AANDCP IT Solutions

Confluence 4.2 Has Been Released

AndrewP — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:27:14 +0000

Confluence 4.2 has been released today with heaps of new features and functionality.

There is an improved content creation with Page Layouts.

There are is now more support for social collaboration with Confluence “Likes” and “What’s Popular”.

Quick Comments allow you to quickly comment on content and share feedback.

The new visual Page Layouts features allows in-editor changes to the layout of your content. They are easy to apply from a drop-down menu in the Confluence editor.

The new social collaboration features, including popular content and likes are shown below in a video from the team at Atlassian.

For more information, or to download and upgrade your existing Confluence installation, check out http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/whats-new

Synology DSM 4.0 is now available

AndrewP — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:58:13 +0000

Synology have just released the latest DSM for their wide range of NAS devices.

Check it out here: http://www.synology.com/dsm/index.php?lang=enu

Architectural Firm

AndrewP — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:25:32 +0000

Supplied new computers, associated licenses and installation and support to a Hobart-based architecture firm. This project included data migration, virtualisation using Parallels, and some server-based changes. Work with server upgrades is on-going.

Orthopaedic Practice

AndrewP — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:19:54 +0000

Recently designed, ordered, configured and installed a new orthopaedic practice in Melbourne. The project included networking, a new server, and a few new computers. On-going support will be carried out remotely using solutions such as a VPN and LogMeIn.

Theme Update in Progress

AndrewP — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:34:29 +0000

Sorry for the hassles browsing the site – a theme upgrade is underway!

Confluence 4.1 is now available

AndrewP — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:09:37 +0000

The latest release of Confluence, 4.1, is now available for download from Atlassian.

I have already updated one site using Confluence, and the AANDCP Wiki will be updated over the next couple of days.

Confluence 4.0 is now available

AndrewP — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:28:37 +0000

The team at Atlassian have just released version 4.0 of their fantastic Wiki platform, Confluence.

You can find out more information here: Faster. Richer. Simpler. A new standard in content collaboration.

We have already downloaded the upgrade (as we have been using Confluence for a year or so now for documentation) and installed it without a hitch.

We have our instance running on a new Mac Mini server under Lion, using Apache as a front-end web server and SSL security.

The upgrade took around 5 minutes, and thus far, no issues.

If you are looking for a great collaboration tool, with fantastic support and regular updates, lots of built-in features and tonnes of plugins, check out Atlassian and their Confluence product.

The best part – for small businesses, just getting started, licenses begin at $10/year.

Mail’s Related Messages view

AndrewP — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:20:45 +0000

A customer just asked about the new conversation view in OS X Lion’s Mail.app.

The messages are all displayed together, and there is a link to display the related content at the bottom of each message.

There is a menu option under the View menu, “Show Related Messages”, which will put your sent items in-line.

By default, the display of related messages is fleeting — as soon as you select a message outside the thread or a different mailbox, the related messages no longer appear, even if you reselect the original message.

If you prefer Mail to display related messages all the time, no matter which message you select, choose Mail -> Preferences, click Viewing, and select Include Related Messages.

Note that this is a global setting; you can’t turn it on for just certain mailboxes or messages.

Some of this post was found on Taming OS X Lion Mail.

Useful Lion Window Keys

AndrewP — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:22:46 +0000

So… following along in Twitter yesterday, and the following tweets turned up:

Nifty little feature in Lion: hold Option and resize a window

and

do the same only hold shift.

Very nice work, Apple.

OS X Lion Server and Schools

AndrewP — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 05:33:55 +0000

Another interesting article… this time about implementing OS X Lion Server in a school, and some of the newer features incorporated in Lion Server.

Lion Server, MDM and a New Philosophy of Client Management

OS X Lion and Cisco VPN Connectivity

AndrewP — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:38:58 +0000

My mate John has written a decent article on Cisco VPN connectivity with Lion. As he didn’t have the latest Cisco VPN Client when he upgraded to Lion, this was a great “workaround”.

http://www.uprun.com/blog/2011/7/24/cisco-vpn-client-wont-work-with-lion.html

The Likability of Angry Birds

AndrewP — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 04:33:55 +0000

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/angry_birds

Lion and rebuilding your Mac

AndrewP — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 02:32:55 +0000

Saw this article this morning, originally on Slashdot, but referred to on a couple of other sites as well.

Basically, it is the SysAdmin’s method for getting Lion onto a USB stick for stand-alone reinstalls.

Article is here.

A quick theme change

AndrewP — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 01:56:49 +0000

Sorry for the inconvenience with the bad theme… I tend to only use the backend of WordPress to post content etc, and wrongly, rarely check the front page for functionality.

I have done some more digging on the old theme I was using and have switched back to the default WordPress theme for WordPress 3.2.

I will do some more updates as time allows… sorry again if you couldn’t access content, or easily find what you were looking for.

OpenVPN 2 Cookbook: a book from Packt Publishing

AndrewP — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:06:19 +0000

From the Packt website:

OpenVPN 2 Cookbook provides solutions to common OpenVPN problems. The book covers everything a system administrator needs to manage and run an OpenVPN network, from point to point networks to troubleshooting.

OpenVPN 2 Cookbook offers all the information you need to successfully manage your network. Covering all the common networks, including point to point networks, multi-client tun style networks and multi client tap style networks, this practical guide gives quick answers to common questions and problems.

Link to the Book

A book review from me will be forth-coming once I have had a chance to read and digest… check back soon!