ACDT school training courses in Boston, MA (public, in-house or online)

Create, manipulate, and distribute rich media over the internet.

This three-day course provides an introduction to preparing, enhancing, and compressing audio and video files using various Apple utilities. Students will also gain experience troubleshooting internet media solutions, and have the opportunity to define and implement an internet media solution specific to their needs. The course is taught through a combination of lecture and hands-on case study exercises, providing students w...

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This two-day class guides you through administering Final Cut Server, Apple’s powerful new media asset management and workflow automation software. Final Cut Server takes the headache out of managing large collections of media files, then extends to tracking job status, managing reviews and approvals, and automating complex sequences of tasks all in a single product designed to work seamlessly with Final Cut Studio. The course combines of lectures and hands-on case study exercises to provid...

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This five-day course builds on the foundations established in the Support Essentials v10.5 and Server Essentials v10.5 courses and is designed to empower students to meet the challenges faced by administrators deploying Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server in today’s complex and dynamic data centers. Extensive use of the command line interface reveals a deeper scope of the course’s subject material. Students learn how to become more efficient by taking advantage of the wide variety of automati...

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This three-day course focuses on solutions for deploying software, ranging from the installation of individual files to the deployment of complete system images to multiple computers. Students then apply what they’ve learned to create a full deployment plan that includes testing, hardware and software deployment, auditing and maintenance.

The course also teaches students how to create a tiered Software Update server solution, as well as about third-party solutions to supplement tools...

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This four-day course focuses on both Mac OS X as a directory service client, and Mac OS X Server as a directory server. Cross platform solutions are emphasized in both instances. In working with Mac OS X, students learn how to use network accounts and Kerberos authentication with any common directory service, such as Apple’s Open Directory, Microsoft’s Active Directory, or an industry-standard LDAP server.
In working with Mac OS X Server, students learn how to run a robust, scalable...

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