Let Macs use either Wi-Fi or Ethernet

If you manage Mac OS X clients, it can be a challenge to manage laptops with access to external Wi-Fi or ethernet networks.

For many companies it is important that their laptop users can access external networks for email and Internet access (e.g. at home, in the hotel or at a customer’s site) or because they need to access your customer’s server while they are on-site.

A must-see if you want to create anything useful:

http://www.youtube.com/user/LeadershipThinking

Apple’s Professional Markets Strategy (my two cents)

Many of the professionals working with Apple kit wonder if Apple is still going to provide them with great tools for professionals, or if Apple is going to more and more focus on consumer or prosumer markets.

In short, I would say, that

Use Xsan 2.2.x’s Filesystem Events and Archiware PresSTORE 4.x to Protect Large Volumes

If you work with a storage system larger than 10TB and let’s say houndred thousands or more files stored on it, saving these data as a backup or mirror can be quite challenging. I know many systems, which solely rely … Continue reading

Final Cut Server: How to import metadata from external MAMs

Lately I’ve seen more and more people connecting their Final Cut Server systems to other MAMs, and one of the main questions in these “multiple MAMs” environments is how to exchange metadata in between the different systems. If you want … Continue reading

Connecting Final Cut Server To Archiware PresSTORE – new tool and documentation !

Please notice: There’s an extended version available at: http://www.andre-aulich.de/en/perm/extended-fiprecon-version-available-for-free. And it’s still free!” Many of us would like to use Final Cut Server (FCSvr) as an archive solution to write high res media files to tape (or disks). By default, … Continue reading