Another year, another macOS release & another update to AutoCasperNBI & AutoImagrNBI.
Details of the updates can be found below, as well as the sadness.
jamf + AutoPKG + Munki
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Last night I spoke about jamJAR at the April 2017 University of Utah, MacAdmins Meeting.
This talk goes a little more into the “why” we went the jamJAR & some in-use examples.
Below is a link for the video as well as a link for the meeting.
Continue readingMunki and Patch – A Comparison
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Earlier this year, James Ridsdale & myself presented at macad.uk a talk called “Munki and Patch – A Comparison”.
Below are links from the talk.
The talk itself contained some details on Jamfs forthcoming Patch & our solution leveraging open source tools with Jamf for “patch management”, jamJAR.
Continue readingADPassMon is dead, long live NoMAD
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3 years ago today, I announced my fork of ADPassMon. But time has now come to send ADPassMon out to pasture & allow the new kid on the block, NoMAD to take the throne.
Below is a brief history of ADPassMon & why now seems the right time to do this.
Demystifying Apple School Manager
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At a recent London Apple Admins, I gave a talk titled “Demystifying Apple School Manager”.
The talks video, the presentation & the links mentioned can be found below.
Continue readingLive at JNUC!
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Whilst at JNUC2016, I was offered the opportunity to join an episode of the MacAdmins.org Podcast.
It was a fun experience, & I hope to return on a more structured episode one day.
Links to that episode can be found below, as well details on the MacAdmins.org Podcast.
Continue readingProfiles: An IT Admin’s Best Friend
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At JNUC2016, I presented alongside my colleague James Ridsdale. The talk gave a history of Apple management, from Managed Preferences to Configuration Profiles. Attempted to deep dive into how Configuration Profiles work, advise on some idiosyncrasies & some workflows available when using an MDM.
A link to the talks video can be found below, as can the resources for the talk & links to twitter for the talks hashtags: #jnuc2016faff #imtoosexyformcx
Continue readingThe Great (caching) Purge
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Earlier tonight, myself & a few others on the #osx-server channel in the macadmins.org Slack started to receive alerts from our macOS Servers running a Caching Service.
Sadly, it was not just the harmless “Caching service unavailable” alerts that you see at times.
Continue readingAutoCasperNBI & AutoImagrNBI 1.3.4, Sierra compatible & other changes
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Earlier today, I released AutoCasperNBI & AutoImagrNBI 1.3.4. Both of these are now Sierra compatible as well as signed.
For more information about the changes to these apps, see below.
iCloud, Spotlight & Login Window issues with JSS 9.9+ & the Security & Privacy profile payload
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Recently, myself & a few folks have been dealing with issues from profiles deployed via the JSS.
Kitzy has a workaround for the issues affecting 9.82 & screen savers asking for passwords, here.
This was seemingly fixed in 9.9, but other issues have since cropped up & I’ve detailed them below.
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