Apple Mac in the enterprise

looking at configuration scripts for Mac's in the enterprise. Is there any script config to show spotlight permanently on the desktop or dock?

Spotlight is already present in the top right corner of the MenuBar.
¿Are you seriously going to force all your your users do endure a desktop Icon for Spotlight?
If you gave me a Mac configured that way, I would be in your office within five minutes demanding that it be removed.
Different people work in different ways, and your job would be easier if you just provided the tools and a little coaching about where to find them than to tell people how to do their work.
There are number of Mac OS X Server features that can be deployed to restrict and expand what Mac Users can do in well-tested, reliable, and expected ways. WorkGroup Manager is the key to using these, even if you are not deploying Mac OS X Server.

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I have and apple tv,,..how do i play movies,from my apple mac,onto the apple tv..my movies are not on my itunes,but on an external hard drive...i just want to mirrow whats playing,on my mac to the tv...

I have and apple tv,,..how do i play movies,from my apple mac,onto the apple tv..my movies are not on my itunes,but on an external hard drive...i just want to mirrow whats playing,on my mac to the tv...

Are the movies in the correct format:
Video formats
H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format
Audio formats supported
HE-AAC (V1), AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound pass-through
When you say tit only sees your music folder, are you saying it only sees your music folder or does it see other empty folders.

I can't open any of my Word documents on my Apple Mac. The error code is EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT) and the blame module name is WordArt. The documents are still there, and I can open them on my iPad when I email them there. Any ideas?

I can't open any of my Word documents on my Apple Mac. The error code is EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT) and the blame module name is WordArt. The documents are still there, and I can open them on my iPad when I email them there. Any ideas?

Uhhhhh... Thank GOD... Got all of my files.
Spent some time on the phone with Apple Care... who was great to deal with but actually... not as helpful as I was hoping. It was suggested that I try DiskWarrior 4 to try to recover the files. $108 later, I had no files.
More calls with Apple Care and they were pretty sure that everything was gone since once the External drive was installed, like a moron, I let TimeMachine go ahead and back up my new MacBook... so it overwrote who knows how many gig that was my entire MacBook.
I wasn't giving up so I called Maxtor, the manufacturer of the external drive itself. They suggested file recovery software from I365... which is also a Seagate company (the makers of the drive). The suggested I simply use their demo because the demo version would find the files. If it found them, I could buy the software to restore them.
It found them! Another $129 after and I was able to restore all of them back to my old PC laptop.
NOW, I just need to figure out how to get the 50gig of HD video files off of my old laptop now and into my Mac and IMovie so I can actually make some DVDs out of them!
I get that Macs and PCs are different formats but I think it is ridiculous that formatting still means basically just wiping out or at least treating massive lots of old data as if it isn't there. There's gotta be a better way to do that.

How can I activate Dreamweaver CS3 on a second Apple Mac when the original Mac has gone wrong?

I have Dreamweaver CS3.
I have used it on my laptop and my desktop Macs.
In the past, I have simply deactivated it on one Mac to use it on the other.
My laptop, which has Dreamweaver activated on it, has a graphics card problem and is in for repair.
I cannot use the Dreamweaver installed on my desktop computer because I cannot de-activate it on the laptop (which is being repaired by Apple and which Apple say they can't access to de-activate it, because there is no screen display).
This is obviously going to be a future problem if one of the Macs blows up while Dreamweaver is activated on it. I will not be able to use the Dreamweaver I bought nor service my website.
Help! ?

You could always download the trial version until the laptop is fixed. But, I don't know if you can even save a file from CS5 that would be compatible in 3. It is sucky to not have the single user, two activation license. This is one of the things I applaud Adobe for. Most major software licenses are meant for a single machine, and not so concerned about users - that they know it's unlikely that several users would share a machine.it does happen, but it's also quite an inconvenience. The two activation solution takes into account a more realistic scenario for a single user. The other option being used with some programs is the dongle, which I also like, even though many others don't for various and valid reasons. Anyway, I just looked at a page in cs4 and it doesn't really save in any particular version, HTML is HTML. I just don't know what will happen if someone goes to open it in CS3 - will it open less any CS4 code, not open, erase the code on save? Will it be the same for 5? Just wondering as you may be able to use the trial.

