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Re: Purge MCX caches in 10.5 Leopard Client?



On 01/09/2008 09:06 AM, "Josh Wisenbaker" <email@hidden> wrote:

>>> dscl actually has a mcx plugin now so things are easier to deal with
>>> as far as doing scripted policy reads and writes. Also check out
>>> mcxquery and you can stop being so envious of the Windows admins and
>>> their resultant set of policy tool. :)
>> 
>> Now I'm just jealous of in-GUI OU configuration, showing the actual
>> tree
>> structure, drag and drop of machines and people, a unified UI for
>> management, better scriptability...
> 
> Yeah, but it's nice to check one thing off the list! Now someone just
> needs to whip up and ASS app to drive mcxqueury.

Yeah...lets use ASS to replicate the functionality of the Active Directory
tools on Mac OS X. That's right after I drive rusty nails in my eyes,
because that, as it turns out, is less painful than using ASS.

To be honest, Server Admin is MUCH better in Mac OS X 10.5 Server, but it
still has a long row to hoe before it's where it needs to be for business
IT.

> 
>> 
>> 
>> On the other hand, Windows SNMP support still sucks.
> 
> And _see_ that got better on 10.5!

Well, it kind of had to, as it was pretty much nonfunctional on Intel in
10.4

-- 
John C. Welch         Writer/Analyst
Bynkii.com              Mac and other opinions
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