The following works awesome and fast for failed LDAP/Kerberos with the specified log messages. Visit here for the fix: http://www.prestonlee.com/2009/07/08/recovering-a-corrupt-openldap-database-on-osx-server/ Last night we noticed some services provided by an OSX Leopard Server instance were not working correctly. The iChat AFP and Web services were not authenticating. In Server Admin.app the “Overview” tab of the Open Directory service reported… LDAP Server is: Not Running Password Server is: Running Kerberos is: Not Running

Apple Mail creates some verbose HTML for signatures that when used with an attached image can confuse some Outlook environments and everything will come through as HTML attachments. Ideally link images to web server ones so there is no attachment. Below are instructions and an example. Create a signature in Apple Mail > Preferences so a webarchive file is created in /Users/[your-name]/Library/Mail/Signatures Create the HTML signature in a text editor and open in Safari File [...]

** The Sent Items note at the bottom is important as it is most likely set differently. Google Apps Sync Download & Windows/Outlook update links https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gappssync Google Apps Sync Info http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=147751 This is a great page to leave for the team member as it answers a lot of requests (offline!) and notes differences. The installation/setup of the plugin will create an entirely new Outlook profile so there is no need to adjust the IMAP account [...]

Mac OS X No extra Server software purchase Limited to 10 simultaneously connected file sharing users No support for separate user logins - everyone signs in with the same username/password. This means we cannot track/report a user's access to the server and when someone leaves the company we have to change the password for everyone. No support for custom folder permissions. This is an effect of the previous point: if everyone signs in as the [...]

If you have an iPhone the ability to sync Address Book on your Mac is enabled in the preferences once the iPhone is synched for the fisrt time. So how do you sync your Gmail contacts with Address Book if you don’t have an iPhone? Simple. Open up Terminal and type the following followed by the enter key: defaults write com.apple.iPod Devices -dict-add red-herring ‘{ “Family ID” = 10001; }’ That’s it! Now open up [...]

To change the folder that Outlook opens to by default upon launch... • Tools>Options • Other tab • Advanced Options button

These instructions disables SSLv2 on Mac OS X Server for clients who are going through PCI compliance certification which requires SSLv3. There are additional files to the httpd.conf that Server Admin uses to create that file initially. I haven't tested whether it makes sense to edit those files as well so add on if you think so. They are in the same folder with different extensions. Verify current settings Open Terminal. Enter openssl s_client -connect [...]

An awesome utility for troubleshooting Time Machine errors. You can set it to monitor and get notified by email when there's been an issue: http://www.carnationsoftware.com/TM_Error_Log_WebPage.html

In tests run on a production environment we received file locking notifications on both Windows and Macintosh systems. We tested opening a file (a Word document) on a Macintosh first and then opening the same document in Windows while it was still open on the Mac and received a notification that the document was already being used by another user. The notification prompted to open in Read-only mode and then when clicking Save from this [...]

Recommendation for user-maintained color calibration from Jay Kinghorn: Color Monkey & Colorize (Calibrator)