Linking an Apple TV through the enterprise wifi

I am trying to create a profile using apple configurator to enable access from my Apple TV to my Meru WLan which is enterprise security. The configurator says in the trust box to set up the certificate on the credentials tab however there is no such thing as a credentials tab in apple configurator there is however one in iphone configuration utility.
Is this just a bit of poor programming and testing or am I missing something here?
Thanks

In the Configurator this is called Certificate

I have a G5 apple mac does the G5 have i built wifi or do i have to buy a wifi adapter

I need help connecting my G5 to the internet does it have in built WI-FI or do i have to buy a adaptor to save me buying wires and such

Under the Apple select About this Mac, then More Info... a list will appear. Under Network look for Airport Card. If you have one there it will be listed. This your wi-fi card.
The G5 I am typing this on had one when we bought it but that is so long ago I don't recall if it was an add-on or already there.
One thing though is that we couldn't get on wirelessly until we ordered an antenna from our local Apple dealer. Once we did that then we could "see" the wi-fi network.

I have recently bought a new apple mac 13 inch and i am trying to download everthing o have bought from my apple ID on my phone to the computer. i have already downloaded some but now i dont have the option to download the rest can anyone help?

can anyone help me find my purchases from my phone so i can put it on my apple mac. using the same apple ID

Hi danny8649,
If you are looking to redownload your iTunes Store purchases onto your computer, you may find the following article helpful:
Apple Support: Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
Cheers,
- Brenden

I have Adobe Elements 13 on a Apple Mac Air. The color switch button doesn't work sometimes

I have elements 13 on an apple mac but the color switch button sometimes doesn't work.

It probably can't be turned on at all. I suspect that your liquid damage has finally died a corrosion death on your logic board.
All you can do at this point is take the machine into your local Apple Store/AASP and have them diagnosis the problems and give you an estimate for repair.
Clinton

Recommended method to deploy apps in the enterprise

I have a Mac server configured with Profile Manager. My users at this point log into their iMacs with their Active Directory credentials. Classroom laptops use AD credentials as well, and the rest of the laptops (1/3 of all Macs on our site) have stand-alone accounts on the local machines.
We've been messing with VPP up to this point, but honestly I'm not impressed with the way it works with OSX devices. I can enroll a machine into Profile Manager via trust certificate and the management profile. This works fine, and I can group the machines in logical order. According to the documentation, I should be able to deploy apps to the workstations themselves (independent of who is using it), but so far it doesn't seem to work like that.
With a free VPP app, such as Garageband, in Profile Manager, I can only see where I can associate it with a user or user-group. I see two options with this. First, we use a common app-store credential to associate with the VPP apps. This seems like a poor option since a user wouldn't necessarily know the password to this account, and as soon as the app has an update, they are going to call us to login as the common app-store credential that owns the VPP app. Second, we associate the app to a user him/herself and let them do the installing or updating. This also assumes that our users sign up for an app-store account if they don't already have one (kind of weak, IMO).
With these two, any common area/lab machines would obviously need a shared admin accessible VPP app-store ID, but with user-specific machines, I see it the other way. If I could target all of these machines without involving the users, that would be optimal. Given these three options (target user, target shared app-store account with manual admin intervention on each machine, target machine independently of a user), what do you all recommend?

