Keith Adams confirmed at tip that suggests you can fix Lion problems with .local Active Directory domains by disabling DNS multicast:

Our issue was resolved by disabling MultiDNS broadcast. This tip worked like a champ for us! I had been struggling with the issue since 10.7 came out. Now this fix has resolved the issue of not being able to login as network users on 10.7 machines. We could always bind but not use network accounts. THANKS!!! We were running 10.7.2 on workstations and WS 2008 r2 on the DC. One odd thing was that when I did an upgrade install from snow leopard to Lion when it first came out everything worked fine for existing network accounts but new accounts could not be added.

If you've tried this

Related: Lion and File Sharing Tips and Reports

Eric Carr adds another scanner to the list of network scanners that Lion doesn't work with:

I have run into this same issue with a Konica BizHub C351. I upgraded a server to Lion over this past weekend and lost the ability for it to scan to an SMB share. I had to download an FTP server and set it up on the server to get the Scan to FTP option in the BizHub working.

If you have a network scanner or multifunction printer/scanner that Lion doesn't like

Andrew Hahn added to our list of reader's favorite Entourage features that are missing from Outlook Mac:

I really do miss the travel time. While I can always make the appointment with the travel time included, I liked knowing when I absolutely needed to be there without having to re-guesstimate the travel buffer that I think I might have used to help make me more likely to be there on time.

Softhing has released Entourage Email Archive X 6.1.0 (US $30), an update to the Mac OS X utility that archives email and attachments received or sent using Microsoft Entourage 2008 and Web Services Edition (WSE). The update fixes some bugs running in Lion and makes some general improvements. Archives are searchable with Spotlight. Individual emails can be put back into Entourage with a simple drag and drop.

Congressional sponsors and supporters of two anti-piracy bills quickly became opponents after some of the Internet's biggest web sites went dark or protested the bill at their sites yesterday over concerns of censorship.

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate are supported by the entertainment industry, pharmaceutical companies and other heavy hitters, but the Internet giants Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, and others prevailed yesterday. On just one day, 18 senators, some of them sponsors, have dropped support or come out against PIPA. Several House members did the same with SOPA......Read entire story here

Ricoh is aware of the problem that MacWindows readers have been reporting about Lion not being to scan to network printer/scanners. A reader thinks Apple is also aware of it.

A Ricoh support article recommends using scan-to-FTP:

Information for "Scan-to-SMB" and "Fax Folder Transmission (SMB only) & Fax Forwarding (SMB only)" support

Due to architectural changes in Mac OS X 10.7, both "Scan-to-SMB (Scan to Folder via SMB command)" and "Fax Folder Transmission (SMB only) & Fax Forwarding (SMB only)" can't be used......Read entire story here

Brendan McKitrick in London wrote responded to a recent tip about old coman name service (DNS) records slowing SMB file browsing in Mac OS X:

Regarding Gary James' report and fix here [TIP: Slow Mac SMB browsing caused by DNS records for deceased domain controller].

That was EXACTLY the issue with our domain ; our IT provider forgot to remove the DNS reference for our old, decommissioned AD server. Once all references were removed, Mac SMB browsing has dramatically improved. Very happy to have found his tip and have this resolved!

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Wikipedia said it will shut down the English version of its online encyclopedia for 24 hours starting tomorrow, in protest of two controversial bills in the US Congress. The bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate, would lead to the censorship of web site and web development tools, according to critics.

In a press release, Wikipedia said, "If passed, this legislation will harm the free and open Internet and bring about new tools for censorship of international websites inside the United States."......Read entire story here

The Enterprise Device Alliance (EDA) today announced that Parallels has joined the group of companies that provide solutions for integrating Macs and iOS devices into Windows-based networks. Parallels will be promoting its enterprise virtualization offerings, Parallels Desktop for Mac Enterprise Edition and Parallels Mobile, at the upcoming MacIT conference in San Francisco, on January 26 and 27. The Enterprise Device Alliance offers information, market data, and access to solutions that support heterogeneous environments. The other EDA member companies are Absolute Software, Centrify, Code 42 Software, GroupLogic, and Web Help Desk.

CodeWeaver has released CrossOver Games 10.3.0, a maintenance release of the software that enables Mac OS X to run Windows application natively, without the use of the Windows operating system. The update includes patch fixes for World of Warcraft, among others. The standard CrossOver, which is optimized for running Windows business applications, is still at version 10.2.0. The update is free for customers with and active support entitlement.

CodeWeavers also said that it is working on its next major version, CrossOver 11, for both CrossOver standard and CrossOver Games. The update will include a new version of the engine, Wine 1.4. The company said the new version will include a number of improvements in performance, graphics, and audio.

If you've tried CrossOver

Paul Martin says that turning SMB sharing off and on in Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6.8) can enable Windows clients to connect to the Mac:

I have a Mac setup using Snow Leopard (latest version) with a shared 3 TB drive. This Mac is in a Windows SBS 2008 environment. I have setup a shared Z drive on all the PCs that connect to the Mac. This works great, most of the time, but some Clients (XP, Vista, and Windows 7) cannot sometimes connect to the Mac, while other PCs are unaffected.

