Location of OS X Mountain Lion download file

After purchasing Mountain Lion OS (10.8) from the App Store for $20, the installer begins to download. If you’ve ever wondered or needed to know where the file download is, I’ve been able to locate it during the download (maybe uniquely named). I used a program called EasyFind with the parameters: Search For: *.*, Only Files, Operator: UNIX-Wildcards, Include: Package Content & Invisible Files & Folders. I sorted by SIZE and watched for the largest file to appear at the top of the search window and kept refreshing the list. The main file is called mzm.whodaifs.pkg.

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Once finished though, immediately the folder above with the four downloaded files are removed and the installer is placed in your hard drive in the /Applications folder called Install OS X Mountain Lion. Once you launch this installer and finish with the installation, the installer is deleted. If you want to keep the file and create a USB installer for future use, select on the App, right click and select show package contents. Navigate into the Contents -> SharedSupport and copy the InstallESD.dmg file to your desktop or other location.

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Enabling Bonjour browsing on SonicWALL Networks from WLAN to LAN

1. Navigate to Network -> Interfaces and select the on the pencil icon under Configure to edit the LAN Zone. Press Advanced and check on “Enable Multicast Support” – Click OK

2. Navigate to Network -> Interfaces and select the on the pencil icon under Configure to edit the WLAN Zone. Press Advanced and check on “Enable Multicast Support” – Click OK

3. Navigate to Firewall Settings and check on “Enable Multicast” under Multicast Snooping and check off “Require IGMP Membership reports for multicast data forwarding” just below

4. Under Multicast Policies select “Enable Reception of all Multicast Addresses” - Click Accept

5. Navigate to Firewall -> Access Rules and select on Matrix in the View Style then press on “WLAN to Multicast Zone” and create an access rule that looks like this:

Action – Allow

From Zone – WLAN

To Zone – MULTICAST

Service - Any

Source – Any

Destination – Any

User Allowed – All

Click Add

6. Navigate to Firewall -> Access Rule and select “WLAN to LAN Zone” and create a access rule that looks like this:

Action – Allow

From Zone - LAN

To Zone – MULTICAST

Service - Any

Source – Any

Destination – Any

User Allowed – All

Click Add

Comcast Official Blocked Ports

Port: 25 (TCP/UDP)

Port 25 is unsecured, and Botnet spammers can use it to send spam. If your computer has been compromised, our anti-spam system will prevent your email programs (e.g. Outlook Express) from sending email. You'll still receive email. This doesn't apply to webmail services such as Comcast webmail, Yahoo and Gmail. We recommendconfiguring your email program to use port 465 w/ SSL enabled.

Port: 68 (UDP)

UDP Port 68, which is used to obtain dynamic Internet Protocol (IP) address information from our dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server, is vulnerable to malicious hacks.

Port: 135-139 (TCP/UDP)

NetBios services allow file sharing over networks. When improperly configured, ports 135-139 can expose critical system files or give full file system access (run, delete, copy) to any malicious intruder connected to the network.

Port: 445 (TCP)

Port 445 is vulnerable to attacks, exploits and malware such as the Sasser and Nimda worms.

Port: 520 (TCP/UDP)

Port 520 is vulnerable to malicious route updates, which provides several attack possibilities.

Port: 1080 (TCP)

Port 1080 is vulnerable to, among others, viruses, worms and DoS attacks.

Enable Diagnostics Logs on iPhone / iPad

You can enable Diagnostics Logs by installing a special configuration profile on the device:

1.    Use your device to read this email and tap the attachment (SyncDiagnosticsProfile.mobileconfig). 

2.    Tap Install, then Install Now to install the profile. Enter your passcode if prompted.

3.    Tap Reboot to complete the installation. Wait for your device to reboot. Logging is now enabled.

4.    Reproduce the sync issue you reported.

5.    Under the Settings menu, tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars, then tap the account you are troubleshooting. Tap the newly added Diagnostics menu and tap Save Logs.

