In a previous article, I introduced DeployStudio, a server application used to facilitate the creation, management, and deployment of images for OS X. It included information to help system admins get ...

Apple’s NetBoot technology has been a staple part of Mac OS X Server since the latter’s original release. NetBoot allows Mac clients to start and run applications using a server-hosted disk image ...

In Part 1 of this series, we looked at how Mac OS X Server’s NetBoot process allows Macintosh machines to boot by using a server-based disk image instead of booting via a local disk. Part 1 also ...

Important: It was noted by a reader last week that in El Capitan you need to bless a NetBoot server in order to use it. If you cannot start your Mac from your server perform the following task: Over ...

You may recall from our episode on starting your Mac using NetBoot images that using a NetBoot image requires you to go through the setup process every time you restarted your Mac. This sounds useless ...

Many people have their home network setup with a dynamic dns service in order to remote access their files, printers, or Pi based security camera systems. Many people also suffer from less than ...

Provided you have at lest two drives in the XServe(striped) thus giving you enough disk read speed, it should technically be faster. Apple claims it to be faster than the internal hd's on imacs, I ...