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Enterprise MAC managed preferences /
Many systems administrators on the Mac need a way to manage machine configuration after initial setup and deployment. Apple's Managed Preferences system (also known as MCX) is under-documented, often misunderstood, and sometimes outright unknown by sys admins. MCX is usually deployed in conjunc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[New York] :
Apress,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover13;
- Table of Contents13;
- About the Authors
- About the Technical Reviewer
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Why Manage?
- Predictability Means Less Work over Time
- Maintaining Company Policy
- Removing Unused Functions
- Keeping Your Sanity
- Preference Delivery
- Client Management Alternatives
- Scripting
- Managing Everything Else
- Summary
- Chapter 2 What Is the Managed Preferences System?
- How Did We Get Here?
- Where Are We Now?
- The Heart of Managed Preferences
- What Can You Manage?
- What You Will Need
- Summary
- Chapter 3 Understanding Directory Services
- What Are Directory Services?
- Directory Services and Managed Preferences
- Directory Services Supported by Mac OS X
- Open Directory
- Active Directory
- LDAPv3
- NIS
- Local Directory Services
- Directory Service Configurations
- Local Only
- Network Directory Service
- Multiple Network Directory Services
- Summary
- Chapter 4 Property List Files
- What Are Property List Files?
- Property List Example
- Digging Deeper ...
- Working with Property List Files
- Property List Editor.app
- Creating a Property List from Scratch with Property List Editor
- Command-Line Utilities
- Cocoa for Scripters
- Altering .plist Files in Memory
- Summary
- Resources
- Chapter 5 Writing a Property List for Management
- Where Do Managed Preferences Reside?
- Preferred Tools for Creating, Testing, and Deploying Managed Preferences
- Using Workgroup Manager
- The dscl Command
- The defaults Command Refresher
- Summary
- Chapter 6 Delivering Managed Preferences
- Directory Choices
- Delivery with Open Directory
- Binding Mac OS X Clients to Open Directory
- Accessing the Directory
- Delivery with Active Directory
- Binding Mac OS X Clients to Active Directory
- Extending the Active Directory Schema
- Importing the LDIF File
- Managing Preferences in Active Directory
- Delivery with OpenLDAP
- Add the Apple Schema to OpenLDAP
- Consider Indexing
- Bind Mac OS X to OpenLDAP
- Further OpenLDAP Considerations
- Delivery Without a Centralized Directory
- Help! I Can't Use MCX at All
- Summary
- Additional Resources
- Chapter 7 Local MCX
- Delivery Without a Centralized Directory
- Introducing Local MCX
- Getting Started
- Creating a Computer Group
- Adding Managed Preferences
- Extending the Managed Preferences to Other Machines
- Local MCX Checklist
- Advanced Local MCX
- Dynamic Group Membership (or 8220;Smart Groups8221;)
- Local MCX Issues
- MCX in Alternate Directory Nodes
- More Local DS Node Tricks
- Summary
- Chapter 8 Compositing Preferences
- Managed Preference Interactions
- Preferences Precedence
- Preferences and Group Hierarchy
- MCXCompositor
- Viewing Composited MCX Data with mcxquery
- Viewing Composited MCX Data with System Profiler
- Summary
- Chapter 9 Enforcing Managed Preferences
- Management Frequency
- Choosing a Management Frequency
- Enforcing the Managed Preferences Configuration
- Protecting Your Managed Preference Configuration
- Summary
- Chapter 10 Preference Manifests and 8220;Raw8221; Preferences
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