A week ago today, I presented at MacSysAdmin. Within my talk I advised of a change with the kickstart command & macOS Mojave.
Well, things have changed some. See below for more details.
Continue readingmacOS Mojave & Screen Sharing changes
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Last week I had the honour of presenting on the opening day of MacSysAdmin 2018.
It’s an amazing conference, that I would encourage all to attend.
Below are some links to my talk & all talks from MacSysAdmin 2018.
Continue readingMicrosoft Office For Mac Changes & Versioning Shenanigans
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Today, not only was Mojave released but Microsoft released Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac (sort of).
Below, I will try to explain the qualifier above & some other bits & bobs.
Continue readingManually Converting Jamf Pro Tables From MyISAM to InnoDB
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With Jamf Pro 10.6.0, Jamf changed the default storage engine from MyISAM to InnoDB.
Jamf also released a tool to convert the tables with the release of 10.7.0.
However, as the Jamf supplied tools are not available currently available as a standalone download for those of us that do manual installations & as we host our datajar.mobi instances on Kubernetes… we went the manual route.
Below is how we performed these conversions.
Continue readingBecause dataJAR, Part Deux
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Wow, it’s mid-September & this is my 1st post of the year!
Below is some reasons as to why no posts & what I’ve been up to.
Continue readingjamJAR – What, Why, How
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At a recent London Apple Admins meetup @ ITV, I gave a 15-minute (ish) version, of the 30-minute talk of the 60-minute talk on jamJAR.
Below is a link to the video of the talk, the slides in a PDF & the video of all talks from that night.
Continue readingYou Will Comply
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Me again on yet another MacAdmins.org Podcast.
This time, however, you’ll be pleased to know that I largely took a back seat & left Reza Alavi of ISACC to delve into GDPR with some interjection from myself & the MacAdmins.org Podcast as to how it can affect the Apple Admin.
Continue reading#iamroot – Oops!… I Did It Again / redux
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This post is a redux of the #iamroot vulnerability. The vulnerability was fully patched in 10.13.2, so there is nothing new here.
Secondly, this is also another excuse to post a dancing Groot gif.
#imaroot – it’s fixed, somethings broken, fixed that now too
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A couple of days ago I posted on the #iamroot vulnerability, well it’s now been fixed by Apple (yay!), but this then broke something else (boo!).
See below for a round up & some more detail on the above.
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#iamroot High Sierra Root Vulnerability
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Earlier tonight I was pointed to a tweet that seemed to show an easy manner for people on High Sierra were able to simply enable root.
Well, the vuln is real. See below for a link to a fix for the issue whilst we await Apple to push a High Sierra update.