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<title>macosxhints.com OS X Server tips</title>
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<description>Tips and tricks for working with OS X Server, from macosxhints.com</description>
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<title>Placeholder info for AppleTV in Profile Manager</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20140522171055506</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2014 07:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>OS X Server</dc:subject>
<description>While importing a placeholder for some iPads into Profile Manager I was peeking through &lt;i&gt;profilemanager.log&lt;/i&gt;, when I found this gem.&lt;div style=&quot;margin-left: 20px; margin-top:10px; margin-bottom:10px; padding: 5px; border:1px solid; width:520px; height:60px; overflow:scroll;white-space:nowrap;resize:both&quot;&gt;&lt;pre&gt;[351] [2014/05/22 16:17:21.942] I: Imported placeholder device &quot;MH-Gary Ho_iPad Mini45&quot;, SerialNumber=F7NMXXXXXX84, IMEI=, MEID=, UDID=, DeviceID=, AirplayPassword=&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;What I did next was add a new column &lt;i&gt;AirplayPassword=&lt;/i&gt; to the placeholder CSV file and put a password in. I then uploaded the placeholder for an AppleTV and it added the Airplay password to my AppleTV Device in ProfileManager.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Just yesterday I added 20 AppleTVs to Profile Manager, I could have saved a few steps with this hint.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; If you don't know about Apple Profile Manager for OS X Server  ...</description>
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<title>10.9: Convert gitolite managed git repositories to Xcode Server</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20140515080411279</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2014 07:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>OS X Server</dc:subject>
<description>So you finally want to take the plunge and convert from gitolite managed repositories and &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/jenkinsci/git-plugin&quot;&gt;Jenkins&lt;/a&gt; to doing everything with Mavericks' Xcode Server? It turns out it's actually not that hard.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Disclaimer: I just figured this process out, everything appears to work (pulling the repository, committing/pushing back to the repository after making changes. I think that everything should be working properly outside of my very basic tests, but they were very limited.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Converting gitolite repositories for Xcode server.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;ul&gt;	&lt;li&gt;Find your repositories folder (for me i had a special 'git' user so the repositories folder was in &lt;i&gt;/Users/git/repositories&lt;/i&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;	&lt;li&gt;Create a tarred gzip file (as admin with following settings) to create carbon copies of the directories preserving ownership and permissions:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;code&gt;sudo tar cpz -P --exclude .DS_Store -f repositories.tgz /Users/git/repositories&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt; ...&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
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<title>Use AppleScript and Remote Desktop to set a non-default NetBoot startup disk</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20131008145925998</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2013 07:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>OS X Server</dc:subject>
<description>The following AppleScript will use Remote Desktop to set a non-default NetBoot image as the startup disk. Make sure to insert your server's IP Address and the image name...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;background-white: padding: 10px border: 1px solid gainsboro; width: 650px; overflow:auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;tell application &quot;Remote Desktop&quot;	set theServer to &quot;192.168.1.8&quot;	set theImage to &quot;10.8.5 NetBoot&quot;	set theComputers to the selection	set theTask to make new set network startup disk task with properties {from server:theServer, mount volume:theImage, restarting:true}	execute theTask on theComputersend tell&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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<title>Configure OS X Server's caching server </title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2013020523045182</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 07:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>OS X Server</dc:subject>
<description>A new feature in the latest update to OS X Server is a caching server. This is designed to cache files in setups with multiple users so files only need to be downloaded once from the internet (or from the Mac App Store, iTunes Store, etc.). Files are cached locally, so users can save time getting downloads.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Apple has published a &lt;a href=&quot;http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5590&quot;&gt;technical note&lt;/a&gt; explaining how to configure the caching server. You can set a limit to the amount of disk space used for the cache, you can choose a location for the cache, set the number of concurrent clients accessing it and much more. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; This looks like a valuable feature for any organization running OS X Server. 
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<title>Set message size limits for OS X Server mail server </title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20130118021337177</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>OS X Server</dc:subject>
<description>Apple has published a &lt;a href=&quot;http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5627&quot;&gt;technical document&lt;/a&gt; explaining how to set message size limits for the mail server in OS X Server. By default, messages are limited to 10 MB, but you can change this from the command line using the &lt;tt&gt;serveradmin&lt;/tt&gt; command:&lt;pre&gt;sudo serveradmin settings mail:postfix:message_size_limit = &lt;i&gt;number&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;   See Apple's technical document for more information, and how to specify the &lt;tt&gt;number&lt;/tt&gt; in the command above.
