An attempt at Mac OS X administration in the enterprise
If you have a lot of macs in your environment then you might have wondered how much they are actually being utilized. This is especially interesting if you have thousands of macs in a corporate or educational environment. For example Continue reading How to tell how much your macs are actually being used in a large or enterprise environment.
#!/bin/bash # gets login name uname=$( ls -l /dev/console | awk ‘{ print $3 }’ ) # gets first name first=$( dscl . read /Users/$uname RealName | awk ‘{ print $2 }’ ) # gets last name Continue reading Get Currently Logged In Username From Active Directory Using Terminal – Mac OS X
When apple releases a new model of Mac that your organization decides to purchase and use, then you have to create a whole new netboot image to support the new hardware. If you don’t update your previous netboot sets then Continue reading Deploystudio Netboot Update
#!/bin/bash Version=$( sw_vers | grep ProductVersion | tail -c 7 ) if [[ "$Version" < 10.9 ]] then echo "$Version is less than 10.9" fi if [[ "$Version" > 10.8.5 ]] then echo "$Version is greater than Continue reading Mac OS X Version Check
#!/bin/bash InstalledPrinters=$( lpstat -a | cut -d " " -f 1 ) SelectPrinters=$( echo "$InstalledPrinters" | grep _ ) for P in ${InstalledPrinters} do lpadmin -p $P -o printer-is-shared=false done date=$( date "+%m/%d/%y" ) echo "Yes on Continue reading Disable printer sharing on mac OS X
This script is useful if you want to keep up with how synchronized your DeployStudio replicas are with the master server. Basically it reads the “/Library/Preferences/com.deploystudio.replica.plist” file to get the date it was last synchronized with the DeployStudio master server. Continue reading DeployStudio Date Last Synchronized With Master Server