Mikey (3rd from left in the above), reached out to me pre-JNUC2014 about “Thinking Big: Scaling JSS Infrastructures for the Mobile Workforce”
It was a fun panel to be a part of, many of the members on the panel had taught me so so much over the years &/or are great friends of mine.
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If you hang around on JAMFNation, you may have seen the “AutoCasperNBI – open beta” thread.
Well today, (whilst presenting at JNUC2014) I’m happy to announce the full release of AutoCasperNBI.
To all those whom helped throughout the beta, be it via JAMFNation, Twitter, ##osx-server IRC or your own blogs & posts: THANK YOU!
I hope you find the app of some use, & that we can develop it further.
For more information, go to: AutoCasperNBI
As mentioned previously, we deploy a custom Safari Toolbar with links to various sites to our Macs.
With the release of Safari 6.2 & 7.1 Apple has changed the method to install extensions, once a Mac has been updated to Safari 6.2 or 7.1 the user is prompted to “migrate” their extensions.This change breaks the previously posted method to install extensions, as the installed extensions list is now in the users Keychain (!?).
Below is how to install extensions via Self Service, which in testing works for all Safari versions & allows the user to reinstall if they recreate their login.keychain.
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We use AirWatch as our Mobile Device Management platform, & recently we launched the “Self Service Portal” to our user base.
However, we hit an issue where only a few devices were available within the “Self Service Portal”.
Below is what we found, and how we resolved this issue.
Continue readingAlmost 2 years ago, I posted how to deploy a custom Safari Toolbar. But until now I have not posted on how to make the Toolbar (READ: Extension Bar) until now.
The reason for the delay was due to me not really being literate with the technology used to create an Extension Bar, 2 years on & i’m still not!
We use the Extension Bar to deploy links to company websites & resources. As it seems most web based products we have only support Safari on a Mac, we’ve found this is a good way to drive people to use Safari to access these sites, even if they use other browsers for general browsing.
I hope the below helps you to create your own.
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Earlier today we started to tighten up one of our wireless networks, moving from PEAP to EAP-TLS authentication. In testing on 10.9.x & win7 clients, all worked well. But when deploying the same config profile that connected the 10.9.x clients to a 10.8.x Mac, the device failed to authenticate.
The 10.8.x clients console log didn’t show much information, so I took a look on the NPS servers logs (which are not a pretty sight) & after a time we came to a solution.
See below for the gory details.
We updated our JSS from 8.73 – 9.22 back in January, we thought all was well until we needed to deploy some large packages.
This lead to our network guys not being to happy as Mac clients were downloading a 200MB installer across our MPLS irregardless of the distribution points assigned in our network segments.
Below are more details on the issue, and the fix
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JAMF have a great article on deploying the binary needed to set a firmware password on 2010+ Macs via the Casper Suite, here.
I recently had a chance to play with it, but found that the below command (which is used by the following EA to check EFI Password status) often returns nothing or just 0 after running. Regardless if an EFI password is set or not.
sudo /Library/Application\ Support/JAMF/bin/setregproptool -c
So below is a different version of the before linked Extension Attribute, using “expect” & maybe a inelegant check.. but hey, if it works!
Continue readingA couple of years ago I posted on how we “Submit User Information From AD Into The JSS At Login” Since the Casper Suite 8.61 was release, the JSS has been able to perform this function. Below is a guide on how to leverage this.
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A number of my scripts leverage attributes found within an objects Active Directory record. I used to reach to either decl or Apache Directory Studio as per this article on JAMFNation in order to view this information when investigating my scripts.
However, since 10.7 (I think), I have more often found myself using Directory Utility to perform this task. the below is a quick run through on how to use it for this task.
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