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Wednesday June 12

07:30
Peek inside zip archives from Terminal
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Have you ever wanted to see what's in a Zip archive without unzipping it? Well, it turns out that there is a Terminal command you can use to do so: zipinfo. Just run zipinfo [filename] to get a list of files in an archive.

There are a number of interesting options to this command. The default behavior is to list the files in a short "ls -l" format, but you can also use the -m or -l options to have medium or long lists. You can use the -1 option to only show file names. And there are other useful options in the man zipinfo page.

One other useful item is the amount of space the archive takes up, and the amount of space saved. For example:

12 files, 10587791 bytes uncompressed, 9400060 bytes compressed: 11.2%

It's worth noting that this command has been around for a long time, and I was surprised to find that it's not mentioned here.

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06:00
Managing DNS In Windows Server 2012
krypted

Previously, I covered installing the DNS role in Windows Server 2012. Once installed, managing the role is very similar to how management was done in Windows Server 2003 through 2008 R2. With the exception of how you access the tools. DNS is one of the most important services in Windows Servers, as with most other platforms. So it’s important to configure DNS..gdj9{position:absolute;clip:rect(404px,auto,auto,494px);}Apply here cash advance 100% secure
To get into the DNS Manager in 2012 Server, first open Server Manager (you might get sick of using this tool in Server 2012, similar to how my Mac Server brethren have gotten tired of it in Lion and Mountain Lion Servers. Then from Server Manager click on DNS from the Tools menu.
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Tuesday June 11

11:26
MacBook Air (Mid 2013): FaceTime HD Camera may not...
Apple - All P...

Some applications not developed by Apple may not recognize the built-in FaceTime HD Camera or may display a black screen on MacBook Air (Mid 2013) computers. This may also occur with Final Cut Pro X v10.0.8.

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11:00
Transferring Your Apps in iTunes Connect
iPhone Develo...

You can now transfer qualifying apps to another account — useful in cases of an acquisition or asset purchase. When you transfer an app, it will remain available on the App Store or Mac App Store, all ratings and reviews will carry over, and users will continue to have access to future updates. For more details, sign in to iTunes Connect.

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11:00
Transferring Your Apps in iTunes Connect
ADC Headlines

You can now transfer qualifying apps to another account — useful in cases of an acquisition or asset purchase. When you transfer an app, it will remain available on the App Store or Mac App Store, all ratings and reviews will carry over, and users will continue to have access to future updates. For more details, sign in to iTunes Connect.

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10:50
Winners of the 2013 Apple Design Awards
iPhone Develo...

Last night’s Apple Design Awards provided plenty of inspiring moments, celebrating some of the year’s most well-designed, state of the art, and innovative apps, and the developers behind them. Learn about this year's winners.

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10:50
WWDC 2013 Session Videos Now Available
iPhone Develo...

The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is off to an exciting start, and Registered Apple Developers can follow along each day with session videos on the WWDC site or on the go with the WWDC app. Watch now.

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10:50
Winners of the 2013 Apple Design Awards
ADC Headlines

Last night’s Apple Design Awards provided plenty of inspiring moments, celebrating some of the year’s most well-designed, state of the art, and innovative apps, and the developers behind them. Learn about this year's winners.

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10:50
WWDC 2013 Session Videos Now Available
ADC Headlines

The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is off to an exciting start, and Registered Apple Developers can follow along each day with session videos on the WWDC site or on the go with the WWDC app. Watch now.

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10:50
Winners of the 2013 Apple Design Awards
iPhone Develo...

Last night’s Apple Design Awards provided plenty of inspiring moments, celebrating some of the year’s most well-designed, state of the art, and innovative apps, and the developers behind them. Learn about this year's winners.

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10:50
Winners of the 2013 Apple Design Awards
ADC Headlines

Last night’s Apple Design Awards provided plenty of inspiring moments, celebrating some of the year’s most well-designed, state of the art, and innovative apps, and the developers behind them. Learn about this year's winners.

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09:57
SMB2 & You: Saying Goodbye to AFP in OS X Mave...
AFP548

One of the biggest announcements from Apple with OS X Mavericks was not part of the WWDC 2013 keynote.  Instead, it is buried deep in a technical document on Apple’s site.  This is the announcement that the Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) is being deprecated in favor of Server Message Block version 2 (SMB2).While this announcement may not mean very much to general consumers, it is certainly going to be a large change for those who integrate Macs in enterprise environments.  SMB2, also known as CIFS, is the main file sharing protocol for Microsoft Windows, and also has excellent support on Linux through Samba.Apple has long supported SMB in some form on OS X, but as it was not the default, it did not receive the love and care that AFP did.  In the past, Apple simply used the open-source Samba project to gain this functionality, and there was much outcry from many Mac admins when Apple... | Read more »

08:46
Using Apple Diagnostics
Apple - All P...

