The Power User's Guide to a Smooth Leopard
Installation
Macworld Expo
January 17, 2008, 1:15PM, Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, CA
So you're a power user and you've gone through lots of operating system upgrades over the years. But remember that time you upgraded and you lost your email settings? Or remember that time your Internet VPN blew up after installing the latest OS? Well, you may not have access to an IT department to handle the upgrade for you but do have three seasoned members of Apple's Consultants Network who handle hundreds of upgrades each year leading this session for you. They'll cover topics such as making sure you have a clean and complete backup before beginning, issues that might crop up with VPN software, well known commercial software and products to avoid or update when using Leopard. Although some quick fixes can be made using Terminal or Apple Remote Desktop, they will also focus on creating a clean base Leopard installation along with Apple's PackageMaker and other utilities to make installations of the OS and applications, quick, flexible and painless.
What's Your Preference? Control Leopard's User Settings and Manage Plists using Apple Remote Desktop.
Macworld Expo
January 18, 2008, 9:00 am, Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco
Leopard gives us even more control over the systems you manage as a computer administrator for your organization. Managing plists gives you ultimate control over what your users can and should not have access to on their machines. Using some basic command line tools, you'll learn to modify settings that aren't necessarily available using Leopard's graphical user interface (GUI). This session will cover ARD's ability to push software out to network users as well as send Unix commands that give you ultimate control over how applications should behave. Want to prevent iTunes radio streaming to conserve bandwidth? Want to setup a new printer for 50 users at once with one command? This is the power of the plist and Apple Remote Desktop let's you modify plists on your users' machines simultaneously. Using ARD, you'll also learn how to restrict users from adding fonts to their own account and how to enable/disable specific System Preference settings and more resulting in more stable computers with better performance and less running around for you.
Macworld Expo
January 17, 2008, 1:15PM, Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, CA
So you're a power user and you've gone through lots of operating system upgrades over the years. But remember that time you upgraded and you lost your email settings? Or remember that time your Internet VPN blew up after installing the latest OS? Well, you may not have access to an IT department to handle the upgrade for you but do have three seasoned members of Apple's Consultants Network who handle hundreds of upgrades each year leading this session for you. They'll cover topics such as making sure you have a clean and complete backup before beginning, issues that might crop up with VPN software, well known commercial software and products to avoid or update when using Leopard. Although some quick fixes can be made using Terminal or Apple Remote Desktop, they will also focus on creating a clean base Leopard installation along with Apple's PackageMaker and other utilities to make installations of the OS and applications, quick, flexible and painless.
What's Your Preference? Control Leopard's User Settings and Manage Plists using Apple Remote Desktop.
Macworld Expo
January 18, 2008, 9:00 am, Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco
Leopard gives us even more control over the systems you manage as a computer administrator for your organization. Managing plists gives you ultimate control over what your users can and should not have access to on their machines. Using some basic command line tools, you'll learn to modify settings that aren't necessarily available using Leopard's graphical user interface (GUI). This session will cover ARD's ability to push software out to network users as well as send Unix commands that give you ultimate control over how applications should behave. Want to prevent iTunes radio streaming to conserve bandwidth? Want to setup a new printer for 50 users at once with one command? This is the power of the plist and Apple Remote Desktop let's you modify plists on your users' machines simultaneously. Using ARD, you'll also learn how to restrict users from adding fonts to their own account and how to enable/disable specific System Preference settings and more resulting in more stable computers with better performance and less running around for you.