6.    Enter any notes you feel would be helpful to Apple (optional), and tap OK.

7.    To retrieve the log file, connect your device to iTunes on your computer. iTunes should open automatically and copy the log file to your computer. If iTunes does not copy the log file, select your device in iTunes and click Sync.

8.    The log file may be found in one of the following locations:

§  Windows 7 and Vista: C:\Users\[Your User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\Logs\CrashReporter\MobileDevice\<device-name>\DALogs\
Note: The AppData folder is hidden by default. Choose Folder and Search Options from the Organizemenu in the file browser window, then click the View tab and change the "Hidden files and folders" option to "Show hidden files and folders".

§  Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\[Your User Name]\Application Data\Apple Computer\Logs\CrashReporter\MobileDevice\<device-name>\DALogs\
Note: The Application Data folder is hidden by default. Choose Tools > Folder Options in the file browser window, then click the View tab and change the "Hidden files and folders" option to "Show hidden files and folders".

§  Mac OS X: /Users/[username]/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/MobileDevice/<device-name>/DALogs/

9.    Compress the desired log files into a ZIP file and email as an attachment to Apple.
Note: Detailed device logs may include personally identifiable information, including, without limitation, your account name, information regarding your contacts, calendar events, and email correspondence ("Device Logs"). Providing these Device Logs is voluntary, but if you do provide them, you acknowledge that Apple may use them internally for diagnostic purposes. Alternatively, you may wish to create a temporary account, with fictional data, for testing purposes.

10.  To maintain performance, disable logging by removing the configuration profile. Tap Settings > General > Profiles, select the profile, and tap Delete.

How to Manually Convert & Import the Mac Outlook 2011 "Recent Address" file into Outlook Contacts

Written by: Brett Wenzlaff of Source Networks, Inc.

This can be particularly helpful if you have a Microsoft Outlook 2011 email Database that is non-repairable but you can salvage the “Recent Address” file or you simply want to create a new Outlook Identity and migrate over the “recent addresses” from the old Identity.

These manual steps will result in converting “recent addresses” into actual contacts in your Outlook Address Book where these new Contacts will only have email address info (but you can always fill in name and other data).

NOTE: Depending on how many addresses are in your file and how much cleanup is required, this process could take 15 minutes to maybe 55 minutes!

In brief, we’re going to do the following;

  1. Open Recent Address file in TextEdit and do preliminary cleanup.
  2. Copy to Microsoft Word and do more cleanup & altering.
  3. Paste into Excel and save into a CSV format.
  4. Import the CSV file into the Outlook Address Book.

DETAILED STEPS BELOW:

Locate the “recent” address file in your user “home folder” at this location; ~\Documents\Microsoft User Data\Office 2011 Identities\”User Identity Name”\Data Records\Recent Addresses\OT\OB\OM\OK (or similar name on this last folder)\x19_”some-varied-number”.olk14recent  (and option-drag it to copy it to your desktop or folder of choice).

Double click this file then choose to open it using the Apple TextEdit program.

Scroll up and down this document to identify the section(s) of contiguous email addresses as opposed to other sections that will look like gibberish text (Note: my file had gibberish text codes, then email addresses, then another section of gibberish text followed by a second section of email addresses – so identify how many “sections” contain email address info).

Delete all the gibberish codes in front of the email addresses, in between any sections of email addresses as well as delete all gibberish codes after the email addresses and you should be left with a long contiguous list of email addresses without any (or most) of the gibberish text.

SAMPLE “TEXT-EDIT” PIC BELOW (DELETE ALL “GIBBERSIH”);

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Save this file in TextEdit as something like “Recent Addresses Raw Text”.

Launch Microsoft Word 2011 then open the newly created “Raw Text” file (note: if your “Raw Text” filename is grayed-out - you might have to hit the “ENABLE” drop-down menu and select “All Readable Documents”), then on the next window I chose text encoding of “MS-DOS” and “Western (Mac OS Roman)”.

