Testing Leopard

Just wanted to throw this out there, I have been testing leopard for our mac users at work, we won't considering migrating until adobe endorses full support for leopard, but i did want to share a tid-bit of information with you, things I have picked up....
1. To get the system to authenticate to the domain, you may have to manually set the DNS address(es), even if the system does pick them up.
2. If you use a Microsoft Exchange server w/ Entourage as your client, install SP2 for Office 2004, this gives you access to all of the public folders, though it is not as fast as outlook.
3. There is a new feature in leopard called screen sharing (You can enable it in "Sharing" in Sys Preferences", you can access the application by opening finder, click your install drive, open system, library, coreservices, and navigate to "Screen Sharing". Launch it. It will only ask for the computer name. You can figure this out from here.
3b. If you have macs in the workplace but you are stuck on a PC, you can use TightVNC to remote into the mac (I couldn't get RealVNC to work, though I didn't try that hard).
4. If you don't like transparency (And some people don't), you can disable it by opening terminal and typing "sudo defaults write /system/library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.WindowServer 'EnvironmentVariables' -dict 'CINO_BACKGROUNDIMAGE' 1".

Thanks for sharing,
About 3. I just wanted to add that you have actually a simple way to use Screen Sharing : just use Command-K in Finder (or use "Go" menu) and use a URL of the form "vnc://IP_address/"

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