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AutoDMG v1.214 Nov 2013: What a week. Friday started with the new Retina MacBooks arriving, the ones that can’t be downgraded to 10.8. We have a working solution for upgrading machines to Mavericks but we’re still not ready with the deployment workflow for 10.9 since we’ve been spending the last few weeks chasing PHD sync bugs with NetApp. In the middle of getting the 13A2093 and 13A3017 builds ready my Mac Pro decided to keel over and die. It... Read on →

AutoDMG v1.106 Nov 2013: AutoDMG version 1.1 has been released, with the following changes: Added support for InstallESD.dmg as source from Timothy Sutton. Better logging during package installs. Fix packages failing if they were in a folder with non-ascii characters in the name (thanks to Darkomen78). You can download 1.1 from the AutoDMG releases page. If you have any questions join us in ##osx-server (but please check the documentation and especially the FAQ first). If you report a bug,... Read on →

Accessing Kerberized Services with the Active Directory Computer Account05 Nov 2013: Back in May I posted an article on how to access kerberized services with the AD computer account. If the blog statistics are to be believed it’s a fairly popular post too. Well, it turns out that I’d basically just missed -k when I read the man page for kinit. I also managed to expose the machine’s password in the process of doing so, making it even more embarrassing. I updated the original article, but... Read on →

AutoDMG v1.001 Nov 2013: I’ve received some great feedback during the past few days, but since no major issues have been reported I’m feeling confident enough to release AutoDMG version 1.0. A big thank you goes out to everyone who helped with the testing. The changes for 1.0 include: Polished UI. Better logging. Fix list of updates being refreshed after profiles updated. Added warnings for deprecated installers. Confirm to quit when building. Added preferences for automatic updates. You can... Read on →

Create Recovery Partition Installer v1.130 Oct 2013: Timothy Sutton submitted a patch yesterday that brings 10.9 support to Create Recovery Partition Installer. Grab it on GitHub: https://github.com/MagerValp/Create-Recovery-Partition-Installer/releases Read on →