Once the file is open in Word, scroll up and down all pages and delete any straggler gibberish characters that still might have imported in either the front, mid-section or in back end of the contiguous email addresses.

SAMPLE “WORD” PIC BELOW (DELETE ALL “GIBBERISH”);

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Next in Word, use the Edit pull-down menu to select “Find”, then select the sub-menu “Replace” which should open the “Find and Replace” window.

At this point we’re going to do a little “quality” test on the document by entering in the upper “Find” box the characters “.com” (without the quotation marks). Scroll down the list to examine all of the .com’s that are highlighted, typically that 2nd section of email addresses will have some .com’s but they are not showing as highlighted. If you do see some .com’s that are not highlighted, then perform the next “special” step to help clean these funky email addresses!

SAMPLE WORD 2011 “FIND/REPLACE” BOX SEARCH (FOR ABOVE STEP);

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SPECIAL STEP (TYPICALLY REQUIRED) à Copy all the text/email addresses in Word then paste it into a new blank TextEdit document, then copy all the text in TextEdit then paste it back into a new Word document. This should get rid of some “hidden spaces” that are in that 2nd “funky” email section where some of your .com email addresses did not hightlight - but for some reason Word does not display nor identify them correctly with the hidden spaces. You might want to repeat the previous step to ensure all “.com’s”  are now showing highlighted throughout the entire document!

In the upper “Find” box put in .com, in the lower “Replace” box put .com then hit the pull-down menu to the right of the second box and select “Manual Line Break” (see pictures below), then hit the “Replace All” button (Note: Word 2008 is slightly different).

SAMPLE WORD 2011 2nd BOX DROP-DOWN SELECT “MANUAL LINE BREAK”;

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SAMPLE WORD 2011 FIND/REPLACE WITH LINE-BREAK SHOULD LOOK LIKE THIS (Before You Hit the “Replace All” button, note the added characters after the .com);

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(Note in above sample – there are “177-matches” that will get placed onto individual lines as a result of the “Manual Line Break” we added).

Next, repeat the same step above but use .net in place of .com (in both boxes).

Next, repeat the same step and in both boxes use .org. This should separate most, if not all of your email addresses onto their own individual lines but if you see a number of “.edu” or “.us” or other email domain names you can repeat the above step for those domains as required to make every email address show on an it’s own line. Next you will scroll up and down the document and clean up any straggler gibberish files.

NOTE: the emails for the domain “COMcast” may have been split into two segments so connect any “broken” Comcast email addresses along with delete any other non-valid looking emails that typically result from that funky “2nd section”.

Save the cleaned up Word file to whatever name you want.

Copy all lines of the now cleaned up email addresses in this document then paste them into a new Excel document starting at row #2 (we’re going to be using row #1 for some “header” labels).

Do a spot check to see how many email addresses pasted into the Excel document by scrolling down to the bottom of the list to see what row number the last entry is on (eg, if the last entry is on row 131 we know we have 130 addresses and we’ll use this “count” as a quality check after importing them into Outlook).

On the first row place the following into Cells A1, B1 & C1 respectively;

Email Address 1

Firstname

Lastname

SAMPLE EXCEL 2011 WITH “HEADER” LINE BEFORE SAVE AS CSV;

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NOTE: Don’t worry about the “Firstname” and “Lastname” cells next to the email addresses being empty, this is simply a requirement to set up the file as a properly formatted “CSV” (comma separated value) file.

Next do an Excel “Save As” and on the Format drop down menu select “Comma Separated Value (.csv)” and name the file whatever you want.

Exit Excel and launch Outlook.

Click on the Outlook “Contacts” / Address Book.

If you want to ultimately place the “Recent Addresses” we’re about to import in a separate folder, you might want to make a new temporary sub-folder called something like “Main Contacts Temp” and then drag all your main contacts into that sub-folder so your main Contacts is now empty (as it is our main “Contacts” folder where our new “CSV” contacts will import to and we want to keep them separated).

