How To: Deploy MS Office to Mac One of the biggest pains in deploying MS Office to OS X in a business or education environment is making sure that the serial number deploys too. To do this, you need to also deploy the following files: ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.autoupdate2.plist ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.error_reporting.plist ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.plist ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.setupassistant.plist Deploying these files will keep also [...]

Here is the command via terminal to find the Serial Number for OS X Server. sudo /System/Library/ServerSetup/serverserialnumberutil -get Out put will be the serial number, the name and company that it’s registered too. This only works on OS X Server 10.6 or higher.

QuarkXPress is a Page Layout program that runs exclusively on OS X. In recent years it’s popularity has dropped immensely, due in part to the way the company was run, and due in part to the rise in popularity of Adobe’s InDesign Program. Personally I think that the long serial numbers needed to install the [...]

Here is an awesome little script by Scott Russell of the University of Notre Dame. Using the “send Unix command” in Apple Remote Desktop, it can pull the system’s serial number, send the information to Apple’s Warranty Website and then tell you if the machine is under warranty. #!/bin/bash # warranty.sh # Description:   looks up [...]

Apple has put up a great web page for those of us who support Macintosh Computers and wish to know the specific specifications on them. Apple Support Spec page: http://support.apple.com/specs Machines can be searched for by name or much better, by serial number. If you enter the serial number it pulls up the fulls specifications [...]