Sample files and documentation from the April 2008 TIG meeting on Macintosh OS X / Active Directory integration may be found online at:

http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20080304215842264&query=sandbox

Good to see all of you again!

...roy

The latest version of Apple's Macintosh OS X (10.5) called "Leopard" hits the shelves today!

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/

Macenstein reports: "All those people who like to buy into the whole "Adobe secretly hates Apple and will drop Mac support one day" rumors may have just lost a little wind from their sails. Adobe has announced that this morning they will be releasing a beta version of their upcoming Photoshop update, which will bring native Intel-Mac support for the latest Apple hardware.

In fact, in their press release, Adobe specifically mentions releasing this beta (the first of its kind for their flagship application) to aid Mac users in adopting Apple's latest offerings.

"Adobe is delivering a widely available Photoshop CS3 beta to enable customers to more easily transition to the latest hardware platforms, particularly Apple's new Intel-based systems... The final shipping release of Adobe Photoshop CS3 is planned for Spring 2007."

The beta can be downloaded here."
http://labs.adobe.com

This update addresses several issues in the X11 for Mac OS X package, enabling it to better handle:

GLX stereo visuals
offscreen rendering to GLX Pbuffers and Pixmaps
To tell X11 to take advantage of stereo visuals, enter:

$ defaults write com.apple.x11 enable_stereo -bool true

Download the update via Software Update.

This update fixes vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code. This update also fixes issues in Microsoft Entourage 2004 for Mac and includes all of the improvements released in all previous Office 2004 updates.

Applies to: Office 2004 Standard Edition, Office 2004 Student and Teacher Edition, Office 2004 Professional Edition, Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac, Microsoft Excel 2004 for Mac, Microsoft PowerPoint 2004 for Mac, Entourage 2004.

Released: July 11, 2006

Download at:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/download/office2004/Office2004_11.2.5.xml&secid=4&ssid=29&flgnosysreq=True

QuickTime 7.1.2 addresses an issue previewing iDVD projects. This update is recommended for all QuickTime 7 users.

Important Notice to QuickTime Pro Users
Installation of QuickTime 7 will disable the QuickTime Pro functionality in prior versions of QuickTime, such as QuickTime 5 or QuickTime 6. If you proceed with this installation, you must purchase a new QuickTime 7 Pro key to regain QuickTime Pro functionality. After installation, visit www.apple.com/quicktime to purchase a QuickTime 7 Pro key.

I saw this over on macosxhints.com and thought I'd re-post it here. The original URL is:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060618215149203

"I often see many people having trouble with OS X computers behind ISA Server: AOL IM, MSN Messenger, HTTP/HTTPS access and so forth do not function correctly. OS X supports the autoconfiguration for proxies via a PAC file. Under Networks, go to the network connection you want to configure, and then to the Proxies tab. Scroll to the bottom of the list of proxies and select Automatic Proxy Configuration.

In the URL box, type in:
http://proxy.server.net:8080/wpad.dat

...where proxy.server.net is the fully qualified domain name of your proxy server. Note that wpad.dat must be in lower-case, otherwise it will fail. Also note that OS X will connect as a SecureNAT client, so your IT department must configure SecureNAT clients (many Windows shops will just use the standard Firewall client, which is Windows-only).

This hint may or may not work with ISA Server 2004."

QuickTime 7.1.1 addresses an issue with 3rd party start-up items on Intel Macs. This release also fixes an issue exporting Keynote presentations to iDVD.

Important Notice to QuickTime Pro Users
Installation of QuickTime 7 will disable the QuickTime Pro functionality in prior versions of QuickTime, such as QuickTime 5 or QuickTime 6. If you proceed with this installation, you must purchase a new QuickTime 7 Pro key to regain QuickTime Pro functionality. After installation, visit www.apple.com/quicktime to purchase a QuickTime 7 Pro key.

More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp (for now), you can download a public beta today.

As elegant as it gets
Boot Camp lets you install Windows XP without moving your Mac data, though you will need to bring your own copy to the table, as Apple Computer does not sell or support Microsoft Windows.(1) Boot Camp will burn a CD of all the required drivers for Windows so you don't have to scrounge around the Internet looking for them.

Run XP natively
Once you’ve completed Boot Camp, simply hold down the option key at startup to choose between Mac OS X and Windows. (That’s the “alt” key for you longtime Windows users.) After starting up, your Mac runs Windows completely natively. Simply restart to come back to Mac.

Read the full article from Apple: http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

VersionTracker, the online resource for tracking application versions, has now begun tracking the new Universal Binaries for OS X. Universal Binaries are applications that have beeen compliled to run under both PowerPC and the new Intel x86 Mac architectures. Why should you care? A universal binary will run natively on an Intel Mac, and not need to use the Rosetta emmulation layer, which means the app will run at the full speed of the machine and be fully functional.

VersionTracker's Mactel list of apps is here: http://www.versiontracker.com/macintel/ and you'll also find it's RSS feed syndicated on the right side of the page here on macweb.