I will give my .02 on this topic. I hope this helps.
App distribution for Apps from the AppStore is a tricky mine field. The new VPP program is a step in the right direction and for many businesses it is a dream come true (no more redemption codes, transfer of assets, European Union tax issues, I can go on...). However, I will agree with you in regards that education does not benefit as much, especially when (1) the students do not have an Apple ID, (2) the devices are not deployed in the one-to-one model, and (3) users are not permitted to alter machine configurations.
VPP for enterprise is a good thing, provided your organization is willing to allow user's the freedom to add content (an use Apple IDs). The way it works is as follows.
• You enroll in the VPP program
• You purchase apps/books in bulk through the app store
• You configure your MDM to participate in the VPP
• You invite your users using an email or via push notification if devices are already enrolled
• When the user gets the invite, the user uses her own Apple ID to associate their App Store catalog with your enterprise App Store catalog (this all happens on Apple's servers)
• The enterprise does not care nor does it need to know which Apple ID the user used. This is irrelevant to the organization.
• You then assign the apps and books to the users through your MDM
• The user now sees this content in their App Store from their device
• If the user leaves the organization, you can remove the app from the user and you recall the seat into the available pool.
• The App remains on the device for 30 days I believe and the user (if this is a personal device and they still have it after being removed from the program) will be prompted to purchase the app (books are transferred - you can not pull them back).
So, all that being said, you are not deploying to an enterprise and you are not deploying to dedicated devices. I suspect that some of your users may also be too young to have an Apple ID. So while I still recommend that you participate in the VPP to ensure software compliance, the reality is that you are likely going to use a single Apple ID to download the software. This will be included in a master build when imaging and prepping machines. If there are updates, you will download the update onto a build machine and use tools like ARD, JAMF, Deploy Studio, etc to push the app out to your fleet of machines. Keep in mind that updates from the App store are full versions and they are self contained bundles. Also, turn off all software update notifications on the workstations to keep users from realizing updates are available.
I am a firm believer that schools should not apply updates to machines between September and June unless it is a tested security patch. The risk of impacting the educational process is too great. Look no further than the dramatic changing in the iLife and iWork tools. Changing mid year can cause entire curricula to be disrupted. There is no deeper wrath than that of a school matriarch dressing you down because you put out software that does not match her lesson plans.
Ok, I am done on the soap box. Hope this helped. My suggestion again is stick with the VPP for compliance reasons but use distro tools to push the updated/new apps out to machines as needed. This allows you to continue to use a single Apple ID, the account information is obscured from the user, and all updates happen via a distro push, avoiding touching each machine.
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Ipod touch 4 days old - not being recognised now on apple mac. What is going on?

I am totally disappointed with this Ipod. I had it all set up a few days ago, which we had to do at home ourselves due to requiring our current passwords etc. Today it is not recognised on the Apple Mac and the Apple ID cannot be found - it took too long to find it. The Itunes server is not recognised and for some reason I cannot find new updates for either product. They both appear to be up to date. Waste of my time. I have spent hours trying to find out what is wrong with it, I bought this in Perth at the only Apple Store last Saturday. I have purchased itunes music and this was successfully downloaded to mu ipod a few days ago. Last night I downloaded my CD's to the itunes library and haven't been able to put these onto my Ipod. What is going on????? I though Apple was a fairly straight forward reliable brand of product. Your support page is not helping me at present.

I have contacted Apple support on the above issues and will have to follow it up with them as it is more involved than what I have listed. Our Apple Mac laptop is not downloading the updates for software. The iTunes site does not recognise the "server" (comes up with a message saying this) and apparently this is a known problem. The Mac needs to have a more current iTunes update but as the computer won't install the updates (goes through all the motions from the software update on the apple icon at top right hand corner of page) , I can't use my iPod on the computer to get my CD songs that are downloaded onto the itunes library site (don't know how to get these either) and it doesn't appear to recognise my iPod touch.
I also couldn't log in to the Apple site this morning, but later on at about lunchtime I could! Bizarre. Of course I haven't had any problems logging into this site with my password and ID at all today.
So, lllaass, I am going to try Apple support again via the phone and see what happens....I have a job number to quote them when I call them back. Thanks for your suggestions - I am definitely not an IT whiz, but I do know that my iPOD did work forthe first day or so.

