Creating a bootable USB drive Mac OS X installer can save you time and bandwidth when you have a few Macs you want to update or you want a backup copy of your operating system installer. Fortunately, it's pretty straight forward to create a USB installer for the latest OS X Yosemite, currently in beta, and the process is the same as OS X 10.9 Mavericks. You will have to apply … [Read more...]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 now available
After six months in beta, RHEL has reached general availability. Subscribers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux can now check out version 7 after its release yesterday. The announcement was made in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Blog, the developer blog, and with an official press release. Key Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 features to address next-generation IT needs include: Enhanced … [Read more...]
Tails 1.0 – live Linux for anonymity and privacy
Tails, a live operating system powered by Debian Linux, provides an environment aiming to protect your privacy and anonymity. You can download the ISO and put it on a DVD, USB drive, or an SD card. From there, you can boot a system into this different operating system while leaving the native operating system untouched. Tails has made quite a name for itself recently with … [Read more...]
New Administrative Templates for Windows 8.1 Update and Internet Explorer 11
With the new Windows 8.1 Update arriving this week (unless you use WSUS), I grabbed the updated Administrative Templates for Group Policy. I use a Central Store for my environment, so I copied the updated .admx templates to there and now all policy administrators have the updated policies to manage the new settings. I was specifically looking for the new Internet Explorer 11 … [Read more...]
Windows Update 8.1 pulled from WSUS
An issue has been identified in the Windows 8.1 Update that has caused Microsoft to pull the update from WSUS servers. Windows Server Update Services servers are servers within an organization that cache Windows Updates and help save bandwidth, speed up the update process, and enable isolated systems to remain updated. Microsoft explained in a blog post to the WSUS Product … [Read more...]