33 posts tagged with "Mac OSX"

Connecting OSX 10.9 to Active Directory domain is very easy. Follow the quick guide below:

1. Click on the Apple Menu
2. Click System Preferences
3. Select Users & Groups
4. Click Login Options
5. Click Join
6. Click Add and type in the name of the Active Directory domain
7. Enter in an Active Directory user credentials with domain rights to add workstations to the domain
8. Click Ok

Having access to an exchange mailbox on a Mac or iMac is very useful – especially if you are a designer in a prominent Windows domain environment – setup exchange email account on mac is incredibly easy on the client site – as long as the relevant ports have been opened up allowing you to connect from outside a Windows domain.

1. Open the Apple menu
2. Click System Preferences
3. Click Internet Accounts.
4. Click the Add (+) button.
5. Click Exchange in the list of services.
6. Enter the information.
7. Click Continue.
8. Enter a description for the account (for example, Work or Exchange).
9. In the Server Address field, enter the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) for the companies exchange server.
10. Click Continue.
11. Make sure the Contacts and Calendar checkboxes are selected to automatically set up those apps.
12. Click Done.

Note: To access an Exchange server from a Mac outside the organization’s network, confirm with the server administrator that port 443 is open on the firewall and Exchange Web Services (EWS) is enabled on the server.

Share files on a Mac with Windows can be extremely useful and luckily for us extremely easy to setup and manage.

1. Choose Apple menu
2. Select System Preferences, then click Sharing.
3. Select File Sharing, then click Options.
4. Select “Share files and folders using SMB (Windows)”
5. Select a user group or users you would like to share with and click Ok
6. Click Done.

Update caching on OSX server can be easily managed through the Server application.

It is recommended to turn on updating caching to allow osx clients to be able to draw Apple updates from the server without having to branch out onto the internet – decreasing broadband data usage and network traffic.

1. Navigate to: Applications
2. Open Server
3. Select Caching
4. Click On/Off to turn on the Software Update caching service

Deleting the Auto Complete entries in Google Chrome is very useful – especially if you are like me and wasn't paying attention and misspelt a username that would have forever been popping up in the login field.

1. Open Chrome
2. Navigate to the login webpage of the autocomplete details you would like to remove.
3. Start typing to bring up the name you want to remove
4. Using the Arrow keys navigate to select the entry you would like to remove
5. Press SHIFT+DELETE (if you are using OSX – you can press FN+SHIFT+DEL) keys at the same time to permanently remove these details from Google Chromes cache.

You have now stopped that autocomplete entry from forever reminding you of that misspell!