Tag Archives: Macintosh

Mac – AD – Computer Check-In Interval

You’ll want to look at ‘dsconfigad -passinterval’
There’s no description for it in the manpage other than the usage syntax.
By default it’s set for 14 days. You can see the setting by running
‘dsconfig -show’.

-Eric

On 5/10/12 8:54 AM, “Steve Howe” wrote:

> I can’t answer for the built in as we don’t deploy that anymore but
> the Centrify has a timescale that can be set for how long the
> credentials are cache for. I would expect the built in Apple plugging
> to have a similar setting somewhere under the hood.
>
>
>
> On 10 May 2012, at 13:32, Eddie Wettach wrote:
>
>> We are about to deploy several hundred Macbook Airs (10.7.3) that are
>> bound to Active Directory (Windows 2008 R2). Our question is that if
>> these computers go off campus for a month and then come back will
>> everything still work? I have heard murmors of a machine password
>> that is initatied by the client and that if it doesn’t check in within
>> 30 days then the machine loses its bind or connection to Active
>> Direcotry? Is this true? Is there a way to change this to a longer
>> interval? Any other issues you can see with clients being off the
>> local network for that time?
>>
>> P.S. Our users will login once on campus to setup the mobile account.
>> They will then take them home for about a month and then bring them
>> back on campus.
>>
>> Thanks
>> – Eddie Wettach
>>
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Mac – Lion – Suppressing iCloud singin request …

OK. I found a copy of this file elsewhere and put it in the user template folder, making sure the iCloud variable was set to True.

It seems to be working.

Romeyn

On May 9, 2012, at 9:27 AM, Barone, Gabriel wrote:

> Do you have ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SetupAssistant.plist? When
> you’re using the defaults command you leave off the .plist extension, but
> the files themselves have them. Seems strange you wouldn’t have that.
>
> —
> Gabe Barone | [email protected]
> Desktop Support Specialist | Providence College IT
> Help Desk: 401-865-4357
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 5/9/12 9:21 AM, “Romeyn Prescott” wrote:
>
>> OK…answering my own question, sort of. (The coffee’s working!)
>>
>> https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=3860
>>
>> You were right…DS has an option for it. You can see the
>> “DidSeeCloudSetup” boolean in the referenced script.
>>
>> Trouble is, my lab computers don’t HAVE the file referenced!!
>> (“${USER_HOME}”/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SetupAssistant)
>>
>> 🙁
>>
>> Romeyn
>>
>> On May 9, 2012, at 9:14 AM, Romeyn Prescott wrote:
>>
>>> I’m sure it’s just a variable in a plist. I just need to find it.
>>>
>>> On May 9, 2012, at 9:11 AM, Romeyn Prescott wrote:
>>>
>>>> Oh, that’s a complicated question. 🙂
>>>>
>>>> DS is used to deploy a base, skeleton image. But I manage the Macs
>>>> day-to-day with Radmind.
>>>>
>>>> Romeyn
>>>>
>>>> On May 9, 2012, at 9:08 AM, Barone, Gabriel wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> How are you imaging the Macs?
>>>>>
>>>>> I know DeployStudio has the functionality to suppress it. I’m not
>>>>> sure
>>>>> how it does it, but it means there has to be a way.
>>>>>
>>>>> —
>>>>> Gabe Barone | [email protected]
>>>>> Desktop Support Specialist | Providence College IT
>>>>> Help Desk: 401-865-4357
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 5/9/12 8:44 AM, “Romeyn Prescott”
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I’m finally diving under the hood and getting my hands dirty with OS
>>>>>> X
>>>>>> 10.7. I figured that since I have 160 Macs coming this Summer that
>>>>>> won’t
>>>>>> run anything else I’d better get moving!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My first hurdle: suppressing the “sign in to iCloud” dialog that
>>>>>> wants to
>>>>>> pop up every time a user logs in. Initial Googling is coming up dry.
>>>>>> Then again, I haven’t finished my coffee yet this morning, so…
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Romeyn

Mac – System Updates via ARD

A script to run system updates via ARD … I like this particular script because it can be run on multiple machines at the same time without killing the network. It also does not run if the machine is in use and it forces a reboot. This script was shamelessly copied from:
http://macadmincorner.com/send-softwareupdate-command-through-ard/

#!/bin/sh

# Random number of seconds to wait
# The more machines you use this with, the higher the number should be
sleep `expr $RANDOM % 120`

if who | grep console; then
echo Machine is in use
exit 1
fi

COMMAND_LINE_INSTALL=1 softwareupdate -i -a
shutdown -r now
exit 0