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Before upgrading, backup UTS database. To do this, Log into Server Administration. Then Go to Datastore > Backups and click “Backup now”. Go to /Applications/Extensis/Universal Type Server/data/backups. Copy or move the latest backup to a safe place.

You will need to Uninstall UTS 4 before installing UTS 5.
1. Go to /Applications/Extensis/Universal Type Server/applications
2. Double-click to launch Universal Type Server Uninstaller.pkg and go through the wizard to uninstall UTS.
3. in the Applications Folder, move the the Extensis folder to the trash.
4. Go to /Library/ remove the Extensis folder.
5. Go to /Library/Preferences/ remove anything that starts with com.extensis.

I’m not a fan of the new Disk Utility in El Capitan.  I had a drive with 3 partitions and I needed to make it a single partition drive. Disk Utility would not allow me to delete one of the partitions no matter what I tried.

So I used the following Terminal command:



diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk2 GPT JHFS+ New 0b

To break it down:

1.  diskutil - is a command line tool used for formatting disks.

2.  patitionDisk -  is an option that can be used in diskutil.

3.  /dev/disk2 -  is the location of the disk that you want to format.  You can use the diskutil “list” option  to find this information.

4.  GPT -  is the GUID Partition Table.

5.  JHFS+ - is the default filesystem type that OS X uses.

6.  New - This is the name of the partition.  You can name it whatever you like.

7.  0b - This tells the command to use all available free disk space.

With the introduction of OS X 10.11 El Capitan the Disk Utility.app no longer offers the option to "Repair Disk Permissions".

With the introduction of System Integrity Protection (SIP), in theory this is no longer necessary.

Enable the Managed Client Debug Log for OS X

Launch Terminal.app

Type the following commands:

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.MCXDebug debugOutput -2

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.MCXDebug collateLogs 1

sudo touch /var/db/MDM_EnableDebug

* Log is written to: /Library/Logs/ManagedClient/ManagedClient.log

Re-enroll a Mac into the Device Enrollment Program (DEP) without erasing

Launch Terminal.app


Type the following commands:

sudo rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone

sudo rm -rf /var/db/ConfigurationProfiles/

sudo rm /Library/Keychains/apsd.keychain


Restart the Mac and re-enroll via DEP