About 2 years ago, I decided that I was going to need to get back into the Macintosh World. I've blogged about it here a few times, and for the most part have had an incredibly easy time living with one foot in the Mac side, and the other on the Windows side. All in all, my previous MacBook Pro (1st Gen, 2.1ghz, 2 GB Ram) held up very well. In fact, it's probably the longest I've ever held on to a machine.
When Apple revved the line in February, I new my time for a replacement was coming. The major irritation for me was the lack of RAM, a relatively small HD (when you consider I run two OS's, 32 GIGs of music, etc).
I was considering just going back to the Windows world, and could have certainly gotten a good deal on some decent Windows laptops, but the fact that I held on to the 1st MacBook Pro for so long led me back to just replacing the MacBook Pro with another MacBook Pro.
This time, I got a 2.6 GHZ Core 2 Duo Processor, 2 GB Ram (already ordered the 4Gb upgrade for $94 vs Apples' $400 price), a 7200 RPM 200gb drive, Nvidia GeForce 8600m 512 video, etc. The biggest change for me is that I replaced the Glossy Screen I had with the Anti Glare screen. So far, the LED screen is way brighter, and the Anti Glare rocks!!!
So, what about my old baby? Well, my wife just got a great replacement for her 12" MacBook that she's been using for about 2 years.
The machine transfer wizard worked amazingly for BOTH machines. No hiccups (well, except for the fact that my Bootcamp partition didn't come across---not that I'd trust it if it had!)
Showing posts with label Macintosh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Macintosh. Show all posts
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Thursday, March 29, 2007
Importing the SSL Cert into the Mac Certificate Store
Put an intro here, but the steps for Ken (in the meantime) are:
After you export the OWA certificate and copy the certificate file to the Mac OS X computer, you can add the certificate as a trusted certificate using eithe rhte UNIX interface on the Mac or a third party utility, such as the freeware program CerttoolGUI 0.1. This utility is available at http://macupdate.com (just search for it).
Follow these steps to add the certificate using the CerttoolGUI 0.1:
1) Rename the certificate file to have a .der extension instead of .cer, and then copy the file to the root of the Macintosh HD.
2) Start the CerttoolGUI.
3) Click Add Certificate. The certificate appears in the CerttoolGUI certificate list.
4) Select the certificate, and then click Import Certificates. The certificate state appears as added.
5. Close the CertttoolGUI. Safari will no longer warn about the certificate.
After you export the OWA certificate and copy the certificate file to the Mac OS X computer, you can add the certificate as a trusted certificate using eithe rhte UNIX interface on the Mac or a third party utility, such as the freeware program CerttoolGUI 0.1. This utility is available at http://macupdate.com (just search for it).
Follow these steps to add the certificate using the CerttoolGUI 0.1:
1) Rename the certificate file to have a .der extension instead of .cer, and then copy the file to the root of the Macintosh HD.
2) Start the CerttoolGUI.
3) Click Add Certificate. The certificate appears in the CerttoolGUI certificate list.
4) Select the certificate, and then click Import Certificates. The certificate state appears as added.
5. Close the CertttoolGUI. Safari will no longer warn about the certificate.
Friday, August 18, 2006
Shared Calendar Entries in Outlook Web Access (OWA)
I know that when your remote, sometimes the OWA tool doesn’t do all the stuff that Outlook does. I have been asked this before, and it’s a neat tip that I thought I’d share....
If you need to look at Someone elses’ shared calendar, just type this into your browser (or bookmark it)...
daily calendar view:
https://servername/exchange/displayname/calendar/?cmd=contents&view=daily
weekly calendar view:
https://servername/exchange/displayname/calendar/?cmd=contents&view=weekly
monthly calendar view:
https://servername/exchange/displayname/calendar/?cmd=contents&view=monthly
Specific date:
https://servername/exchange/displayname/calendar/?cmd=contents&view=daily&d=3&m=5&y=2002
I've used this in the past when offsite to see if I needed to schedule time with one of my team for a customer or prospect...
If you need to look at Someone elses’ shared calendar, just type this into your browser (or bookmark it)...
daily calendar view:
https://servername/exchange/displayname/calendar/?cmd=contents&view=daily
weekly calendar view:
https://servername/exchange/displayname/calendar/?cmd=contents&view=weekly
monthly calendar view:
https://servername/exchange/displayname/calendar/?cmd=contents&view=monthly
Specific date:
https://servername/exchange/displayname/calendar/?cmd=contents&view=daily&d=3&m=5&y=2002
I've used this in the past when offsite to see if I needed to schedule time with one of my team for a customer or prospect...
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Utilizing Entourage with the SBS Server 2003 Exchange Server
Ok, I thought for sure I had posted these settings some time ago, but must be losing my mind. I'm pretty sure it's related to the 4 year old.
