by Shishir Chandrawat | Nov 21, 2014 | Apple, OS X
Follow me Mac’s has always been about Power , simplicity and beauty, The latest OS X Yosemite released on 17th Nov 2014, Monday is nothing short on those aspects with special attention on beauty. It’s the latest OS for your Mac’s and consist of various visual and performance treats for you. Design Features It has streamlined toolbars to put more features in less space Better and smarter window controls Nice,clear and iconic dock New , redesigned and better looking apps like Safari , Mail and messages Improved notification Centre there is so much more you can see here Bigger and Brighter SpotLight Mac and IOS connected like never before Use your Mac to Dial and Answer your calls without Send and Receive SMS and iMessages from your MAC, message history remains synced between IOS and Mac Hand Off, start writing mail on IOS and finish it on MAC or start writing a report on Mac and finish it on iPad, it’s that simple Anyways, The purpose of this article is to give a pictorial step by step demonstration of installing Yosemite on Mac. It gives you a heads up of what you are getting into before you start your install. Lets get started Hope this article can give you an overview of how to install Yosemite on your Mac. For any other help or issue, feel free to start a new thread on our forum. Follow...
by Shishir Chandrawat | Nov 4, 2014 | Iphone, OS X
Follow me I am running the latest OS X Yosemite on my Mac and latest version IOS 8.1 on my Iphone 5s. From past couple of weeks every now and than when I connect my Iphone to Mac, Itunes sees it and tries to sync it but fails with error The Iphone cannot be synced because it cannot be found I researched alot on the issue but unable to find the reason behind the issue, probably its because of some latest update either on IOS or Mac which is causing it. It is more likely on IOS end as I have read that even users with Itunes installed on a windows PC is facing the same issue. Fortunately I was able to find the solution to this issue by Exiting Off Itunes and restarting it. Also at times rebooting my Mac was needed to fix the issue. Hopefully Apple will soon fix this one, until then restarting Itunes isn’t too bad of a solution. Follow...
by Shishir Chandrawat | Nov 4, 2014 | Apple, OS X, Printers, Server 2008 R2
Follow me Recently one of the user complained about not being able to print from remote desktop session to local printer, As a first step to check the issue we validated that the local printers are getting redirected to the remote server( In my case the local PC was MacBook OS X and the remote server was Windows 2008 R2). I found the printers to be redirecting fine. How to validated that printers are redirected 1) On the remote server go into control Panel -> Printers (this could be named differently in different OS) 2) Here one should see the list of all the printers installed on the remote server 3) You should be able to see the printers connected/installed on your local PC here as well and they will say redirected in bracket. So here, I was able to see all the redirected printers here (I had multiple printers installed on my local Mac), Incase you do not see the redirected printers here, then please follow our Troubleshooting Printer Redirection article Here also this other article may also be helpful in troubleshooting Printer Redirection Here. Anyways, as here in this case the redirected printer were showing up fine, I went ahead and gave a test print and it came out of the local printer without a delay. As always I gave a stare to the user, said from my eyes (what’s wrong), user was little perplexed and embarraced. I requested him to try to give a print, he went ahead and opened a PDF and tried to print it, I immediate pulled up the print queue (by clicking the...
by Shishir Chandrawat | Oct 7, 2014 | Apple, OS X, Outlook 2011 for Mac
Follow me We have faced multiple issues with Offline Address Book (OAB) with Mac Outlook 2011 and the most common culprit is found to be some kind of Corruption in OAB. Symptoms Outlook 2011 fails to Display Offline Address Book Steps to rebuild Offline Address Book (OAB) for Outlook 2011 for Mac 1) Quit Outlook completely (Ensure Outlook and Database Daemon process is quit completely from “Activity Monitor”) 2) Remove the default/active identity folder from ~/Library/Caches/Outlook/(Identity) Directory 3) Restart Outlook 4) Wait for 15-20 minutes and check if OAB gets listed, The process may take longer depending on your speed and connectivity to Exchange Server, It would be unwise to leave outlook running over night as well before trying any further troubleshooting. Follow...
by Shishir Chandrawat | Aug 29, 2014 | Apple, OS X, Server 2012, Windows 8
One fine day, suddenly I wasn’t able to RDP into one of our Windows 2012 R2 server, there were repeated authentication prompt, as if I am providing incorrect password. I asked some one else and he was able to RDP fine into the server. I tried remoting into another Windows 2008R2 server in same subnet and was able to do just fine. The only thing different from usual I was doing, was that today I was using my Mac OS X with its Microsoft Remote Desktop client Version 8.0.9 (Build 25073). So it looks like there was something which wasn’t specifically not letting me RDP. After some research I figured that Windows 2012 has another level of protection enabled by default when we enable remote desktop, which is Network Level Authentication (NLA). Few words about Network Level Authentication Network Level Authentication is an authentication method that can be used to enhance RD Session Host server security by requiring that the user be authenticated to the RD Session Host server before a session is created. Network Level Authentication completes user authentication before you establish a remote desktop connection and the logon screen appears. This is a more secure authentication method that can help protect the remote computer from malicious users and malicious software. Network Level Authentication (NLA) Requirement The client computer must be using an operating system, such as Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP with Service Pack 3, that supports the Credential Security Support Provider (CredSSP) protocol. More About NLA Here How to Fix it Fortunately the solution to my problem was quite Simple, which is disable the added protection of NLA on the server , here...
by Shishir Chandrawat | Jul 30, 2014 | OS X
Clean Install Mac OS X on MacBookPro: I have owned Mac Book Pro 2011 since almost 3 years now and its pretty much a work horse. With time it has gotten faster and faster ( Sarcastically) , hence decided to clean install it with OS X. Sharing as I am learning. Back-Up Please remember that you are doing a format and reinstall of OS, so the data will be completely wiped. You should backup your Data on an external drive before proceeding, How I did the backup 1) Picture : Assuming all your pictures are in Iphoto, just open Finder -> Pictures and copy the Iphoto library on an external drive 2) Itunes : Follow the article Backup Itunes to External drive. this basically tells you to copy the Itunes folder under Finder->Music to external drive, after ensuring that your music is actually there 3) Data : Copy data from Documents, Desktop, downloads and other respective folders and save it on external drive Lets get started Download Mac OS X operating system from App store, you can use the link below Download OS X By the time its downloading lets prepare the a USB drive to be made OS X startup drive PS: This drive will be completely formatted, so ensure that you do not have any important data on it a) Insert the USB pen drive ( have to be over 8 GB in size) in your Mac b) Open disk utility and select the drive ...
