On the last day of this years JNUC, it was my honour to be included in a panel titled “Patch Solutions on the Jamf Marketplace” (the content of which is pretty self explanatory) alongside Armin Briegel, Ryan Ball and Sam Weiss.
See below for a link to the panels video, as well as links to the marketplace entries for the items discussed.
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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.
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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Other the past month, all of the dataJAR open source projects have received updates.
See below for details on these updates.
Continue readingEDIT: 1.5.1 released, removing the option to not post notifications for items with a category due to the category not always being written to the ManagedInstallReport.plist when installed. A PR to Munki will be needed to resolve, then this can be re-added.
Tonight brings an update to jamJAR. This update adds an option to not post notifications for items with a category & also adds support for the forthcoming dataJAR Notifier.app (to post banner & alert notifications as needed).
This is the last Python 2 release of jamJAR, the next release will utilise Munki’s shipping Python 3 & will also officially support Apple updates via Munki & the new workflows introduced Munki 5.
At a recent London Apple Admins meetup @ ITV, I gave a 15-minute (ish) version, of the 30-minute talk of the 60-minute talk on jamJAR.
Below is a link to the video of the talk, the slides in a PDF & the video of all talks from that night.
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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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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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