The way to solve this problem is go to the Sharing Control Panel on the Mac. Switch off SMB sharing then switch it back on and the PC client now connects to the Mac. The only issue with this workaround is that if any client is connected to a file using something like InDesign they need to restart InDesign as it loses connection to the file and won't reconnect.

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Related: Snow Leopard File Sharing Tips and reports

Stuart Russell confirmed a suggestion for fixing a problem with Windows 7 wireless networking in Boot Camp:

After trying every fix I could find on the Internet, your article "Another fix for Win 7 wireless net problem in Boot Camp" worked perfectly on Snow Leopard running Boot Camp 3.3 on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. Thanks, you saved me from a massive headache.

Related: Boot Camp and Snow Leopard Tips and Reports; Boot Camp and Lion Tips and Reports

A new Apple new tech article describes a new feature in iOS 5, using S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) with Exchange 2010 for public key encryption and signing of MIME data. The article describes how do deal with three problems with iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touch and S/MIME Exchange mail:

• Signed and encrypted messages sent from Outlook 2010 to iOS 5 do not appear signed
• Signed and encrypted message replies and forwards sent by iOS 5 do not appear signed and encrypted
• Signed messages sent by iOS 5 do not appear signed

If you've tried some of these procedures

Related: iPhone/iPad and Exchange Server Tips and Reports

After years of indifference towards the enterprise, Apple is expected to make corporate deployments of the company's products a priority in 2012 under new CEO Tim Cook. According to a recent New York Times article, the former COO is familiar with the needs of enterprise IT and much more willing to court large corporate customers than was Steve Jobs. This change, however, won't happen overnight, leaving it to IT administrators to find ways to integrate growing numbers of Apple devices in enterprise.

Not only are large businesses and institutions purchasing more Apple products, but their employees are increasingly using their own Apple devices at work......Read entire story here

Eric Novikoff followed up his previous report about Mac OS X 10.7 Lion problems accessing network printer/scanners (in his case, a Ricoh multifunction):

This entire episode is a disaster, since the scanner failure can be duplicated simply by trying to connect to a Mac from Windows via SMB. Nearly 9 months after Lion came out I would have expected this solved, but neither AppleCare nor the web seems to offer a solution. But the scariest part was the Level 2 AppleCare people telling me I shouldn't mix Windows machines (in this case a Ricoh multifunction machine that also has SMB running on it but not Windows) with Macs. I felt as though I was talking to someone on LSD. If that's really Apple's position, despite years of trying to build legitimacy as a highly interoperable OS, I'll be going back to Windows forthwith, because I can't live without my peripherals...

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Eric Novikoff commented on Lion problems with Ricoh network scanners:

I saw your postings and can report success with switching to FTP. However I do have security concerns and am pressing Apple for a solution that will allow inbound SMB connections to start working again.

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Rob is another read with problems using Lion to access a HP 4215 printer/scanner over a network. His problem is a bit different than the previously reported problem with this unit:

Trying to add the printer over Bonjour (LION OS) and says software not available _ contact the manufacturer. The HP site doesn't give out the drivers there; It says it's all through Apple Software Update.

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John LeMoncheck is another reader seeing slow performance with Outlook 2011 when switching to contacts:

I want to report the same issue that I have seen on your website about slow switching to the Contacts pane in Outlook 2011 for Mac. I have about 3400 contacts and whenever I switch to Contacts it takes about 5 seconds to be usable (spinning wheel if I try to do anything). This is a real issue for me as I am constantly going back and forth from mail or calendar view to contacts.

If you've seen this problem

George Vitta can no longer access Exchange with his iPhone:

After upgrading iPhone OS to 5.0.1, Exchange mail no longer being received.

If you've seen this problem

Related: iPhone/iPad and Exchange Server Tips and Reports

Gary James responded to the report "DNS/kerberos setting workaround for slow SMB browsing" with a DNS solution of his own for slow SMB browsing. After some detective work, he found DNS servers in his Active Directory network pointing to a domain controller server that no longer existed:

Having tried Kyle Rabe's tip and Ricardo's tip and hours of digging through /var/log, and numerous other things, I figured out why our SMB browsing was so slow. When I went to go look at our new Active Directory controller and DNS server for the DNS entries in DNS that Jelmer Jaarsma mentioned I found references to our old ill-fated AD SBS server.......Read entire story here

Samuel Litt reported that the problem of not being able to log in using a local account to a Mac running Lion is not limited to Macs in Active Directory environments:

I've seen this issue manifest independently of systems bound to AD and OD. At login, user accounts will no longer be displayed in the list of users mode or recognized via name and password input mode. Interestingly enough, user accounts are displayed correctly within the Apple Password Reset Utility while launched via the Terminal (resetpassword) from the Recovery partition. However, a password reset provides no meaningful relief, nor does repairing permissions, resetting user directory ACLs, or repairing the volume via Mac OS X's Disk Utility application.......Read entire story here

David Morgenstern of ZDNet posted this news:

A study announced just before the new year says that 75 percent of small and medium businesses plan to purchase tablet computers in 2012. What the buyers really mean by "tablets" is Apple iPad.

The results can be found in NPD Group's Q3 SMB Technology Monitor. For the survey, SMB was defined as businesses with fewer than 1,000 employees, and NPD said that the "average investment" would exceed $21,000.....Read entire story here