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<title>Enable AFP Server Activity log on OS X Server </title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>OS X Server</dc:subject>
<description>Apple has published a &lt;a href=&quot;http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5541&quot;&gt;technical note&lt;/a&gt; explaining how to enable the AFP Server Activity log on OS X Server; this log is not enabled by default. &lt;Br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Run the following command to enable this log:&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;sudo serveradmin settings afp:activityLog=yes&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;   To disable the log, run this command:&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;sudo serveradmin settings afp:activityLog=no&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; 
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<title>Enable the adaptive firewall in OS X Server</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20121011004626997</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>OS X Server</dc:subject>
<description>Apple recently published a &lt;a href=&quot;http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5519&quot;&gt;technical note&lt;/a&gt; explaining how to enable the adaptive firewall in OS X Server. This is a type of firewall that automatically creates temporary rules according to certain events. For example, a number of failed login attempts will cause the adaptive firewall to create a temporary rule to block the IP address attempting to log in.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To do this, run the following commands as an administrative user:  &lt;div style=&quot;margin-left: 20px; margin-top:10px; margin-bottom:10px; padding: 5px; border:1px solid; width:700px; height:80px; overflow:scroll;white-space:nowrap;resize:both&quot;&gt;&lt;pre&gt;sudo pfctl -f /etc/pf.confsudo /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/sbin/serverctl enable service=com.apple.afctlsudo /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/afctl -f&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt; Then, edit /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.pfctl.plist using the following commands: ...</description>
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<title>How to repair an Xsan file system</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20121001034551331</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>OS X Server</dc:subject>
<description>Apple has published a &lt;a href=&quot;http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1081&quot;&gt;technical note&lt;/a&gt; explaining how to repair an Xsan file system. They explain that one uses the following commands to do this:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;tt&gt;sudo cvfsck -j VolumeName&lt;br&gt;sudo cvfsck -nv VolumeName&lt;/tt&gt;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Note that this is different from the standard &lt;tt&gt;fsck&lt;/tt&gt; command used with a regular file system. See the Apple document for more information on using this command. 
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<title>Allow custom URL protocols in Lion Server wiki pages</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120509012704673</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>OS X Server</dc:subject>
<description>If you use Lion Server, and its wiki server, you may find it useful to use custom URL protocols for internal documents and links. Apple has published a &lt;a href=&quot;http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5257&quot;&gt;technical note&lt;/a&gt; explaining how to do this. This document explains how to create the necessary configuration file - &lt;tt&gt;/etc/collabd/filter_whitelist.plist&lt;/tt&gt; -  for any custom URL protocol you wish to use. 
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<title>Replace SMB Server with open source version in Mac OS X Lion Server</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120401160655922</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>OS X Server</dc:subject>
<description>I have had nothing but trouble with SMB (Windows Sharing) services in Mac OS X Server 10.7. These problems were supposedly solved in 10.7.3, but my particular issues seem to still be there in several cases (Windows XP name browsing not working, Guest access not working, performance issues, dropped connections), and may be related to the Windows XP (versus Windows Vista/7) clients I'm dealing with. All of these were working fine with Mac OS X Server 10.5.8 when a string of hardware failures required replacement with the current version, which is working well for the Mac OS X clients.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; I have found that replacing the Apple supplied services with the open source Samba version (dropped by Apple in Mac OS X Lion for apparent licensing issues) has solved these problems, and provided faster performance. Unfortunately setup isn't well documented, takes a while, and has no GUI tool (SharePoints I miss you!). &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; In hopes that I can give someone a head start for doing this if ...</description>
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<title>Redirect mail button on Wiki pages</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120216094255785</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>OS X Server</dc:subject>
<description>I have seen on the Apple discussion forum that there is no solution for the mentioned redirection. Today I have found a solution which was plain simple as all things Apple. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Every time you click on the mail link in Wiki Server it will take you to SquirrelMail login screen. This screen is the &lt;em&gt;login.php&lt;/em&gt; file.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So in order to redirect Wiki Mail to any URL of your choice you just need to edit or substitute the &lt;em&gt;login.php&lt;/em&gt; file which is located in &lt;em&gt;/usr/share/squirrelmail/&lt;/em&gt; like this:&lt;div style=&quot;margin-left: 20px; margin-top:10px; margin-bottom:10px; padding: 5px; border:1px solid; width:520px; height:120px; overflow:scroll;white-space:nowrap;resize:both&quot;&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&amp;lt;?php/* Redirect browser */header(&quot;Location: http://your_preffered_url/&quot;);exit;?&amp;gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; I haven't tested this one, but it seems pretty straightforward. As always when editing system-related files, have a known good backup.]
