MacTech Group
MacTech Meeting Agendas
MacTech - The NC State Campus Apple Support Group
The MacTech group exist on the NC State campus to deal with Macintosh and Apple Technology related issues.
The group was chartered in July 1998 and has met continuously since.
What is the MacTech group and who can attend?
MacTech is a group open to any NC State University community member with IT-related technical support and planning responsibility for a unit (e.g., department, program, college). This group meets to train, discuss technical and security issues and make suggestions to OIT as to direction and desired outcome for any changes regarding Apple Technology. MacTech is a working group of the NC State IT Advisory Groups. In general, this group meets the second Tuesday of every month in B16-B Hillsborough Building at 2:30 pm and viturally as announced. The steering and oversight of this group is considered by OIT but is not binding.
Visit the MacTech meeting archives at https://go.ncsu.edu/mactech
A mail list for this group is available in Google Groups under mactech.
Join at: https://groups.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/forum/?hl=en#!forum/group-mactech/join
macOS Licenses
There is no free site license for macOS at NC State. Apple offers the latest version of macOS at no cost as upgrade in the Apple App Store.app located in the Applications folder on all devices running 10.6.8 or newer.
Best Practices Before Any macOS Upgrade:
Read the info on compatibility with your software:
macOS: About incompatible software –
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3258?viewlocale=en_USAlways back up your data.
Make a good and complete backup with Time Machine and/or make a copy of your disk with Disk Utility.
How to back up and restore your files:
Time Machine 101 – http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427Understand how to restore your backup (you did make that backup!) before you start.
How to back up and restore your files – http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427Make sure that all software updates have been completed before upgrading.
Repair the startup disk with Disk Utility before upgrading and after upgrading.
Download the latest macOS install application from the App Store and install.
