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Warning about Airport 7.5.2 Firmware

If you are using NAT on your Airport Extreme (mine is 802.11n gigabit) or TimeCapsule, but serving DHCP from another source (ex. Mac OS X Server), fi...

Solution to 10.6.5 Server LDAP problem

I've found that on some servers, the 10.6.5 update kills LDAP. If you have run the update and are still able to login to the server via filesharing, ...

Temporary Fix for Open Directory/Time Machine problem in 10.6.3 Server

While running TimeMachine on Mac OS X Server 10.6.3, some of my clients and I were experiencing problems with Open Directory. Almost every time backu...

Finally finished server upgrade

I've finally finished migrating my server to a new machine running Snow Leopard Server (10.6). I'm really disappointed with the "push" features th...

10.3 Server to 10.4 Server Upgrade

When upgrading from 10.3 Server to 10.4 Server, the installer does not create a system group called "certuser". The group number should be 29....

Migrating SSL Certificates from 10.5 to 10.6 Server

I haven't been able to find a way to directly migrate SSL certificates from one server to another. I did find a workaround... 1. create a self-signed...

Upgrading to Snow Leopard Server

I'm in the process of upgrading my server to Snow Leopard. Services may be down for a little while.

Blog finally migrated

I upgraded my server to 10.5 back in October.  10.5 Server uses completely different blogging software than 10.4 Server.  I finally got around to m...

Spam Defense

Great article about combating spam on Mac OS X10.4 Server... Frontline spam defense for Mac OS X Server from osx.topicdesk.com.

Software Update Server

If you're running Software Update Server and you want client machines to use that server for updates (while not managing in Workgroup Manager)...

Mailman - export email addresses

To export all email addresses from a mailing list: /usr/share/mailman/bin/list_members -o /MailingListMembers.txt

Now Certified for Apple Xsan Administration!

I took the Xsan Administration test today and passed with flying colors.

Enable Weblog Admin

Edit (with pico or vi) /Library/Tomcat/blojsom_root/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/username/flavor.properties (replace username with your username) ...

Incorrect Username Can Kill Weblog Server

If a user tries to create a weblog using an incorrect username (including incorrect capitalization), it can kill OS X's Weblog server. To cor...

More Mac OS X Server (10.3) Tips

Repair Mailman Permissions: sudo -u mailman /usr/share/mailman/bin/check_perms -f Create Mail Aliases: (run all with sudo privs) pico ...

Mac OS X Server (10.3) Tips

When ARD isn't working properly on a client machine, run the following: ssh root@ipaddress"killall ARDAgent" To create home directorie...