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If your Mac has a firmware password and you want to boot into Target Disk Mode you can’t just hold down T while the computer boots. It won’t prompt for a password or anything. To get around this I’ve been booting into systems, removing the firmware password, then booting into target disk mode. Well there is a much simpler way to do this. Hold Option while computer is booting. Enter firmware password when prompted....

Q : Does the latest version of OS X Server have print server capabilities? If I have three printers that are AirPrint compatible and would like to check whether there’s a way to pre-install drivers on a configuration file for a user to plug in to his or her Mac and all the printers be configured automatically. So, the answer to this is no. But a more round-about answer is sort of (as far as driver delivery and config), depending on your infrastructure....

I don’t normally try to foretell the future but there is one change for Mac admins that I’m pretty sure will happen: The coming of Apple File System (APFS) will mark the end of disk imaging on Macs. For those not familiar with disk imaging, a disk image is a computer file containing the contents and structure of a disk volume. Mac disk images are applied to hard drives using the Apple Software Restore (asr) command line utility to erase the destination drive and then block-copy the data from the disk image onto the destination drive....

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