Category Archives: Mac Client Management

Enable Apache’s directory listing in Lion server

You need to enable directory listing in your Lion server’s web server if you want to host munki updates for your Mac clients, e.g.

There’s no option to that in the GUI, so here’s how you do that:

Extended Mac Client Management Services

More and more enterprises want to integrate Mac clients into existing Windows or UNIX/Linux environments without the need to buy, set up and maintain additional Mac servers.

I agree with these companies that it can be very efficient to extend an existing infrastructure for Mac client management, as this allows you to use your support teams for this new task without big changes in organization, operation and infrastructure.

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.