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<title>10.7: Updating Lion Server if using CalDAV and CardDAV</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120204035901957</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>OS X Server</dc:subject>
<description>If you plan to update your OS X Server to 10.7.2 be sure to &lt;em&gt;restart your machine&lt;/em&gt; and stop all server services, especially iCal Server and Address book server before applying the update.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It happened to me yesterday that I applied the OS X 10.7.2 update to my Mac mini server without closing any apps. I just ran it. After the update it turned out, this was a big mistake. All calendar entries of the past three weeks and many contacts were lost. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I was not able to recover anything from time machine. Lion server keeps the CalDAV and CardDAV data in a PostgreSQL database which is apparently not backed up by TimeMachine. Also, the PostgreSQL uses transactions which need to be 'closed' before they end up being permanently written into the DB tables. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;What I found from reviewing the postgres log file (&lt;em&gt;/Library/Logs/PostgreSQL.log&lt;/em&gt;) is that the 10.7.2 server update will apply a whole bunch of database structure updates to PostgreSQL but &lt;em&gt;without ...&lt;/em&gt;</description>
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<title>Cannot boot to NetRestore Image</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>OS X Server</dc:subject>
<description>I ran into a problem recently where I was unable to boot into any of the images I had made from any Mac. I have NetRestore and one NetBoot image, but not one of my Macs could get to it. After many failed attempts, I finally tricked it into letting me boot. Here's how.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The problem actually has to do with the way that NetBoot filters computers. It used to be that you could turn filtering on and off, but now, it is not so simple. In the Image Properties window, you have the option to either all model types, or just the ones selected from a given list.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;However, MAC filtering is different, you can't simply say allow all. The default selection is to allow only only those computers with the matching MAC addresses in the list below and deny others. This is what is preventing computers from being able to boot. And unless you are interested in manually entering in every new MAC address, it is impractical.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The second option is to deny only those computers in the lis ...</description>
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<title>10.7: Virtual Hosts and multiple web servers</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>OS X Server</dc:subject>
<description>After a great deal of searching the net for answers I have pieced together what is needed to do a couple of things I have wanted to do for some time now. The first is to have virtual hosts working nicely on 10.7 Lion Server. The second and related item is to have multiple web servers within a LAN accessible from one WAN address.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Virtual Hosts&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To get this working add the following line to the &lt;em&gt;/etc/apache2/httpd.conf&lt;/em&gt; file and then restart the web service.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;tt&gt;NameVirtualHost *:80&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Restarting the web service can be done in the Terminal using:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;tt&gt;sudo serveradmin stop web&lt;br&gt;sudo serveradmin start web&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Now you can add virtual hosts through the Server app.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Multiple web servers within a LAN accessed from one WAN address.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Set up: The following assumes that you have 3 servers with correctly working DNS and apache services. The 10.10.10.x subnet is used for the examples, change them to w ...</description>
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<title>10.7: Setting the default timezone for calendars viewed on Wiki Server</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110901172926867</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>OS X Server</dc:subject>
<description>Apple does not seem to have provided a setting to change the default timezone despite the obvious need to be able to do so. This hint is a workaround giving a way of changing the timezone for all users who view the calendar via the web interface.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;First backup the following file:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;/usr/share/collabd/coreclient/app/views/projects/calendar.html.erb&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You will need root privileges to edit the file; this can be accomplished by:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;tt&gt;sudo nano /usr/share/collabd/coreclient/app/views/projects/calendar.html.erb&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Add the following line to the original file below the line &lt;tt&gt;&amp;lt;% content_for(:head) do %&amp;gt;&lt;/tt&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&amp;lt;meta name=&quot;tzid&quot; content=&quot;Europe/London&quot;&amp;gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Where &quot;Europe/London&quot; is replaced by the desired timezone.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The file should now read (in its entirety) ...</description>
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<title>10.6 Server: Workaround for recurring CalDAV password dialogs on iOS devices</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110524024036889</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>OS X Server</dc:subject>
<description>Follow these steps to work around an issue that causes recurring password dialogs on iOS devices that are configured to connect to a CalDAV account hosted by Mac OS X Server 10.6.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The procedure involves turning off Digest authentication and enabling Basic authentication. Since all passwords will be sent in the clear, make sure that all traffic to the iCal server is encrypted. This can be done either by requiring users to connect via VPN or by using a valid SSL certificate and setting SSL to 'Redirect' in the iCal Service settings in Server Admin. &lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;    Log in to an administrative user's account on the server and open the Terminal application located in &lt;em&gt;/Applications/Utilities/&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;    Type the following command to change to the directory containing the settings for the iCal service:&lt;br&gt;    &lt;tt&gt;cd /private/etc/caldavd&lt;/tt&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;    Make a copy of the preference file. You will be asked for the administrative user's password after en ...&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