1. Open the Accounts Window (Tools, Accounts) in Entourage
2. Select the Exchange tab and click new
3. In the basic user information field, click the Configure Account Manually button.
4. In the Account Settings tab, fill in the Account Name, Account ID, Password, Exchange Server, Name, and Email Address fields with the appropriate information.
5. Click on the Mail tab and enter the name of the SBS Server in the SMTP Server field.
6. Click on the Directory tab and enter the name of the SBS Server in the LDAP server field.
7. Click on the Advanced tab and enter servername/public in the Free/Busy Server field, where [Servername] is the name of the SBS Server. (this isn't really going to work, but oh well).
8. Click OK to close the Accounts Window
9. I had to restart the Entourage application
All the information should be downloaded at this point from the Exchange Server. I also have Parallels running, and the windows vm has outlook connecting to the Exchange server as well. This allows me to get to the Microsoft CRM Apps we use.
Have you setup a VPN to your server. Let me see if I can't post an entry about that as well. Again, my brain thought I had posted it until I looked and couldn't find it. It's either the kids or the wine, I don't know which....
1. Open the Accounts Window (Tools, Accounts) in Entourage
2. Select the Exchange tab and click new
3. In the basic user information field, click the Configure Account Manually button.
4. In the Account Settings tab, fill in the Account Name, Account ID, Password, Exchange Server, Name, and Email Address fields with the appropriate information.
5. Click on the Mail tab and enter the name of the SBS Server in the SMTP Server field.
6. Click on the Directory tab and enter the name of the SBS Server in the LDAP server field.
7. Click on the Advanced tab and enter servername/public in the Free/Busy Server field, where [Servername] is the name of the SBS Server. (this isn't really going to work, but oh well).
8. Click OK to close the Accounts Window
9. I had to restart the Entourage application
All the information should be downloaded at this point from the Exchange Server. I also have Parallels running, and the windows vm has outlook connecting to the Exchange server as well. This allows me to get to the Microsoft CRM Apps we use.
Have you setup a VPN to your server. Let me see if I can't post an entry about that as well. Again, my brain thought I had posted it until I looked and couldn't find it. It's either the kids or the wine, I don't know which....
Sunday, July 02, 2006
Moving Explorer Favorites to the Macintosh
One quick way to move your Favorites, or browser bookmarks, to a new computer is to start Internet Explorer, go to the File menu and select "Import and Export." When the Import/Export wizard starts up, choose "Export Favorites" from the list of actions and click on the Next button.
Once you select your Favorites file, you can export it to the desktop or a folder on your PC. From there, you can copy the exported Favorites file onto an external drive or recordable compact disc, copy it to your new Mac over a network connection or send the file to yourself as an e-mail attachment from the old computer to the new one.
Once you get the file on your Mac, you can add the Favorites to the Mac OS X Safari Web browser. Start the Safari program, go to the File menu and choose Import Bookmarks. Navigate to the folder or place on the Mac where you have stored your exported Favorites file and click on the Import button to pull in the bookmarks.
A section of Apple's Web site (http://www.apple.com/macosx/switch) is devoted to moving all kinds of files to a Macintosh.
Once you select your Favorites file, you can export it to the desktop or a folder on your PC. From there, you can copy the exported Favorites file onto an external drive or recordable compact disc, copy it to your new Mac over a network connection or send the file to yourself as an e-mail attachment from the old computer to the new one.
Once you get the file on your Mac, you can add the Favorites to the Mac OS X Safari Web browser. Start the Safari program, go to the File menu and choose Import Bookmarks. Navigate to the folder or place on the Mac where you have stored your exported Favorites file and click on the Import button to pull in the bookmarks.
A section of Apple's Web site (http://www.apple.com/macosx/switch) is devoted to moving all kinds of files to a Macintosh.
Saturday, July 01, 2006
Decision between Parallels and Bootcamp
I thought through this quite a bit, and ended up putting a 40gb partition for parallels...The decision came down to the fact that I have a significant number of clients running windows small business server 2003. I really don't want to have to take the time to re-boot every time I need something off the mac or off windows.
So far, the only thing I haven't been able to get recognized in the windows vm is the active sync for my windows treo 700.
The networking to my sbs server went extremely well. When I tried servername\connectcomputer, everything worked great. My document redirection worked like a charm as well. I did bump up the memory to 1gb... I think 256mg wouldn't have been enough.
Also, hitting Microsoft CRM on port 5555 worked fine also. I'll easily be able to demo my CRM and SBS server in full screen mode on my Mac!
So far, the only thing I haven't been able to get recognized in the windows vm is the active sync for my windows treo 700.