Flash Player 10.1 is jerky and freezes - Apple Mac

I have a MacBook (a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 2 GB of memory (1067 MHz DDR3)) running OS10.6 and had an issue with Flash 10.1 - ie. it was jerky and the picture would occasionally freeze... BUT only when trying to play a live stream. Note, watching highlighted clips were fine - ie. the quality of the playback was not jerky.
Anyways, I managed to resolve this issue by TURNING OFF the Hardware Acceleration feature within Flash Player 10.1 - which comes switched on as a default. To turn off the Hardware Acceleration feature, select the link shown below, then control-click the animated Flash Player logo and select 'Settings' from the displayed options. This will open and display the Adobe Flash Player Settings option box. Simply click inside the ticked-box next to the words: Enable Hardware Acceleration, which disables this option. It also means that you should now be able to watch live streaming using Flash Player 10.1 on your Apple Mac without the feed being jerky or freezing etc.
The required link for resolving this issue is: http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
(but remember, one has to conrol-click the animated red Flash Player logo when first shown etc.)
A big thanks to eidnolb for helping to resolve this issue for me (and for you too).
^o^

Hi Bob, Great!! Excellent choice of subject. Thanks for starting your thread and the great post including the issue, the solution and instructions:-)
It is always nice to have your computer working as it should. Thanks for marking your thread as answered as we have many Mac users posting to the Flash Forum.
Regards,
eidnolb

Can you use Apple Mac speakers with Macmini?

My old Apple mac speakers - the ones in transparent plastic hemispheres - come with a 1.5mm jack, but the Macmini has a standard 2.5mm socket. Is that because the voltage or something is different? If you fit the right jack, will they work OK?

Those are the speakers that were shipped with the Cube G4. They are analog, but unpowered. They require an external amplifier. The Cube had an amp built-in. For a while, Griffin made an external amp adapter. They no longer do.
These speakers will not work properly with a typical computer sound output, even if you come up with an adapter that makes the physical connection. The resulting sound output would be a whisper.
My suggestion: Buy new speakers and consider the plastic spheres as nice paperweights, or decorative antiques for your shelf.

Apple (MAC) and Cisco Flex Connection deployments

Good Morning,
I have some questions regarding flex connect deployments with environments that are purely Apple (MAC).   The area is about 10,000 sq feet top floor office space in NYC.
We havea bout 5 access points (unfortunatley vetically mounted) covering this space. The issue wea re having sort of seems like a roaming issue. We lost an AP that was servicing 80% of the cleints which caused all sorts of troubles with clients. They would not connect tot he other APs and would throw "timeout" errors.
Is there some log I could check to see what might have been going on?
Is there any recommended deployment guide for Apple (mainly mac book pros etc) environments?
Any real world suggestions?

Good Morning,
I have some questions regarding flex connect deployments with environments that are purely Apple (MAC).   The area is about 10,000 sq feet top floor office space in NYC.
We havea bout 5 access points (unfortunatley vetically mounted) covering this space. The issue wea re having sort of seems like a roaming issue. We lost an AP that was servicing 80% of the cleints which caused all sorts of troubles with clients. They would not connect tot he other APs and would throw "timeout" errors.
Is there some log I could check to see what might have been going on?
Is there any recommended deployment guide for Apple (mainly mac book pros etc) environments?
Any real world suggestions?

Buying in the Mac App Store for the enterprise

We're looking to buy an app in the Mac App Store (iBarcoder) for our graphic designers using Macs, and after read this article on Macworld.com, we're not too sure how to go about it.
Does that mean I could buy one copy of an app and install it on every Mac in my business?
No, the license you agree to when you enter the Mac App Store says that app downloads are for Macs that you personally own, and that's a license for personal use. Apps that are intended for professional use are licensed for you or for a single computer used by several people. While there's no technical impediment to you installing them on multiple Macs at work, you'll be violating the license agreement. It's the same scenario as if you buy a single-user copy of iWork and install it on ten Macs at work—you can do it, but you're violating the license agreement, making the act ethically questionable.
We know about the volume licensing that Apple offers, but it seems as though it's only for education and not for the enterprise. Surely creating a new Apple ID for every Mac isn't the best way to do this, right?
Thanks!

Ask Apple;
http://www.apple.com/business/vpp/

The Enterprise Mac: What works on a Mac based on my experience at SAP.

