Bitesize servings of technology and musings
Baseline 3.0 is Out — Here s What s New If you re not already familiar with Baseline, it s an MDM-agnostic zero-touch (or light-touch) onboarding solution for macOS from Second Son Consulting. It uses swiftDialog and (optionally) Installomator under the hood to install applications, run scripts, and display progress to the user, all driven by a configuration profile [ ]
This week Second Son Consulting released Renew v1.3 with new features and improvements from Second Son Consulting and community contributors.
Installomator is a very robust and configurable tool intended to install the latest version of a given application directly from the official source. Latest is greatest, after all, right? Latest = Greatest = YOLO But what if you need one or more computers to stay on an older version of a particular software title? Last [ ]
Last week PSU Mac Admins conference made all of their 2024 conference recordings available on YouTube. I hope you will find my talk on Installomator and swiftDialog informative and maybe even entertaining. This conference was an absolute pleasure to attend, it was very well run and the presentations were fantastic. The community truly is kind [ ]
PSU Mac Admins 2024 Github Repo PSU Mac Admins 2024 conference was a great time, and very well run. My presentation You Got Your Installomator in my swiftDialog! had a bigger turn out and better feedback than I ever could have hoped for.As part of my talk, I provided all of my example code and [ ]
A nifty and entirely unnecessary GUI tool for testing or running Installomator labels.
Today I am sharing a little utility script for Mac Admins. I often find I want to grab an icns file from an application for use in Self Service, a swiftDialog script, or a munki repo. I got tired of doing this manually, and wrote a script to programmatically grab icons and convert them to [ ]
Two new features added to Baseline this week, improving on-boarding experience for you and your users.
Last week Baseline v2.0 was released, and its got some great new feature additions aimed at making the tool even more flexible. I m excited to see folks use it in new and exciting ways. If you re not familiar yet with Baseline, it s an MDM agnostic zero touch or light touch solution for macOS. By leveraging [ ]
As a Mac Admin I find myself constantly spinning up a new Fresh VM, tinkering, and then forgetting about it. I end up with a VM Library list a mile long. I recently discovered that UTM has a command line interface, and this inspired me to write a script to quickly clone, launch, and cleanup [ ]