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MacOS – Add Active Domain group to local mac group

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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Mac – Turn off Time Machine

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

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

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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