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Control caching on your network - Mac OS Tutorial
From the course: macOS for IT Administrators
Control caching on your network
- [Instructor] Caching server is a danger to your network if not planned appropriately. If people turn it on at random, they can seriously alter the way mass amounts of traffic associated with Apple's services is managed, transferred, and routed around your LAN. Many years ago, when Apple first released the caching server and macOS server, I said that I believed everyone should have a macOS server, if only for that one feature, and I still believe that was true at the time. Today, however, with the product sitting in the sharing system preferences of every Mac shipped, it is possible for the service to create mayhem for Apple updates on your enterprise network. If users turn it on at random, they can seriously alter the way massive amounts of traffic associated with Apple's services is managed, transferred and routed around your LAN. I've already showed you how to set a profile to turn caching off so users cannot enable it on…
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Local and remote administration2m 23s
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Use SSH to admin a Mac4m 11s
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Use ARD or VNC to admin a Mac2m 1s
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Understand MDM2m 51s
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Work with MDM3m 50s
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Creating profiles5m 4s
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Deploying profiles2m 9s
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Control caching on your network2m 27s
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How caching works2m 56s
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Cache server advanced administration3m 55s
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