Into The Ground Mac OS
Into The Ground Mac OS
Written by Mårten Björk •
This guide will help you become familiar with Mac OS X — the operating system of every Mac. In just a few, short steps, this article will teach you everything you need to know to get started with your Mac.
The package you are about to download is authentic and was not repacked or modified in any way by us. The license type of the downloaded software for Mac OS X is trialware. This license type may impose certain restrictions on functionality or only provide an evaluation period. The download version of Dig The Ground for Mac is 1.0. If its floating via a 2 prong power cord then there would have to be another ground path from something external connected to your mac. Your monitor also plugs into the MiniMac and if it has a grounded power cord it would be in common with the MiniMac via the video cable.
- It is important to remember Mac OS X runs atop UNIX. So all of these technologies install easily on Mac OS X. Furthermore, Apache and PHP are included by default. In the end, you only install MySQL then simply turn everything on. First, open Terminal and switch to root to avoid permission issues while running these commands.
- To begin with, click on the Apple Icon Menu on the top left of your screen and select the System Preferences submenu. You will be taken to your System Preferences screen where you can adjust various options of your Mac OS. Select the Internet Accounts link to proceed.
Mac OS X — The Basics
Mac OS X is the operating system of your Mac. It’s the basic system that enables your Mac to work. All the files, folders and programs are handled by Mac OS X as well as internet connectivity, battery consumption and more.
As a Mac user, you will encounter Mac OS X in many different forms:
- When viewing the desktop
- When you’re browsing through files
- Through the Mac’s search function (called “Spotlight”)
- Through the application bar (called “The Dock”)
- As the system that runs your applications
…and much more. Mac OS X is always there in the background, making sure your Mac runs smoothly. By learning more about Mac OS X, you will become a more efficient and confident Mac user. Let’s get started!
Mac OS X — An Overview
The home of your Mac is the desktop. Think of it as a physical desktop – a place where you may temporarily spread out your work while performing a task.
For example, you may put an image from the internet on the desktop, make some modifications, and then drag it into an email. Just remember, while the desktop is a great workspace it not a good place to store files long-term since it quickly gets messy — again, just like an actual desktop.
Let’s have a look at the other things you see in when you first turn on your Mac.
The Dock
In the bottom of your screen, you should see “the Dock” — a bar with convenient shortcuts to your favorite applications. If you don’t see it by default, try moving your cursor to the bottom of the screen and it should pop right up.
The icons in the Dock are just shortcuts. You can add or remove icons from the Dock without affecting the actual applications.
To add an application shortcut to the dock, you can use Launchpad, which is a complete overview of all your applications. You can probably find Launchpad in the left part of your Dock. Click Launchpad to view all your applications, then drag any icon into the dock to create a new shortcut.
Another way to add shortcuts to the Dock is to find the Application file (in the Applications folder) and drag it to the Dock. This requires some familiarity with browsing through files.
To remove an item from the dock, just drag it out and hold it over the desktop. After a second or so, a “remove” label shows up. Release the icon and the application shortcut is removed from the Dock.
Menus
At the top of the screen you will see some menus. These menus change depending on what application you are using at the moment.
If there is ever anything you want to do in a certain application, try to find it in these menus.
Menu extras
Look at the top of your screen. To the right of the menus you are most likely to see a few symbols.
These little icons are mostly used to quickly edit your Mac’s settings. Rather than having to open System Preferences, you can change the settings using Menu extras.
To change what Menu extras are visible, open System preferences. Click a preference pane and look for the checkbox that lets you choose if you want the specific Menu extra to be visible or not.
Users
Mac OS X offers a really nice way to switch between the different user accounts on the Mac. Near the upper right corner of your screen you will find your name. Click it and a list of all the users on the computer will appear.
Now, just click another user in order to log in to his/hers account (password may of course be required).
Spotlight
If you look at the upper right corner of your screen, you will see a small magnifying glass. This is Mac OS X’s search function. It is called Spotlight. To read more about it, click here.
Dashboard
Mac OS X has a great thing called Dashboard where you can run mini-applications called widgets. Read the article about it, Dashboard is awesome.
If you are unfortunate enough to be in a position where you are required to use SCCM 2012 R2 to manage your fleet of Mac OS X devices. Then you may already be aware that the process to enroll these devices on mass is not easily automated. Unlike other management products like Casper suite, where we have a QuickAdd.pkg which we can install on the client at firstboot or through ARD or any other number of methods that require no user intervention, SCCM is a little bit different. The installer package that is provided installs the client, but it doesn’t install any of the tools required to automate the enrollment via a script for example. Previously with SCCM 2012 SP1 it had been possible to automate the enrollment process by passing the username and password on the command line to the cmenroll binary (albeit in clear text)
Now it seems that MS would rather rely on the user to enter in their AD credentials in the new ConfigMgr GUI window in order to enroll. This is obviously a problem if you have a lab of Mac’s or wish to enroll a number of machines at imaging time using DeployStudio/Casper etc etc. So in this post I will show you how I was able to create a metapackage that contains all the required files and a postflight script which can automatically enroll the device using an AD service account.
From here I will assume that you already have the macclient.dmg which should look like this:
First we need to create a package that contains our Client Tools. If you have created packages before this should be a relatively straight forward process. I used Composer and ended up with something looking like this:
We now need to create an enrollment script, or two.
I have two scripts – these are on my github check there for current versions
The first script (sccm_enrollment.sh) defines our environment variables such as server address and then passes them as arguments to our second script (expect_enrollment.sh)
sccm_enrollment.sh
The second script takes these arguments and then uses the expect shell to interactively respond to the password promopt
expect_enrollment.sh
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So now we have these scripts we will need to package them up. So create another package.
So now we have should have 3 packages, our CMClient.pkg from MS and our two custom packages.
I use Packages from WhiteBox to create a Distribution package that contains all of our packages and a post flight.
So create a new Distribution Package, give it a name a location and create the project
Now ensure that you put in unique identifier and give it a useful version number. Also note that the CMClient.pkg requires a restart, so we will also require a restart here.
We can skip the Payload and move across to Scripts
Drag in the 3 packages to Additional Resources
Create a postflight script that installs our packages and then runs our enrollment script.
Mine is available on my github and it looks like this
set this as your post-installation script.
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Now build the package (Build menu -> Build)
You should now have a package that you can deploy using pretty much any method that will install and enroll SCCM with out any user intervention and while the machine is unattended (Loginwindow)
Into The Ground Mac OS