![]() We have stumbled across another issue however, with VPN connections over mobile internet (3/4G) but I don't think that's restricted to Mavericks. We only just got around to finding a suitable fix for our Cisco An圜onnect in Mavericks. Which is something a bit out of my scope. Our AV also doesn't run on Mavericks (at least it didn't cause a kernel panic like it did when Mountain Lion first came out), and that will also probably involve a backend upgrade. I haven't tested the Mavericks-killing-SMB-permissions bug yet, but to be honest I don't know if I want to. Of course, it's the server with the most important shares. The only way I've found to fix it, is to reboot. On my test Mac running Mavericks, it will drop Samba connections after about a day or 2 use and not reconnect, even if I try using CIFS. ![]() Other Research applications which reads from the system proxy (ie: not manually specified in the application settings) also works intermittently.īeing a Windows environment, we have a lot of Samba shares. I haven't tested manual proxy configuration yet, but basically some stuff seems to ignore the proxy and tries to connect DIRECT. We get our proxy configuration via a PAC script. I haven't fully tested Mavericks yet, because I've purposefully been holding out until an update comes out which hopefully fixes some stuff. Well, we're running Macs in a Windows/AD environment, so it's always been a bit of a square-peg-in-a-round-hole situation. about whether or not its suitable for a given environment. But I guess it all depends on the products you use, or don't use, etc. And Microsoft Lync, which we're in the process of moving to from OCS, has a few issues with Mavericks (see the thread here on the forum about that) Outside of this, only recently Cisco released a compatible An圜onnect VPN Mac client, and again, that needs to be thoroughly tested, etc. We can't release Macs without A/V, for as much as I dislike anti-virus products, so there's that. Some back end stuff needs to be upgraded to support this new version, so that kind of sucks, because it means a lengthy change review process before we can move forward with it. Our A/V product still isn't fully compatible with Mavs yet, although a new version is being tested by our security division. I can only speak for ourselves, but in our case, while we don't find Mavericks "unsuitable" there is one show stopper currently and a few smaller issues we're waiting on fixes for. At least then we have a time buffer before we're forced to start buying the new model. Our tactic the last couple of years has been to do just what you stated - try to anticipate these moves and tell our vendors to stock up on existing hardware prior to any new announcements, assuming we can make such a prediction, but Apple's product events are becoming a bit more predictable, so that's not so hard. Then its a pain because there is extremely little time to vet and prepare for inclusion of the new OS. Generally speaking this isn't too big a deal, except in cases lille this when a new OS releases simultaneously with new hardware. Going backwards even one point release or, heck even to a standard release of that same build version, has become a non option. Now, the only thing that will boot any Mac is the OS and build it ships with and higher. Used to be that there was a reasonable expectation that a retail copy of OS X on DVD (remember those? :) ) would boot most recent hardware. Part of that is because of additions to OS X that make it far easier for Apple to justify this practice, such as Recovery HD and Internet Recovery options. But yeah, for a number of years now its been the way it currently is. If not a full version back then at least with the previous point release. Given I go back to pre OS X days managing Macs, I can recall a time in the early OS X days when new hardware often worked with the previous version of OS X. I guess it depends on what you mean by "for a while now" If one is a recent addition to the world of managing Apple's devices, then its true that its been this way, possibly from the beginning based on that perspective.
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