This morning one of my Apple Software Servers (ASUS) was not supplying updates. When checking the swupd_err.log in Server Admin I saw the following repeated hundreds of times:
Syntax error on line 241 of /etc/swupd/swupd.conf: Port must be specified
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After upgrading my servers to 10.7.3, I received the error message “Error Reading Settings” when clicking the “Web Service” in “Server.app”.
With the release of 10.7.3 Server you can now perform port redirects via the “Server.app.” With that in mind & the fact that I had manually added a redirect as mentioned here, i decided to revert my web service back to the default settings & then apply the redirect using “Server.app”
To reset the web service back to default settings i ran the below with Server.app not running:
sudo serveradmin command web:command=restoreFactorySettings
I then relaunched “Server.app” clicked web service & we were back in business!
Last year we migrated our environment from Lotus Notes to Exchange 2010.
As such, we’re using Outlook 2011 on our Mac clients.
Some users accounts would just keep downloading.. after much head scratching & hair tearing we found the issue.
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This is an oldie but a goodie..
I’ve found in various environments that if you’ve got AD Mobile Accounts setup on a mac that has an Airport Card as is not connected to the Office LAN logins can take upto 10 minutes.
In all of these environments, the AD Domain was not resolvable outside the LAN.
There are three solutions for this:
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I just spent too many hours struggling with a newly created NetBoot Image that booted, but would not launch any applications from the dock & the item that was due to launch at login didn’t (Casper Imaging). However, if i logged out the NetBoot user & logged back in, all was well!
Come midnight (I was remotely NetBooting a machine), I decided to cut my losses & come in next day which was my day off.
Turns out the NetBoot was fine, the issue was simply that the iMac was building had a PC Keyboard connected & not a Mac one!!
As the tagline says, doing the donkey work to make you look like a smart ass!!