Network Systems Engineers Consortium
GhostFile plugin for Labtech is a Host file manager that allows a Tech to add, update or delete host file entries from within LabTech. The client console will allow management of 1, many or all systems under the client from a single interface. The plugin will write a new host file to the systems and send a DNS resolver flush command to the system so entries take effect immediately.
Version 1.0.2 now available for download
So you want a script to install Vipre AV on Mac systems well I got just the thing for you.
Here is what I did.
Create a 2 line LT script,
In the description field of your new script type in the following, feel free to cut and paste if you want.
“I promise if this script works for me to send Cubert a Starbucks Gift card”
Now lets add our first line to the script
Line 1 = “write file” command to /tmp/myviperinstall.sh
content =
cd /tmp
curl -O http://myserver/labtech/transfer/Vipre/MacVIPREBusiness2.0.87.dmg
hdiutil attach MacVIPREBusiness2.0.87.dmgcd “/
Volumes/GFI Software VIPRE Business – 2.0.87″/
installer -pkg “GFI Software VIPRE Business Install.pkg” -target “/”
cd /tmp
sleep 5
hdiutil detach “/Volumes/GFI Software VIPRE Business – 2.0.87″/
Do not forget to edit the URL and name of the viper DMG file. I was using 2.0.87 when I wrote this so you will need to make any changes to file names and mount directory names.
*note* I left out the first line of text which normally would be (#!/bin/sh). The “Write File” function had issues with the !, not sure if I needed to escape that or not so I just left it out.
The next script line should be “Shell Extended” with a cmd of “/bin/sh /tmp/myvipreinstall.sh”
The 2 lines combined will write the script file to the Mac system and then execute the shell script. The shell script uses curl to download your DMG and then mounts DMG, and executes the PKG installer.
I am also working on updating the server preference for Mac to point to Vipre server and then updating LT database to show that AV is installed.
That will come later in the show!
Cubert
Your company has setup an local or Office 365 Microsoft Lync service and you are having a hard time connecting to it using your Mac. When you put in your information you receive the following error back – “”Sign in to Microsoft Lync failed because the service is not available or you may not be connected to the Internet“.
I had a similar problem recently and found through digging around that actually I was having a SSL failure where the Mac was rejecting the unknown CA authority that signed Microsofts “sipdir.online.lync.com” URL used to connect to Office 365’s Lync services. We had to import the SSL into our key ring manually and then assign the always trust to the certificate.
By default the SSL imported into “Microsoft Intermediate Certificates” inside of the Key Ring Manager , you need to double click this certificate to pop the information box on the certificate, find the Trust drop down which should expose the selection boxes that will allows you to set the trust level on the certificate. Set it to Always Trust, now 2 finger click on SSL certificate and select copy certificate. Next select the System folder inside of the Key Ring Manager then 2 finger click in the right panel of the System Folder view and select paste “certificate name” so that the certificate is now in both places.
Launch Lync, place Active Directory email address in the email box and in the user ID box and your domain password to log in.
You can download here or from a Windows box, Goto https://sipdir.online.lync.com/ in Chrome and the following should appear.
Now click the green pad lock to bring up the Permissions and Connections property box. and select the Connection tab. Then select the Certificate Information link.
This properties box should appear, select the details tab and then the copy to file button to launch the export wizard and export the SSL (using the defaults only) to a file.
Now copy that file over to your Mac or zip it up and email it to an account accessible via the Mac system and follow the import process above on all Mac systems that have issues connecting.
Cubert has noting better to do with his time then to play with the Text to Speach functions available on a Mac. Well today he has put together a smaill Kaseya Agent Procedure that sings a little song to to the unspecting user of a Mac system. Just import the script and launch it against the unsupecting to get a quick laugh. You can do one further by modifing the script and using it to announce the start or finish of a script or process your running on a users Mac. A good example of this would be to announce to the user that backups have started and to not sut down the system untill the voice tells you to.
Download – > Kaseya Agent Procedure_Make_Mac_sing_stupid_song
There is a lot fo things you could use this for but the funnest of all is to just let your imagination run wild!!
You can edit the script and change the voice sytles, the text it speaks or the volumn you want to set for the speakers.
Enjoy
Cubert
How to install and run a MAC on a windows or Linux systems virtually has been made easy with the tools and instructions available for download.
Download EmpireEFI and Full Pdf Manual here –> MAC-Leopard_Vbox-VM
With just a little effort you can run MAC OSX 10 Snow Leopard on your windows system or linux system. You can buy OSX at BestBuy for about $30 and get for free
How to install and run a MAC on a windows or Linux systems virtually has been made easy with the tools and instructions available for download.
Download EmpireEFI and Full Pdf Manual here –> MAC-Leopard_Vbox-VM
With just a little effort you can run MAC OSX 10 Snow Leopard on your windows system or linux system. You can buy OSX at BestBuy for about $30 and get for free Vbox from the Web here at http://www.virtualbox.org/ . Then download the zip package above which includes the EmpireEFI ISO and the complete instructions on how to install into a VM using Vbox.
FYI
Intel hardware works better than AMD
Enjoy