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As Senior System Engineer at HCS, Keith wears many hats.  He is responsible for a myriad of duties at HCS.  From project management to taking out the trash, Keith is always willing to do the job at hand and never afraid to get his hands dirty.

Keith has the drive and ability to take a project full circle. He is obsessive when it comes to documentation and communication.  He is a self-starter with the ability to think fast on his feet.

Keith has over 20 years in the IT Industry specializing in Apple Technology.  He’s been a member of the HCS family since 2008.

Mar
18

Checking Unicast and Multicast DNS Cache Details in OS X Yosemite

Get UDNS cache stats:

sudo discoveryutil udnscachestats


Get multicast DNS cache:

sudo discoveryutil mdnscachestats

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Mar
16

How to clear the local DNS cache OS X 10.5 - 10.10

OS X Yosemite 10.10

Clear MDNS (Multicast DNS) and UDNS (Unicast DNS)

sudo discoveryutil udnsflushcaches

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Dec
04

How to send Ctrl-Alt-Del to a Windows 2012 server from a Mac Keyboard

How-to-send-Ctrl-Alt-Del-from-a-Mac-Keyboard_20141204-173712_1.pdf

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Nov
08

Create Hidden Users in OS X Yosemite

The following commands are used to create hidden users in OS X Yosemite:

Hide the user:

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Oct
27

How to remove persistent dock apps in OS X Yosemite

In previous versions of os x, you would find a file named com.apple.dockfixup.plist located in /Library/Preferences.  In OS X Yosemite, that file was moved to:

/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/com.apple.dockfixup.plist

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Oct
09

Enable the function keys from the command line

Enter this command:

defaults write -g com.apple.keyboard.fnState -boolean true

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