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- Server Cleanup
- Reset Home folder and Windows profile permissions. Redirect browser caches and movie saving locations. Also some other useful stuff here (including Kid Pix 4 redirect to Home folder). Free.
HomeDirectoryHelper
- Similar to SC above - copy files to and delete files from Home folders, reset home folder permissions, Group ownership, etc. Free.
OmniDiskSweeper
- Find the home folder space hogs on your server data disk. Free.
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| See also: Useful OSX Server and Network Utilities |
- Admin Tools Compatibility
- Info about which version of Admin Tools and client is compatible with each version of Mac OS X Server.
APC Tracker
- Software for monitoring and managing an APC UPS.
Apple Serial Number Info
- Lots of info about the build history and specs of your computer. All you need is te serial number.
fseventer
- Observe system file changes after installing software or making preference changes.
Home Directory Redirector
- Redirect folders (eg MS Office User Data, etc) to the local disk, rather than the network Home folder.
KeyChain Minder
- Fix those annoying KeyChain messages (which occur if a user's password has been changed by the admin, etc).
NoobProof
- Firewall rules setup tool.
PrintingWorks
- Open-source print accounting software.
PrinterSetup
- Streamline the duplication of printer setup files on multiple computers. Open source.
Propagator
- Copy one files or folders into the folders of dozens, or hundreds, or thousands of users. Great for preference files.
Software Update Enabler
- Use a local software update server, but not have the computer managed by a central server. (10.4)
TextWrangler
- Edit your system files - maintains Unix carriage returns.
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- Time Machine Scheduler
- Time Machine runs every hour, and taxes your processor. This interface has been written to block out running at certain times, which may make it usable for a server backup.
Visage
- Easily and safely customize your Mac OS X login screen. Add custom images, add a text message, add an Acceptable Use Policy and change the host information displayed.
WhatSize?
- Discover the space hogs on your server.
WorkGroup Manager Addendum
- Similar to HDH and Server Cleanup (above) - reset Home folder permissions, change groups access to Home folders, distribute & delete files and caches from Home folders.
Mac OS X Server Web Password
- If you like tinkering with this sort of thing - allows a user to change their password from a web page (might be useful for Windows users).
Web Pasword Change & Reset
- Another option for the above - maybe a bit more recent?
Sharepoints
- No file server? SharePoints lets you add and delete share points and users and groups to computers running OSX client. Also provides for configuration of AFS and Samba SMB Server properties.
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- xSUIM
- (OSX Server User Import Manager)
- Developed primarily for NSW Public Schools, but could be used with other systems. (Needs Filemaker). Imports users from OASIS into Workgroup Manager, as well as keeping your user accounts (and Intranet index pages) synchronised with your school's OASIS admin records. (You will need a copy of FileMakerPro - Get FMP Demo).
Passenger
- Comprehensive tool to create users, set up folders, permissions, etc for OSX servers. (Commercial - about $US60)
SWIG
- (Student
Web Index Generator)
- A spreadsheet that exports a web index page, providing links to student web pages on an OS X web server.
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