If you get an error “No space left on device” when restoring an iOS device, check your Mac hard drive. Behind the scenes, Configurator (or Finder) will download an .ipsw to ~/Library/Group Containers/K36BKF7T3D.group.com.apple.configurator/Library/Caches/Firmware then unzip it to a temporary folder (in my case:…
This article is not intended to be exhaustive or "best practices". I only wanted to share my findings in the hope that it'll help others to save time. Please leave a comment for suggestions or ideas! In order to deploy Cisco AnyConnect on macOS, you'll need the following resources on the client: SystemExtension profile WebContentFilter profile Cisco AnyConnect XML profile Cisco AnyConnect package…
Update : have a look at the updated Apple documentation first, then come back if needed. Update 2 : Mr. Macintosh has a great video about putting Mac in DFU mode. I heard around that putting a Mac in DFU mode is a hit and miss. Well, maybe I’m lucky, but I have a 100% success rate! DFU M1 MacBook Air or Pro - my method Plug M1 Mac to host Mac using a DFU cable, such as this one . Make sure you use…
Well all I’m going to say about my new Apple Silicon (M1) Mac is that it’s even more impressive than going from spinning disks to SSD… And this is just navigating around and using business apps. I’m not even talking about Xcode, Final Cut Pro X and Adobe. I still cannot believe it. Everything is extremely fast. Even Safari feels snappier. For real. Ok, enough. If you’re looking for a version of…
I love FaceTime. The sound is crystal clear, which is important for me who learnt English as a Second Language. While I’m sure you’re well aware of how to start a FaceTime call (if not, Apple has a great video ), you may not know that you can also use links. facetime:// will start a FaceTime video call facetime-audio:// will start a FaceTime audio call You can use this in many places. I use it in…
One thing that can be quite problematic with Microsoft Intune, is that it syncs with the device every 8 hours (every 15mn the first hour) . It is usually fine, but in some scenarios you’ll want to trigger a sync programmatically. This post will walk you through how to use Microsoft Intune’s API to trigger a syncDevice from bash, using curl. I’ll show you how to configure an application on Azure…
I used to create a bogus MDM server in Apple Configurator 2 (AC2) and later re-assign the device in Apple Business Manager (ABM). This doesn’t seem to work anymore. I will see the device in ABM, re-assign it, but Erase All Contents & Settings would remove the Automated Enrollment flag from the device. I later used to get the Apple Configurator 2 URL “MDM Server URL” (available from Settings >…
Microsoft Intune supports the deployment of applications using InstallApplication . This opens the possibility to manage Mac computers with Microsoft Intune, and automatically push Munki to provide additional functionality. The process for that is outlined in How to add macOS line-of-business (LOB) apps to Microsoft Intune Make sure: Your packages are “distribution packages” and signed with a…
I found the following three ways to boot to macOS recovery in VMware Fusion, sadly they don’t all work in version 11: Add m acosguest.forceRecoveryModeInstall = "TRUE" to you .vmx file – however it doesn’t seem to work with APFS volumes Add bios.bootDelay = "5000" to your .vmx file and press CMD+R during boot – doesn’t seem to work (it opens VMware Boot Manager) Use vfuse from Joe Chilcote with an…
If you use an SSH identity to connect to remote hosts, chances are you dislike typing the passphrase over and over again (especially with GitHub). $ git pull Enter passphrase for key '/Users/fti/.ssh/id_rsa': You could certainly use an empty passphrase, but there's a better way. You can actually configure the SSH client to use your keychain instead, by creating ~/.ssh/config (I set the mode to…
I've been willing to write a blog post about Microsoft SCEP for some time, but Neil Martin already did, and there's nothing left for me to add. Yet ;-) “ If you’re using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) to deal with Windows machines in your environment, you may notice that it comes licensed with an antivirus/malware product; Endpoint Protection (SCEP), with versions for…
Microsoft OneDrive is a pretty good tool to sync OneDrive cloud storage with your Mac. It is quite similar to Dropbox, Box or Google Drive. But when you use Sharepoint, it becomes incredibly useful. You can sync your Sharepoint folders locally! This is a feature that was recently merged from OneDrive for Business. All you need is to install Microsoft OneDrive on your Mac, connect to your…
The MacAdmins slack is probably the best place to meet MacAdmins today. The community is helpful, thankful and many vendors are present and listening. General channels #ask-about-this-slack : where you can meet admins and get help on the MacAdmins slack # protips : see all posts tagged with a ProTip emoticon. #jobs-board : get and post job openings. A good tip is to set a notification for any new…
APFS now support snapshots, a feature users of Virtual Machines love and can barely live without! You can now take a snapshot from command line by typing "sudo tmutil snapshot" in the Terminal. You will then be able to browse it and restore individual files using either Time Machine GUI or the "tmutil restore" command in Terminal. Little known, the possibility to jump your computer back to a…
On Monday, October 26th, Jamf will had A few IP Addresses to the pool of Outbound Jamf Cloud IPs. If you limited access to your network (for example by using JIM), make sure you update your firewall with the new list, available here: https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/articles/409/permitting-inbound-outbound-traffic-with-jamf-cloud
If you get the following error when saving your new NSPersistentDocument: 2017-09-17 21:14:30.531466+0200 TST_NSPersistentDocument_Override_MC[57707:11669067] *** Assertion failure in -[NSVBSavePanel viewWillInvalidate:], /BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/AppKit/AppKit-1561/Nav.subproj/OpenAndSavePanelRemote/NSVBOpenAndSavePanels.m:387 2017-09-17 21:14:30.543482+0200…
On October 25th, we’ll do the first SplashBuddy Jumpstart My goal is to have you walk out of the room with a fully functional SplashBuddy install, ready to be used. If you’re coming to JNUC, please join us! If you’re not and interested, let me know on Twitter (@ftiff) or MacAdmins Slack (#SplashBuddy) and let’s organise a webex. I also encourage you to subscribe to the SplashBuddy newsletter to…
What tool do you use when you try to snoop it and find which find are being modified? Do you use Jamf Composer? fs_usage? FSEventer? Well FSMonitor might be your new best buddy. It was soft launched earlier this year. I just cannot believed I missed it. Thank you, Armin Briegel , for telling me! Well the website is complete enough that I don't need to add anything apart from some good use cases…
On October 26, 2017 at 11:30 (subject to change) I’ll give my first talk at a conference. While I loved my Macintosh Classic when I was a kid, I really started IT with FreeBSD. I loved how simple and elegant this OS was. I’m not saying it wasn’t complex and difficult to use, but the software engineers behind seemed to like simple things (as in good design). When I heard that Apple used BSD as its…
Some time ago, I made ftiff/MenuLock to help users lock the screen of their Mac with a simple key shortcut (CMD+L, like on Windows). In High Sierra, this will be native with CMD+CTRL+Q, and I will deprecate MenuLock. But this doesn't mean you cannot change the shortcut. macOS has a built-in way to change shortcuts: Open System Preferences Open Keyboard Preference Pane Go to Shortcuts tab Select…