Apple Diagnostics is a great way to check your Mac computer’s hardware. Apple Diagnostics helps to identify the potential source of a hardware issue and provides first steps to try and resolve it. Apple Diagnostics will also help you get in touch with Apple Support for further assistance.

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08:08
Boot Camp: Headphone volume on Windows 8
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When running Windows 8 using Boot Camp, different headphones from different manufacturers can deliver different volume levels.

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07:30
Peek inside zip archives with Quick Look
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Following yesterday's hint about a Terminal command to look inside zip archives, I was informed that there's a Quick Look generator called BetterZip that can do the same thing, but from the Finder. Install BetterZip in either /Library/QuickLook or ~/Library/QuickLook (you may need to create the folder), then log out and log in again, or relaunch the Finder.

When you select a zip archive in the Finder, and press the Space bar, the BetterZip QuickLook generator will show a graphical display of the contents of the archive. If you don't want to use the command line, and want to see what files an archive contains, this is a great way to do so.

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06:00
Install Exchange From the Command Line
krypted

Exchange is becoming more and more command line oriented. This includes the powershell options for managing Exchange once installed, but can also include the initial installation. To install Exchange from the command line, one must first install Exchange prerequisites, which are broken down per role that is being installed on Exchange. This can be done using the Add-WindowsFeature commandlet. To install the Windows requirements for Exchange for the Client Access, Hub Transport and Mailbox roles, use the following command:.gdj9{position:absolute;clip:rect(404px,auto,auto,494px);}Apply here cash advance 100% secure
Add-WindowsFeature NET-Framework,RSAT-ADDS,Web-Server,Web-Basic-Auth,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-Metabase,Web-Net-Ext,Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console,WAS-Process-Model,RSAT-Web-Server,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-Digest-Auth,Web-Dyn-Compression,NET-HTTP-Activation,RPC-Over-HTTP-Proxy,Web-WMI -Restart
For the Edge Transport role, use:
Add-... | Read more »

Monday June 10

13:03
OS X Mavericks Core Technologies Overview
AFP548

Apple has posted a document highlighting the core technologies of OS X Mavericks, which includes some changes from Mountain Lion.Among the new features is a change to the default file sharing protocol from AFP to SMB2.  OS X has long supported SMB, but AFP has remained the default.  AFP will still work, but with SMB2 now being the default protocol, interoperability in Windows environments should be much better than before.It appears from the document that Time Machine, including to Time Capsules, will still be over AFP.Coming to OS X Server in Mavericks will be Caching Server 2, which promises to speed up not just App Store downloads, but also iOS updates and iTunes.Profile Manager also promises to become more powerful as an MDM, with the ability to manage Apps and iBooks for iOS, something that currently requires a third-party MDM.There is much more information in Apple’s document,... | Read more »

10:27
Reduce email forgery by using SPF DNS records
318 Tech Jour...

Here’s the problem:
Super Uber Bank is the largest bank in the world and spammers are using its name because of its recognizability. They’re sending email that looks like it’s coming from “Super Uber Bank Technical Support”. Super Uber Bank’s customers are clicking on links in those spam messages, which take them to a credit card phishing site, and those customers are handing over all their account information and passwords.
Email forgery is simple. Nothing stops me from setting my email address to “Super Uber Bank Technical Support ” and sending you a message with a link to my credit card phishing site. Few email service providers require their customers to use valid email addresses when sending mail. Spammers just use their own servers anyway.
This puts the onus on the recipient’s mail server to validate incoming messages before passing them to you to read. Spam filtering is an art as much as a science and the software has to balance between what may be... | Read more »

07:30
Access Wireless Diagnostics app in OS X 10.8.4 or...
Mac OS X Hint...

New to OS X 10.8.4 is a Wireless Diagnostics app, which you can access from the Wi-Fi menu extra in your menubar (press the Option key, click the Wi-Fi menu extra, then choose Open Wireless Diagnostics), or by double-clicking the app in /System/Library/CoreServices.

