figuring IT out
Elevator pitch I m excited to introduce two plist tools for macOS plb the plist broker and plx the plist extractor. The value of plb is its ability to visualize a plist as you will see below, just like my tool jpt does for JSON. plb can map out the complete paths and values that may [ ]
So here s the situation: You have a Mac mini that s used as a Zoom Room controller. You ve enabled automatic login. You don t want the screensaver to come on ever and it should never ask for a password if the screen is turned off. This is a common ask and used to be really simple. You d [ ]
Or rather should I say, Do you know when they are ? Tell me, Mac Admins, has this ever happened to you: You need to figure out when a computer last submitted inventory to Jamf. Seems easy, right? Just use the built-in Last Inventory criteria, right? Well, if you use the API to update computer records [ ]
UPDATE: Heads up, either by shear coincidence or my salty appeal to not play hide and seek, the ability to detect Apple Intelligence will no longer be found in the binary plist data of com.apple.gms.availability.key in the user s .GlobalPreferences domain on macOS 15.4 and up. I ve updated my GitHub script OS-Apple Intelligence Availability.sh and I ve [ ]
It s been a busy 2 weeks since Apple released macOS Sequoia! One of the new features is private Wi-Fi addresses aka MAC address randomization . While this all well-and-good and can improve your privacy , it has been causing headaches for folks in the environments where random MAC address are not a good thing. Now, Apple did [ ]
My new tool clui, pronounced clue-ee offers Command Line Unicode Info with the ability to export to a variety of formats like CSV, JSON, YAML, RTF and more. While I ve written a few macOS command line tools geared to the Mac Admin like jpt the JSON power tool, ljt the little JSON tool, shui for [ ]
Computers are the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds as Steve Job once said. Sure enough, like a bicycle, they also require maintenance! Sometimes that requires soliciting the user to take action. Asking at the right time is very important (see my post Don t Be a Jerk) and so is brevity. I ve found a [ ]
Every year Mac admins wonder which Macs will make the cut for the new MacOS. While it s no mystery which models those are, if you ve got Jamf you ll be wondering how to best scope to those Macs so you can perhaps offer the upgrade in Self Service or alert the user to request a new [ ]
Lockdown mode is new feature for macOS Ventura and for many MacAdmins we ve been wondering how to detect this state. Why? Lockdown mode affects how macOS and Mac apps behave. This is something a helpdesk might like to know when trying to troubleshoot an issue. Also, due to some ambiguous wording by Apple, they made [ ]
Adobe Creative Cloud app can get in weird state that blocks users from seeing their apps. The official solution from Adobe is to delete the file /Library/Application Support/Adobe/OOBE/Configs/ServiceConfig.xml and restart Adobe CC, however in the real world you need to sign out and sign back in for the fix to take effect. The folks in [ ]