Author Archives: André Aulich

Easily fix permission and sync issues with mobile home directories and SMB shares

Posted on May 11, 2012 by André Aulich. Category: Downloads, Mac Client Management, Mac OS X, Windows Server

If you use mobile home directories on Mac OS X 10.6 or OS X 10.7 with Windows Server 2008 R2 based SMB home shares, you can run into permission issues during home sync. . . . Continue reading →

How to make Lion clients work with Active Directory computer lists

Posted on May 2, 2012 by André Aulich. Category: Mac Client Management, Mac OS X, Windows Server

In Harald Monihart’s and my (german) O’Reilly book “Professionelles Mac-Client-Management in Windowsumgebungen” we describe how to use computer lists in Active Directory to manage your Mac clients.

To make this work, you need to extend your AD schema. We describe this process in our book, but you can also read it in our free sample chapter on the O’Reilly site. . . . Continue reading →

Virtual MXF and Final Cut Pro X

Posted on April 3, 2012 by André Aulich. Category: Media Asset Management, Video, Xsan/StorNext

Hamburg Pro Media has just released their latest tool called Virtual MXF.

It allows you to scan a folder or volume for any MXF files and virtualize them as QuickTime movies, so that Final Cut Pro X and other applications which can’t work on MXF files natively, can use them without transcoding. . . . Continue reading →