The networking to my sbs server went extremely well. When I tried servername\connectcomputer, everything worked great. My document redirection worked like a charm as well. I did bump up the memory to 1gb... I think 256mg wouldn't have been enough.
Also, hitting Microsoft CRM on port 5555 worked fine also. I'll easily be able to demo my CRM and SBS server in full screen mode on my Mac!
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
New Macbook Pro Arrived
Ok, my new MacBook Pro arrived, 2.16ghz, 2gb ram, 120gb HD, and primed to run windows xp. The decision I finally went with was to use the Parallels tool instead of Bootcamp. I had to think about this because I want to make sure that I can run Microsoft CRM from my xp partition. I'd almost rather go with Bootcamp, because then I'm native on the mac when running windows, but with parallel's tool, I can switch back and forth pretty quickly...I ended up installing a 40 gb parallel partition, put windows xp sp2 on it. I had no problem joining it to the sbs network for my company either... Now on to the rest of the programs.
It's actually killing me that I have tons of customer work to do. I _really_ want to play with the new MacBook Pro and test the xp installations' speed.
It's actually killing me that I have tons of customer work to do. I _really_ want to play with the new MacBook Pro and test the xp installations' speed.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Getting my Macintosh Powerbook working with Small Business Server 2003
This hasn't been nearly as hard a project as I thought. I have a few customers now that have Mac's in their environment, and I bought my 6 year old daughter a Mac for her birthday. Sooo, I found one customer that bought an extra Powerbook (the small one), so we decided to trade it for my time to setup a new SBS 2003 installation.
It's been years (1996?) since I switched from using the mac to focusing on windows based machines.
The first thing I noticed was how wierd it was to get used to the Apple key for shortcuts instead of the ctrl key. The next thing was just some of the settings I needed to make to SBS 2003 to get the services running on the server. Here goes...
First, I'm using SBS 2003 with sp1, and exchange is patched to sp2. The Mac is version 10.4.5
So, Here are the major steps (I'm not going into much detail on the 'why' here. If you have questions, post them and I'll be more than happy to answer them):
For the Windows Machine1) Setup File Services for Macintosh on SBS 2) Configure the File Server 3) Create Shares
For the Macintosh 1) Enable Appletalk 2) Configure Directory Access 3) Connect to the Server
Sooo... Windows Setup
1) Setup File Services for Macintosh on SBS
a) Open Add or Remove Programs on Control Panel
b) Click Add/Remove Windows Components
c) Select Other Network File and Print Services and click details
d) Enable File Services for Macintosh
e) Click OK
f) Click Next
g) Wait for the components to install, and click Finish
h) Close the Windows installer and the Add or Remove Programs Control Panel
2) Configure File Server for Macintosh - We have to configure the server so that the mac clients can see the server and access the share volume. Since the services for Macintosh is configured only to allow connections from the Macintosh clients that have the Microsoft User Authentication Module (UAM) installed. I didn't use this. I was more concerned with getting this to work than the underlying security (that being said, now that it works I need to go back and get more serious in this area). Follow these steps to get the clear text auth method and the server name that the Macs will see:
a) Right-click on My Computer (server) and select manage
b) Right-click on Shared Folders and select Configure File Server for Macintosh
c) Change Enable Authentication to Apple Clear Text or Microsoft (you know what I picked)
d) Click apply and then click OK
e) Make note of the server name listed in the Server Name for AppleTalk Workstations field. You'll need this later.
3) Create the Server Shares - Your current shares won't be seen by the mac. You need to create new shares that specifically work with the mac. All new shares can work with both. I've got a separate checklist I use when setting up new SBS Servers that may at some point use macs. I'll blog this in a separate entry.
a) Right Click on My Computer and select Manage
b) Expand the Shared Folders Icon
c) Right-click on Shares and select New Share
d) Click Next
e) Enter the path to the folder on the HD or click Browse to select the Folder
f) Click Next
g) If the folder selected is already shared to your Windows clients, uncheck the Microsoft Windows Users check box.
h) Enable the Apple Macintosh Users check box and enter a name for the share in the Share Name field
i) Click Next
j) Click Finish
k) Click Close
l) Right Click on the new share and select properties
m) Uncheck the This Volume is Read-Only check box and click OK
n) Close the properties window
Now, on the Mac side....
1) Enabling Appletalk is done in the System Preferences...
a) Go to the Apple menu, and Select System Preferences (I'll insert a screen shot here sometime when I'm not doing anything important...you know, between 2am and 3am)...
b) Click the Network Icon
c) Select the Built-in Ethernet and click Configure
d) Click the Appletalk Tab and enable the Make AppleTalk Active checkbox
e) Click Apply Now and close the system preferences
2) Directory Access Changes -
a) Open the Directory Access application by selecting Macintosh HD, Applications, Utilities, Directory Access.
b) Click the lock to make changes.
