@kevin-ward-0 said in Mac management basics:

Mac management basics

Try here, the exams are provided through PearsonVue.
http://www.pearsonvue.com/apple/

Tanks as always

@duncan-lawson238,

Sorry it's been a while since was able to reply. I was able to talk to Don about this for just a brief time. Currently, even though it's requested he doesn't see it making our schedule above the other more highly requested content.

I wanted to let you when I found something out.

@charles-hamill said in macOS in Windows Enterprise:

Configure the Mac to work in a Microsoft Environment
Is there such a thing as a PUBLIC DESKTOP folder similar to what Windows has?
Troubleshooting the keychain

Charles,

I am sorry, as I hit 'Submit' before I finished responding to your full set of questions.... So here is Part 2 of your answer:

Setting u the Mac to work in a Windows Environment can mean many things, and as a result may involve a variety of tools and / or additional software. It would be helpful if you could provide a little bit of additional information as to what specifically you would be looking to do, such as extending Active Directory support to the Mac, in which case a toolset such as Jumpcloud would be good to examine:

http://go.jumpcloud.com/AD-Bridge-Signup-JumpCloud.html?rs=AdWords&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIvL6W5ub12AIVARqGCh3wCwqiEAEYASAAEgKI8vD_BwE

For the Public Desktop folder item, take a look at these two sites to get a sense of what is going on under the hood with directories and the finder tool:

Get to know the Finder on your Mac:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201732

Mac OS X Hidden Files & Directories:
http://www.westwind.com/reference/OS-X/invisibles.html

Troubleshooting the keychain, check out this:

Mastering iCloud Keychain
Troubleshooting iCloud Keychain: The ultimate guide:

https://www.imore.com/troubleshooting-icloud-keychain-ultimate-guide

Hope these help out as well. :)

Hey Russell,

If you would like to see the results of different types of invalidate certificates you can browse to https://badssl.com/
which is a site that I use on the show to demonstrate certificate valid. It is from some of the Google and Mozilla dev crew. Hopefully you find it valuable too.

@ryan-white,

When it comes to production networks, usually the go distro would be RedHat Linux Enterprise. This has the added benefit of support but does cost more than the other editions and administration does require some knowledge.

If you're willing to work without support but more end user friendly, I would say that Ubuntu Server 16. x LTS is probably more user friendly but still requires some command line configuration, just as all Linux distros do.

I'll ask Don to weigh in on this too. He may have a better suggestion.

I hope some of the ITProTV members will also weigh in here to help!

Update: I was able to talk to Don about this today. We're in agreement with two exceptions which I did not know. One, that Ubuntu Server has server support from Canonical. Two, there is SUSE Linux which is also a supported distro not as big here as over in Europe but it is available.

If you want to stick with the RedHat Enterprise but don't need the support you can also run CentOS--which is a really a clone of RedHat.

@Angie Thank you SO much, Angie!

I really appreciate your time.

Have a great week! :)

Congratulations christopher-alimena! :)

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@Ricky-Lee,

Don Pezet and Mike Rodrick began with the Mac Integration this week but, I'm not sure when that's due to be complete before starting the ASCP or Technical Coordinator.

I know Don will be out of the office after today's show for the remainder of the week. So the Apple Sierra shows are beginning.

You are welcome, I go through days like that all time, where I am like "OK I should know this". Sometimes it helps to walk away for a second and then dive back in lol!

@Andy-Kwong,

Remember that Don set up a Mac OSX Server first and connected his desktop to it. When doing, it gave some additional options to the client under updates.
These updates are located under the appstore in system preferences but you can
navigate to the /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate and delete the file. Even so, he mentions a better way to do this later in the episode

@Andy-Kwong,

Actually yes, you're sharing your internet connection.

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21817?locale=en_US&viewlocale=en_US

@Andy-Kwong,

I just conferred with Don on this and we believe one of two or the combination of two thing may have been the key:

This may have been available in an earlier edition of El Capitan. This installation may have been on a mac mini with a conventional HDD rather than an SSD.

He knows it possible because it's in the show but that's the only logic that make sense since all articles are pointing to the fact that the feature is removed in El Cap.

The work around is from the Terminal:
srm -v then drag the file into the terminal window for it's path to show up and press return.
srm-rv if you choose delete folders.

Thanks for the feedback. Hope the itPROtv team had a happy holiday. Oh, and happy new years!

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@Benjamin-Skripnik,

I just checked their training site
http://training.apple.com/en/certification/onlinecert.html

click on the version of OSX 10.11 or OSX 10.12 , you'll at least two of these can be taken online. I would start there.

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