Mac integration with Active Directory. http://seminars.apple.com/seminarsonline/activedir/apple/ For someone from a Windows background (like me) it's worth a look. It's also interesting to see the difference in style between the Apple and MS. Given the brand personas of [...] Read More…
I got a Mac today. Ok... it's works rather than mine, but you know what I mean! :) I've always been a PC kinda guy. Not for any particular reason, I've just never needed to use a Mac, PC's and Windows have always done the job. Recently however a few things have made me look [...] Read More…
Apologies for this post, I'm writing it to collect together my own thoughts so it'll probably be even more disjointed than usual! So... we're more or less a Microsoft shop here. We run a standardised Windows XP desktop supported by Active Directory, Systems Management Server (SMS) and a host of Windows based application services. This [...] Read More…