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<title>Change iCal Server invitations so they will clear spam assassin</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110328134806331</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>OS X Server</dc:subject>
<description>The default invitations which iCal Server sends may be seen as spam by Spam Assassin (score of 5.8 or so), because of a large picture attachment.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The workaround for this I found was to modify the template for the invitation to eliminate the attachment.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The templates for iCal Server invitations are located in: &lt;em&gt;/usr/share/caldavd/share/email_templates&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I changed mine so they are straightforward but at least not seen as spam. For example, my invite.html is:&lt;div style=&quot;margin-left: 20px; margin-top:10px; margin-bottom:10px; padding: 5px; border:1px solid; width:520px; height:120px; overflow:scroll;white-space:nowrap;resize:both&quot;&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&amp;lt;html&amp;gt;&amp;lt;head&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/head&amp;gt;&amp;lt;body&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Event: %(summary)s&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Organizer: %(htmlOrganizer)s&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Location: %(location)s&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Date: %(dateInfo)s %(recurrenceInfo)s&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Time: %(timeInfo)s %(durationInfo)s&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Description: %(desc ...&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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<title>Make event emails sent from 10.6  iCal Server come from actual user</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>In Server Admin, the iCal settings allow you to specify a single email from which event invitations will come. For a personal calendar though, you really want the email to come from your own email.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The script which sends invitations is found at:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twistedcaldav/mail.py&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It appears that it tries to find the appropriate email address, but I could not figure out how to make a value ever be present where it was looking.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So, I modified the script as shown below.
Change: &lt;div style=&quot;margin-left: 20px; margin-top:10px; margin-bottom:10px; padding: 5px; border:1px solid; width:520px; height:120px; overflow:scroll;white-space:nowrap;resize:both&quot;&gt;&lt;pre&gt; if organizer.startswith(&quot;mailto:&quot;):  orgEmail = fromAddr = organizer[7:] else:  fromAddr = serverAddress  orgEmail = None cn = calendar.getOrganizerProperty().params().get('CN', (None,))[0]&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;To:  ...</description>
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<title>10.6 Virtualize machine-specific OS X Server in Fusion</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20101220034435995</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 07:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>OS X Server</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/106only.png&quot; alt=&quot;Snow Leopard only hint&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;I did all this on a new mid-2010 Mac mini Server (with an external MacBook Air SuperDrive), with OS X Server 10.6.5 (re)installed on the upper drive (*disk1*) and OS X client 10.6.5 (and Fusion, many other apps, etc.) installed on the lower drive (*disk0*): i.e., with the computer used mainly as a client desktop rather than a server; so, virtualizing the server OS might be the most convenient solution, while - if desired - also being able to natively boot into the server (at least as an experiment).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So, you want to virtualize a whole hard drive (HD) with OS X Server installed? Or, more simply, if you want to install OS X Server onto an 'ordinary,' file-based Fusion virtual machine (VM), but only have a machine-specific install DVD (which will refuse to install if used to boot the VM), here is what I did.
Part 1: If you want to virtualize a whole dis ...</description>
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<title>10.6: Exclude Software Update data in Time Machine backups</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20100524084438338</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>OS X Server</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/106only.png&quot; alt=&quot;Snow Leopard only hint&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;Using the Time Machine preference pane, it is not possible to effectively exclude the data for the Software Update service from Time Machine backups on Mac OS X Server 10.6. A method is presented here which will do that.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;By default the software downloaded from Apple’s servers necessary for the Software Update service is located at &lt;em&gt;/private/var/db/swupd&lt;/em&gt;. When excluding this directory using the Time Machine preference pane the path is changed to &lt;em&gt;/var/db/swupd&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;/var&lt;/em&gt; being a symbolic link to &lt;em&gt;/private/var&lt;/em&gt;) and the data is still backed up. [&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; This is for Snow Leopard Server only.]
To remove the Software Update service data from the backups, follow these steps using an administrative account: &lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Exclude /private/var/db/swupd or /var/db/swupd in the Time Machine preference pane.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Quit t ...&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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