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MacOS – Add Active Domain group to local mac group

Posted on March 30, 2020 by

In testing, we found that remote connections from windows clients to the built-in macOS VNC server were not encrypted in any way. To resolve this we decided to use RealVNC as the screen sharing server on Macs. Also, since we … Continue reading →

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Windows 10 – Creating Image for Windows to Go external disks

Posted on July 24, 2019 by

In 2018 we started using “Windows to Go” on externally boot-able disks to provide the “windows” half of a dual-boot mac. To make this work you need to do the following … 1) Purchase really fast external SSD drives of … Continue reading →

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Windows – Setting Application Defaults

Posted on July 1, 2019 by

With windows 10 you have to create an xml file with the file associations you want and then import that using group policy … see: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/windowsinternals/2017/10/25/windows-10-how-to-configure-file-associations-for-it-pros/

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Chrome – Understanding Browser Policy Management

Posted on May 15, 2019 by

There are several ways to manage policies in Chrome on highly managed computers. See: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/9037717

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Windows – Windows 10 LTSC 2019 different versions

Posted on March 19, 2019 by

Apparently, there are a couple of different versions of Windows 10 LTSC (named recently changed from LTSB).  The “N” version is for European Union countries effected by anti-trust court cases. the “KN” version is for Korea. See more details at: … Continue reading →

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MacOS – Create a Virtual from a fully loaded Mac

Posted on January 8, 2019 by

Virtuals are useful for so many things. I often use them to have a clean OS on which to test the installation of various software applications with an extremely fast and reliable way to revert back to the clean OS … Continue reading →

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Windows 10 – Users Not Appearing on Login Screen (Lock Screen)

Posted on June 27, 2017 by

See: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/other-users-not-displaying-windows

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Mac – Turn off Time Machine

Posted on April 10, 2017 by

To stop Time Machine from asking to use every drive you plug in as a backup drive: defaults write com.apple.TimeMachine DoNotOfferNewDisksForBackup -bool TRUE From: http://www.cultofmac.com/141070/turn-off-requests-to-use-new-disks-for-time-machine-os-x-tips/

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JAMF – Create Mac OS to deploy

Posted on February 17, 2017 by

To create an OS package to deploy one could: 1) download the OS installer from the App Store 2) this will put the installer in the /Applications folder 3) once the installer is completely downloaded it will start automatically so … Continue reading →

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Windows 10 – Useful list of Start Menu related group policies

Posted on March 22, 2016 by

A very useful list of group policies to control the new windows 10 start menu is at: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt484191%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

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