Soon Microsoft are to release an update to the Office 2016 Volume License installer on VLSC.
This update is 15.17 & is the first that has a few changes that may affect the way you deploy Office 2016.
These changes are going to be later enforced in 15.20 & onwards. Below are some details on the changes, some of the why & how via the power of the MacAdmins.org Slack & the awesome @pbowden that some of us have had a sneak peek.
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I’ve blogged a few times about how to not only create, but also deploy & update “Safari Extensions”.
With the release of Safari 9 Apple have stopped all automated deployment methods, & I’m partly to blame.
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If you manually download a Configuration Profile from the JSS, you’ll see that the profile largely reads as gobbledegook.
Luckily a couple of bash commands later & you’ll have a readable profile.
Way back in Jan 2014 grabbed a test iPhone & after charging I was greeted with the above.
After various exclamations along the lines of “Holy fishsticks, Batman!” we did get the iPhone enabled & this did not involve a time machine or me waiting the 23,053,554 minutes for the device.
Below is how & some guess work as to what happened.
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Early today people launching some Mac App Store purchased apps where greeted with errors upon launching them.
This has been pretty widely reported, & after reading a few other articles I started to panic. After which I wanted to try see how this would affect us Mac admins & if I could help detect affected apps.
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Sometimes being an Apple admin in an org with a largely Microsoft infrastructure can be a bit of a chore.
It’s not uncommon to hear of Windows admins dismissing issues as being an “Apple” issue without actually expending any effort to look into the issues at all.
However, I’ve been fortunate in that I’ve been able to bend the ear of several sympathetic Windows admins & this has lead to posts such as “How To: Check Your Active Directory Domains Time” & “OSX & AD Certificate Requests, some tips”.
This post is another of those ilk & one that came up quite recently in the MacAdmins.org Slack & I mentioned this in my JNUC 2015 talks Q&A too, thought it would be a good time to share.
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When trying to bring 10.11 support to AutoCasperNBI & AutoImagrNBI I stumbled across an odd issue.
On the flight to JNUC2015 I loaded up my 10.11 GM VM & figured it out.
Incredulous, I double checked this with James Ridsdale, Darren Wallace & David Acland. All of whom were located near me on the flight & all had their various MacBooks out running Keynote, Terminal &/or were running VM’s (spot the IT Crowd).
Below is what I found, steps to reproduce & a link to the bug on Open Radar.
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This issue of “AD users losing Admin rights when off the Domain” is a wee head scratching moment that comes up from time to time.
Having recently updated the script I use workaround this issue, I decided it was time for a blog post.
The script, an explanation of the script & the issue itself are detailed below.
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At the recent JAMFNation User Conference (JNUC2015) I gave a talk titled “Let’s Talk About Certificates” (original title, “Let’s Talk About Certs, Baby!).
The talks subtitle, “A tale of Alice, Bob, Eve & a stretched analogy…” gave some warning that things may go off base for a talks which main content, trying to demystify certificates, was rather dry.
PKI was the main talking point as well as some of the changes coming from the CA/Browser Forum, iOS 9 & El Capitan as well as a new CA on the block coming soon.
Links to the video as well as a PDF of the Keynote & some extra resources can be found below.
I’d urge you to spend 30 minutes watching the video. I had a lot of fun putting it together & the feedback I’ve had is that is was funny & informative.
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Recently we found that the JSS was setting our clients Software Update Catalog URL to http://:/index.sucatalog.
Well, as detailed previously, we moved from using Software Update servers to Caching.
The move to caching servers actually meant I shot myself in the foot some & caused my own issue. JAMF Support got me things sorted & below is how & my guess work as to what was happening.
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