Next on the Outlook File pull-down menu select “Import” and on the next window select “Contacts or Messages From a Text File” then hit the arrow on lower-right.

On the next window select “Import Contacts From A Tab- or Comma-Delimited Text File and hit the arrow at the lower-right.

On the next window – navigate to where ever you saved the Excel “CSV” file and select it, you might want to scroll part way down the this import window list to ensure your Email Address 1 “mapping” is automatically lined up with the “Email Address 1” then hit the “Import” button.

OUTLOOK 2011 IMPORT WINDOW (Email Address 1 = Email Address 1):

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This should have imported all email addresses into your main Address Book “Contacts” window (where you can check the number of contacts and compare it to your Excel list as a quality check).

At this point you might want to make yet a new Address Book sub-folder called “Recent Addresses” and move all the newly imported emails into there.

Lastly, move all your main addresses from the “Main Contacts Temp” folder back into the main Address Book Contacts folder.

Now that all the “recent address” emails are in your Outlook Address Book, when you start a new email and go to type an email address it will access them from the address book and they will be presented as a choice in the drop-down list of email addresses. 

Create Hidden Admin User OS X 10.6

[Local User Name:~] user% sudo su

Password:

sh-3.2# dscl . -create /Users/hiddenadmin

sh-3.2# dscl . -create /Users/hiddenadmin RealName "Hidden Administrator"

sh-3.2# dscl . -create /Users/hiddenadmin UniqueID 499

sh-3.2# dscl . -create /Users/hiddenadmin PrimaryGroupID 20

sh-3.2# dscl . -create /Users/hiddenadmin UserShell /bin/bash

sh-3.2# dscl . -passwd /Users/hiddenadmin "password"

sh-3.2# dscl . -create /Users/hiddenadmin NFSHomeDirectory /var/hiddenadmin

sh-3.2# cp -R /System/Library/User\ Template/English.lproj /var/hiddenadmin

sh-3.2# chown -R hiddenadmin:staff /var/hiddenadmin

sh-3.2# dseditgroup -o edit -t user -a hiddenadmin admin

sh-3.2# /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -access -on -users hiddenadmin -privs -all -restart -agent

Starting...

Activated Remote Management.

Stopped ARD Agent.

Stopped VNC Server.

Stopped RFB Register MDNS

hiddenadmin: Set user remote control privileges.

hiddenadmin: Set user remote access.

Done.

 

sh-3.2# defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow Hide500Users -bool TRUE

 

The only place the hidden user will appear is in DSCL at /Local/Default/Users

Parallels 7 Configuration Options – Expanding the Initial HD Size

If you plan on using Window in Parallels for storage of files or to run a specific program you will need to change the initial installation default HD size of 64GB (32GB for earlier versions). You can expand the default partition before or after the installation, however in my experience, expanding the partition after Windows is installed has created many problems (i.e. Windows has blue-screened or has lost the boot-loader). Without the involvement of Parallels Tech Support, it has been be very difficult to repair this problem. Therefore expanding the HD before Windows is installed is my recommendation.

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To expand the 64GB default partition during installation, carefully watch each screen during the installation for the following screen and press Configure before pressing Continue:

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Press Hardware and select the Hard Disk 1 menu option and press Edit… to find the HD resizing option. 

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The default 64GB Size will be selected. Ether slide the adjustment arrow to your desired size or type in the size in Gigabytes. Leave the check boxes at there default and press Apply then Close.

Kerio Connect Email - Accessing a Users Email without their Knowledge...

