Posts Tagged ‘LANDesk

Add directory services data to LANDesk inventory

I posted over at the LANDesk community site on how I add AD and OD data to inventory, most of which LANDesk does not collect on it’s own. Much of this I did because we were moving from one OD domain to another and needed a way to see which machines remained on the old [...]

AD Integration, Desktop Management, Directory Services, LANDesk, Mac, Open Directory, Scripting

Disabling Automatic Updates for Office 2008, Apple Software Updates and Adobe CS4

Over at the Make Mac Work blog, Ellis has a very informative article about how to disable automatic update notifications for Apple Software Update, Microsoft Office 2008 and Adobe CS4.

Mac, Software, Software Packaging

LANDesk – Adding Apple Warranty Data to Inventory

A bash script that will do an online lookup of the Mac’s serial # to determine its’ warranty status, then add that data to custom data for LANDesk.

Automation, Hardware, LANDesk, Mac, Scripting