I use a time machine backup to build MAC’s for our employees, saves me time on install and configurations, however our MAC users use office 2008 and require a unique key from our licensed copy. to re enter the office serial I just run the following two commands in terminal :
rm "/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/OfficePID.plist"
rm "~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2008/Microsoft Office 2008 Settings.plist"
and re launch office.
echo "umask 002" >> /etc/launchd-user.conf.
reboot
Read more about it here: apple kb
After a long day restoring my mac from backups I finally started up my virtual machines only to find out my network settings are configured wrong , I use static ip’s on my vm’s so the easy way was to just get my old settings back , here’s how:
Stop all your vm’s , exit fusion and follow the process
1. remove current settings :
cd /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/
sudo rm locations
2. rebuild config ( script does not need your answers ) :
sudo ./vmware-config-net.pl
sudo ./boot.sh –restart
3. change your ip in the locations file :
sudo vi locations
change this line ( for hostonly address )
answer VNET_8_HOSTONLY_HOSTADDR 192.168.119.1
4. apply settings
sudo ./vmware-config-net.pl
sudo ./boot.sh –restart
5. verify
ifconfig -a
My journey as a mac newbie continues, this open source tools allows me to share my FreeBSD virtual machine folder with my mac without configuring nfs or anything fancy.
best of all , its opensource …
http://www.macfusionapp.org/