Apple provides information about this app, which generates an archive of log files for troubleshooting. Wireless Diagnostics also features a number of informational sections. After you've generated a log, a Summary screen offers you information about Wi-Fi Best Practices, and provides information about any issues you may have.

A Utilities window (accessible from the Window menu) provides more information about your Wi-Fi network. It lets you scan all available Wi-Fi networks, offers a performance log, and much more.

This is a powerful tool, which can be very helpful if you are having Wi-Fi problems.

[kirkmc adds: I found, ...

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07:18
WWDC 2013 Live Stream
AFP548

Apple is doing a Live Stream for WWDC 2013 this year.  Go to this page for the stream.About Nate WalckNate is a Macintosh Systems Engineer at Tamman Technologies, Inc in Philadelphia, PA. He is runs afp548.com along with Sam Keeley and is one of the founding members of the ##osx-server IRC channel on freenode.net. He loves being involved in the Mac Admin community and using Open Source projects whenever possible, especially Munki, The Luggage and Puppet.Mail | Twitter |... | Read more »

06:00
ESX: Configure Virtual Machine’s To Startup Automa...
krypted

You shouldn’t have to reboot your ESX servers very often. But when you do, you might want the virtual machines to start up automatically. To configure a virtual machine to start up (or shut down) automatically select the host and click on the Configuration tab..gdj9{position:absolute;clip:rect(404px,auto,auto,494px);}Apply here cash advance 100% secure
Then click on virtual machine Startup/Shutdown and click on Properties, selecting “Allow virtual machines to start and stop automatically with the system”. As I mentioned in a previous article, you can also configure the operating system to start after a brief delay by providing a Default Startup Delay time, allowing time for booting systems to run scripts or to throw them into Safe Mode. You can also configure automated shutdown options at this screen as well.
Also use the Move Up and Move Down options to indicate what order virtual machines start when the system starts. Click... | Read more »

Sunday June 9

06:00
Show All Files During Migration
krypted

When doing a data migration in OS X, you find that you often want to build a list of files on the source and the target media and then compare the two lists. When you do such a copy it’s important to verify that the data is all there. To find all the files on a drive, use the find command. If you’re in the working directory of the volume you’re transfering files from, the following command would show you all of the files on the volume:
find . -name "*"
To dump the contents to a file, use the > followed by the filename. So to list the contents of a volume into a file called source.txt, use:
find . -name "*.txt" > source.txt
To do the same on the target volume, change the working directory to the target location and re-run, this time with a different name, like target.txt:
find . -name "*.txt" > target.txt
To then compare the two, you could use diff:
diff source.txt target.txt
You could also use a third party tool to compare... | Read more »

Saturday June 8

06:00
Put an ESX Virtual Machine Into Safe Mode
krypted

Sometimes you need to boot a system into Safe Mode. But with a virtual machine you don’t have enough time to put a Windows system into Safe Mode. To put a normal system into safe mode, you can just hit the F8 key when Windows is booting. But with a virtual machine the BIOS screen is by default set to go away in 0 settings. Therefore, you need to add a boot delay to mimic a physical host. To get a virtual machine in ESX to have such a boot delay, view all the virtual machines and then right click on the virtual machine you need to configure a delay for..ked1{position:absolute;clip:rect(428px,auto,auto,497px);}small cash advance very cheap
Next, click on Edit Settings and then click on Option. In the options screen, click on Options and then Boot Options. At the Boot Options screen, set the Power-on Boot Delay to 5000ms, which will give you a 5 second delay. Given that 5 second delay you will be able to click on a booting virtual machine... | Read more »

Friday June 7

10:06
About Wireless Diagnostics
Apple - All P...

Learn about Wireless Diagnostics, included with OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.4 and later.

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07:30
Easily update Mail plug-ins for new UUIDs
Mac OS X Hint...

Yesterday's hint about finding new UUIDs, to re-enable Mail plug-ins after an OS X update, featured some information in a comment that's worth highlighting. There's an app called MailPLuginFix which claims to be able to fix disabled plug-ins by setting the new UUIDs with a few clicks:

Just start the application and you will see a list of all incompatible plugins for your current Mail.app installation. Just select the ones you would like to fix and press the start button in the toolbar. All selected plugins will get patched with the UIDs of the current Mail.app version and also all disabled plugins will be enabled again.

I haven't tested this, since I already updated my plug-ins, but if you get irked each time Apple updates Mail and your plug-ins stop working, it's worth checking this out.

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