If you need to gain access to a Kerio Connect users email without them knowing or having their password, here are the step you will have to do (OS X only):

1. I need to enable Mail Archiving - this collects ALL incoming and outgoing email for EVERY user
2. I need to create a new dummy user (example / password)
3. At some point you will need to stop the mail server and copy the target user's entire mail structure into the dummy user account (do so while logged in as root)

Once all this is done, then you can login as example / password via webmail to view all the target user's email up to that point in which you did the copy. This will give you access to his mailbox up to that point that will show any sent email and emails he/she has. If the user has deleted emails, they won't be there. To view all current email, login as a mail administrator (i.e. Admin / password) and look under the Public Folders left side bar to find the Archive Folders. In this folder you can sort the email found there by to or from to find emails relating specifically to the target user. 

There is NO master password or user that can directly log into an email account without that user's password.

Lion OS Collaboration Services - Manually Backing Up and Restoring

In Lion server, the Collaboration services (Address Book, iCal, Profile Manager, Webmail, and Wiki) all store their data in PostgreSQL databases. Each service has it's own database with the exception of Address Book and iCal which share a database.
By default, this database is stored under /var/pgsql/. If you have enabled Time Machine backups, full database dumps are made daily (using pg_dumpall) to /Library/Server/PostgreSQL/Backup/. "serveradmin settings postgres" offers a way to get and set various parameters.

If you want to backup and restore the individual databases outside of Time Machine, you can do so in the command line.
(PLEASE NOTE: YOU SHOULD HAVE THE SERVICE STOPPED WHEN PERFORMING ANY OF THE BACKUP OR RESTORE COMMANDS LISTED BELOW!!!)

AddressBook and iCal:
Database name: caldav
BACKING UP:

$ sudo -s
# PGUSER=_postgres ./usr/bin/pg_dump -U _postgres caldav -c -f /Library/Server/PostgreSQL/Backup/caldav.sql

(the -c flag on the pg_dump command here indicates that when we re-import the data, it should clear out ALL data from this database before importing, this prevents duplicate entries upon restoring)
RESTORING:

$ sudo -s
# psql -U _postgres -d collab -f /Library/Server/PostgreSQL/Backup/caldav.sql

Profile Manager:

Database Name: device_management
BACKING UP:

$ sudo -s
# PGUSER=_postgres ./usr/bin/pg_dump -U _postgres device_management -c -f /Library/Server/PostgreSQL/Backup/device_management.sql
RESTORING:
$ sudo -s
# psql -U _postgres -d device_management -f /Library/Server/PostgreSQL/Backup/device_management.sql

WebMail:
Database Name: roundcubemail
BACKING UP:

$ sudo -s
# PGUSER=_postgres ./usr/bin/pg_dump -U _postgres roundcubemail -c -f /Library/Server/PostgreSQL/Backup/roundcubemail.sql
RESTORING:
$ sudo -s
# psql -U _postgres -d roundcubemail -f /Library/Server/PostgreSQL/Backup/roundcubemail.sql

Wiki:
Database Name: collab
BACKING UP:

$ sudo -s
# PGUSER=_postgres ./usr/bin/pg_dump -U _postgres collab -c -f /Library/Server/PostgreSQL/Backup/collab.sql
RESTORING:
$ sudo -s
# psql -U _postgres -d collab -f /Library/Server/PostgreSQL/Backup/collab.sql

Additional Repair Permissions tool hidden away in Lion OS

diskutilityicon1. Restart Lion, and before you hear the chime, hold down the Command and R keys.

2. You’ll be at the Repair Utilities screen. Click the Utilities item in the Menu Bar, then click Terminal.

3. In the Terminal window, type resetpassword and hit Return.

4. The password reset utility window launches, but you’re not going to reset the password. Instead, click on icon for your Mac’s hard drive at the top. From the dropdown below it, select the user account where you’re having issues.

5. At the bottom of the window, you’ll see an area labeled Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs. Click the Reset button there.

The reset process takes just a couple of minutes. When it’s done, exit the programs you’ve opened and restart your Mac.


Repost from: http://blog.chron.com/techblog/2011/09/want-to-really-repair-permissions-on-your-mac-try-this/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+houstonchronicle%2Ftechblogfulltext+%28TechBlog+-+Full+Text%29