3) Connect to the Server - Mounting the volume... There are two ways for you to do this, but I've documented how I do it...
a) For the first way, you'll hit Command (dear lord, that's the apple key) K (apple key plus the 'k' key).
b) At this point, you'll enter afp://servername, where servername is the Appletak name of the server listed in the File Server for Macintosh properties. ( I told you you'd need it later).
c) Click Connect
d) Enter the username and password to connect to the server
e) Select the volumes you want to mount and click OK. The volumes will mount on the desktop.
I'll post more... I've got the mac accessing the Exchange Server, I have a VPN into the SBS Server, and am able to use Remote Desktop for the Mac to manage the Server... Something else, but I forget...
It's been years (1996?) since I switched from using the mac to focusing on windows based machines.
The first thing I noticed was how wierd it was to get used to the Apple key for shortcuts instead of the ctrl key. The next thing was just some of the settings I needed to make to SBS 2003 to get the services running on the server. Here goes...
First, I'm using SBS 2003 with sp1, and exchange is patched to sp2. The Mac is version 10.4.5
So, Here are the major steps (I'm not going into much detail on the 'why' here. If you have questions, post them and I'll be more than happy to answer them):
For the Windows Machine1) Setup File Services for Macintosh on SBS 2) Configure the File Server 3) Create Shares
For the Macintosh 1) Enable Appletalk 2) Configure Directory Access 3) Connect to the Server
Sooo... Windows Setup
1) Setup File Services for Macintosh on SBS
a) Open Add or Remove Programs on Control Panel
b) Click Add/Remove Windows Components
c) Select Other Network File and Print Services and click details
d) Enable File Services for Macintosh
e) Click OK
f) Click Next
g) Wait for the components to install, and click Finish
h) Close the Windows installer and the Add or Remove Programs Control Panel
2) Configure File Server for Macintosh - We have to configure the server so that the mac clients can see the server and access the share volume. Since the services for Macintosh is configured only to allow connections from the Macintosh clients that have the Microsoft User Authentication Module (UAM) installed. I didn't use this. I was more concerned with getting this to work than the underlying security (that being said, now that it works I need to go back and get more serious in this area). Follow these steps to get the clear text auth method and the server name that the Macs will see:
a) Right-click on My Computer (server) and select manage
b) Right-click on Shared Folders and select Configure File Server for Macintosh
c) Change Enable Authentication to Apple Clear Text or Microsoft (you know what I picked)
d) Click apply and then click OK
e) Make note of the server name listed in the Server Name for AppleTalk Workstations field. You'll need this later.
3) Create the Server Shares - Your current shares won't be seen by the mac. You need to create new shares that specifically work with the mac. All new shares can work with both. I've got a separate checklist I use when setting up new SBS Servers that may at some point use macs. I'll blog this in a separate entry.
a) Right Click on My Computer and select Manage
b) Expand the Shared Folders Icon
c) Right-click on Shares and select New Share
d) Click Next
e) Enter the path to the folder on the HD or click Browse to select the Folder
f) Click Next
g) If the folder selected is already shared to your Windows clients, uncheck the Microsoft Windows Users check box.
h) Enable the Apple Macintosh Users check box and enter a name for the share in the Share Name field
i) Click Next
j) Click Finish
k) Click Close
l) Right Click on the new share and select properties
m) Uncheck the This Volume is Read-Only check box and click OK
n) Close the properties window
Now, on the Mac side....
1) Enabling Appletalk is done in the System Preferences...
a) Go to the Apple menu, and Select System Preferences (I'll insert a screen shot here sometime when I'm not doing anything important...you know, between 2am and 3am)...
b) Click the Network Icon
c) Select the Built-in Ethernet and click Configure
d) Click the Appletalk Tab and enable the Make AppleTalk Active checkbox
e) Click Apply Now and close the system preferences
2) Directory Access Changes -
a) Open the Directory Access application by selecting Macintosh HD, Applications, Utilities, Directory Access.
b) Click the lock to make changes.
3) Connect to the Server - Mounting the volume... There are two ways for you to do this, but I've documented how I do it...
a) For the first way, you'll hit Command (dear lord, that's the apple key) K (apple key plus the 'k' key).
b) At this point, you'll enter afp://servername, where servername is the Appletak name of the server listed in the File Server for Macintosh properties. ( I told you you'd need it later).
c) Click Connect
d) Enter the username and password to connect to the server
e) Select the volumes you want to mount and click OK. The volumes will mount on the desktop.
I'll post more... I've got the mac accessing the Exchange Server, I have a VPN into the SBS Server, and am able to use Remote Desktop for the Mac to manage the Server... Something else, but I forget...
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