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[Brian Epstein <bepstein AT ias.edu>]

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Alan,

        Great information, thanks for responding.  We'll use the redirect
feature like you suggested and keep a close watch on 10.6 and below
devices.  People generally resist change, but we may be able to use
this to coax them on their way.

Thanks,
Brian

On 10/16/2013 04:53 PM, 
A.L.M.Buxey AT lboro.ac.uk
 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> The problem I'm running into is when you download this file in 
>> Safari, it just displays it on the screen.  You have to download
>> the file and then "import" it in Network Preferences.
> 
> because 10.6 doesnt have the required profiles function...so you
> have to manually import it. 10.7/10.8 added the 'profile' feature
> and Safari has a handler for .mobileconfig files to go along with
> that.
> 
> 10.6 is dead-end. its like trying to support Windows XP - its 2013 
> (near the end of now!) - the 10.8 upgrade is cheap(!). OSX
> Lountain Lion is like $19.99.
> 
> ..and at some point Apple will stop patching 10.6 - happy to have 
> such insecure systems on your network ready to act as a new army of
> bots?
> 
>> One last thing, is there a way to offer our Institutional
>> self-signed CA certificate from the CAT download page as another
>> option.  This
> 
> just use the re-direct feature on the eduroamCAT page to send any 
> users to your resources.
> 
> alan
> 



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