I've been a Mac User at SAP for 4.5 years and here's what I have running and what I know of that should work.
First, the stuff that I rely on everyday:

SAP Portal in Firefox - almost everything works. The navigation panel has a scroll bar in it, but is usable. I have imported my SSO certificate from Secude's SSO solution on PC into Firefox, so I can access SAP's corporate portal.
Firepass and Contivity VPN- Both VPN solutions work with my PowerBook G4, although I heard that Intel based macs don't yet work with F4 networks Firepass. At TechEd Las Vegas '06 F4 claimed that this is now fixed and SAP has yet to deploy it.
Windows Networking, File Servers- This works exceptionally well (except the resource links on mac use slashes (like web addresses) and in windows they use whacks (\). Annoying. I can authenticate agains the domain and even change my NT login password. I use Dave from <a href="http://www.thursby.com">Thursby Software</a>. For proxy serving I use auto-configuration using a PAC file.
Desk-top to desk-top sharing- I use this everyday because I have both a Widows Machine (for Netmeeting) and I need to share files back and forth. I can open the Mac from the Windows machine and the reverse. Again I use Dave from <a href="http://www.thursby.com">Thursby Software</a>.
Remote Desktop- Working for a software company inevadably need to access servers via . It works great!<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherproducts/otherproducts.aspx?pid=remotedesktopclient">Remote Desktop from Microsoft</a>.
Microsoft Office- I love it on Mac!
Email- I use Entourage, the Exchange client in Mac Office. Over all a good program but suffers from not being fully featured. My top two gripes are: You can book resources in Meeting Requests and you can't forward meeting requests!
Wireless-I use <a href="http://www.ipass.com/">iPass</a> for Mac and it works great when I travel! I can also automatically authenticate against SAP's corporate wireless network using 802.1x.
Corporate Printers- I use Dave from <a href="http://www.thursby.com">Thursby Software</a> again. It works very well. Others have had success without Dave.
Collaboration- Webex works very well, and I have heard that NetMeeting has a Java client. I haven't used it though. Anyone?
== What I heard works ==
SAPGui Java client- I also heard that it is far behind the Windows version. Any comments?
Secude SSO Java client- Apparently the version we're using inside SAP is not an officially supported version by Secude. My contacts there say that they are working on an official version in the near future. Stay tuned.
Windows Messenger- Apparently it was working in SAP, but it was taken down for security reasons... Don't know much else. It sure would make my life easier when its up since the entire company is now using it.

Hi Eric,
My experience on an Intel Mac is this:
- Any SAP website that requires a security certificate does not work in Safari. I've been led to believe this is Apple's problem, and I can work around it by using Firefox, but still. In Firefox, there are issues with SAP's websites. In the forums, for example, and page will open in the middle, in stead of at the top.
- Windows networking: the usual problem is OS X's inability to remember logins. It's fairly annoying to have to re-type my login and password every day. And at my current client I can't get to the network at all. I'll have a look at Dave, see if that helps.
- Office: it works well, now that I've upgraded my MBP from 1 to 2 GB. Before it was sluggish, and in tandem with Parallels, it was physically painful. Now, even when both programs are running, they run just fine. Although Office could use some more of "the snappy".
- I use Mail, Address Book, and iCal. It does what I need. The only thing I'd be interested in is some way of plugging into my customer's address book to find e-mail addresses.
- SAPGUI for Java: this works, mostly, but it is slow. Embarrassingly so. It's slow in general, but anytime a longish list needs to be loaded, it gets real bad. Try working in the ABAP editor with an include of 3,000 or more lines... Apart from the slowness, there are a number of missing functions for which I keep Parallels handy. Drag and drop is one, and on the 6.4 version, there was a GUI control that would make the GUI crash.
- Parallels. I can't say enough good stuff about this. Parallels. Parallels. Love it.
Some other points:
- I'd be interested if anyone has installed NetWeaver 2004s under Boot Camp. I'm a bit wary of dropping $300 on a license for WinXP when it may not ever work (Parallels is running W2K, in case you were wondering).
- At TechEd, I had the hardest time connecting to the Internet, even with Firefox. A few sites I could get to, if I disabled images, JavaScript, and Java, but most, even the common ones such as Yahoo or Google, I could not. I ran into someone else using a MBP, and she had no problems whatsoever. So obviously the problem was with my machine, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out what it was. Most frustrating!

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