Creating a mobile account after the fact: Mac

If you need to enable a mobile account after you have already set up a user's network account (and didn't create the mobile account at first log in) do the following:

On the client, log in as the local Administrator, and in Terminal
issue the command:

sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/ManagedClient.app/Contents/
Resources/createmobileaccount -vsn myusername /my/homedirectory

The variables "myusername" and "/my/homedirectory" are specific to
the account you are working with.

If you don't want syncing enabled, the argument is -vSn

Shaky login on Mac

Normally shaky logins are caused by missing or corrupt edu.mit.kerberos files so always check that first but you might also want to look at the user's e-mail address in AD too.

We had a user who couldn’t log into any bound Mac using his AD account however he could log into a PC. On the Macs, he would get a shaky login box and a cryptic error saying “you can’t log in at this time”.

Checking his AD account I noticed that he didn’t have a secondary SMTP of @corp.ipgnetwork.com. I added the SMTP, waited for replication and then he was able to log in.

Outlook 2007 command line tools

Great set of Outlook 2007 command line tools:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/outlook/HP012185891033.aspx

Garbled Text in Entourage

Problem: Entourage displays garbled text in all fields- header, folder names and message body.

Fix: Go to /Users/[user name]/Library/Caches and delete the com.microsoft.browserfont.cache file.

Relaunch Entourage and the text should be back to normal.