A small update this one, but I have rewritten jamJAR’s Extension Attribute in bash.
This is to avoid python prompts in macOS 12+ when running recon.
This updated Extension Attribute can be found here, and should be a drop in replacement for the prior one.
We’ve just released a little update to Jamf Switcher, bringing the app to 1.3.
This release is needed if you’re running Jamf Pro 10.30+. As the location and the format of Self Service bookmarks changed with this release from being XML files located within “/Library/Application Support/JAMF/Self Service/Managed Plug-ins/” to a single file located at: “~/Library/Application Support/com.jamfsoftware.selfservice.mac/CocoaAppCD.storedata”
Jamf Switcher will automatically switch over to this new file when present.
Last week, I had the pleasure of presenting at my first MacDevOpsYVR.
A link to the video, slide deck, GitHub repo and links to the other videos etc from MacDevOpsYVR can be found below.
Many thanks to the MacDevOpsYVR team for the great event, and yes 125 slides in 15 minutes 🙂
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Tomorrow I’ll be presenting at my first MacDevOpsYVR.
Mat and JD invited myself and fellow London Apple Admin attendee, host, speaker and MacDevOpsYVR 2021 presenter Piero, onto the MacDevOpsYVR Podcast for a chin wag.
The podcast can be found here, if you want to listen to the other folks chatting and me prattling on.
At the time of writing, tickets are still available for MacDevOpsYVR 2021 and can be purchased from here.
The schedule can be found here, and starts today June 9th.
See you there!
Yesterday, it was my honour to remotely speak at MacDeployment 2021, on the subject of Administering Apple Silicon.
And amazingly, all the talks from MacDeployment 2021 are already available online! (in fact, they were available soon afterwards).
A link to the video, slide deck, GitHub repo and links to the other videos etc from MacDeployment 2021 can be found below.
Many thanks to the MacDeployment 2021 team for the great event.
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Last month, I presented at a dataJAR tech series event where I discussed some of the new management features available in macOS Big Sur and how these can affect Mac administration workflows, as well as changes that might trip you up in regards to managing Apple silicon.
The video for the talk and a PDF of the slides, can be found here.
You’ll also find a talk there from Riley Bruce, Security Community Evangelist Manager, Code42 titled “Understanding Insider Risk Management on macOS”
As forewarned by Apple, Richard Purves and recently one of my dataJAR colleagues Richard Mallion, Apple is making a change to APNs on March 31, 2021.
As detailed within the dataJAR blog post, this change is between MDM servers and Apple and not managed devices.
Since Jamf Pro 10.23.0, there has been a toggle to enable this change to HTTP/2 for APNs communication.
However with Jamf Pro 10.28.0 release earlier this week, Jamf Pro will default to HTTP/2 and if you’re self hosting Jamf Pro this release will flip over the APNs communication to use HTTP/2.
If you’re Jamf Cloud, then this change has already been made for you.
So, this short post is just to bring attention to this change for those that need it.
And if you’d like to know more, for more info see the aforementioned blog post on the dataJAR blog.
With the recent release of iMovie 10.2.3, an additional surprise item is installed, a provisioning profile.
See below for more information on this provisioning profile, and impact.
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During JNUC 2020, dataJAR gave a couple of talks.
My talk was titled “jamJAR: Three years on”, which detailed the evolution of jamJAR and some changes made with the then soon to be released version 2.0.
Below you’ll find a link to the talks video and all other JNUC 2020 videos, a link to the talks GitHub repo and, why this blog post was been delayed.
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With Apple recently releasing macOS 11.0.1, many Mac Admins over at the MacAdmins.org Slack started to see password prompts like the above.
Some digging has revealed that this password prompt is shown when the softwareupdate binary is called, and only on Apple Silicon devices.
Calling the softwareupdate binary is something which we Mac Admins have done for years, and it’s likely folks have workflows in place calling the softwareupdate binary which is then triggering this prompt.
So, what’s the fix? Short term, don’t call the softwareupdate binary on Apple Silicon devices and raise this issue with Apple.
Longer term? Unsure. There is still documentation around Apple Silicon devices to be posted by Apple, and until we have documentation we can but guess.