Adobe Admin Console Packages – 3.0

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Only 3 months ago, we announced Adobe Admin Console Packages – 2.0. Well, there have since been some changes which have required a rewrite and as new version, hence 3.0.

The primary changes are:

  • The Adobe installers are now installed locally, with the locally installed application being queried to get the required metadata.
  • Due to the above, the script AdobeAdminConsolePackagesImporter.py, now needs to be run under sudo.
  • Additionally, two new flags have been added to AdobeAdminConsolePackagesImporter.py:
    • –extract-icons: Extracts the applications icon to the recipes %RECIPE_CACHE_DIR%
    • –uninstall: Uninstalls the applications from the Mac running AdobeAdminConsolePackagesImporter.py, one the have been processed for the required metadata.
  • With macOS 15 no longer supporting bundle packages, bundle package support has been removed.
  • Recipes for 2021 and 2022 titles have been removed.

For more details on the why, see below. Otherwise head over to the ReadMe.

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Adobe Admin Console Packages – 2.0

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In June 2023, Adobe announced on that flat packages were available via the Adobe Admin Console. However, at the time these were limited to templates which would include one or more titles chosen by Adobe. Prior to this all macOS packages created by the Adobe Admin Console were bundle packages.

Fast forward to April 2024, and Adobe announced that the Adobe Admin Console now defaults to creating flat packages for macOS and the content of these packages are defined by the admin within the Adobe Admin Console.

Why does this matter? Well, bundle packages were deprecated in macOS 14.4 and if you’re testing macOS Sequoia (and you really should be), you’ll find that bundle packages are no longer supported.

A new version of our Adobe Admin Console Packages recipes and processor have been released, which add flat package support, moves the uninstall step to a script and if you import a bundle package it will set the maximum OS to 14.99. For full details, please see the readme.

If you want to know more about our Adobe Admin Console Packages recipes, please see the prior post here.

Adobe Admin Console Packages and AutoPkg

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For several years I’ve been involved in methods to deal with Adobe Creative Cloud packages via AutoPkg.

Well, due to changes to the packages contents I’ve created yet another method (which is hopefully the last one).

Details on this method can be found below, as well as a history of the various methods employed over the years.

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MacDevOpsYVR 2021: Digging for download URLs for AutoPkg recipes

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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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AutoPkg, curl & exit status 60

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Over the past weekend in #autopkg Slack channel in the MacAdmins Slack, some fellow admins saw their recipes erroring with a non-zero exit status of 60.

At dataJAR we only run our AutoPkg recipes weekdays, but sure enough we hit the same issue come Monday.

Below is some more details, as well as a proposed fix for at least the short term.

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FossHub & AutoPkg

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A few years ago FossHub’s Terms of Service (read: TOS) did not allow for automated downloads.

This has changed recently, with details on how to now download from FossHub via AutoPkg below.

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Getting All the Apps to Devices: When and How We Use Patch, AutoPkg, and VPP Together

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At this years JNUC I presented alongside a long time Jamf buddy of mine, John Miller. My part of the talk detailed the various application deployment methods currently available to the Jamf admin (VPP & AutoPkg). With some nuances detailed & some pitfalls mentioned.

John expanded upon the subject by opening up the discussion to Patch & the forthcoming 3rd party integrations.

Below is a link to the video, & links to each section with some more links as pertinent.

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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.

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Munki 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.

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Google Chrome 50 OS Requirement Changes

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Earlier today, Google Chrome 50 was released. With this release, there are some changes to the platforms that Google Chrome is supported on.

Below is some detail on this, & how it could affect you.

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