Trials and Tribulations of an OS X Administrator
Here are links to things in my presentation at Penn State MacAdmins 2023: Fleet: https://fleetdm.comMunki: https://github.com/munki/munkiDisney Animation: https://www.disneyanimation.comFilewave: https://www.filewave.comPSU MacEnterprise mailing list: https://lists.psu.edu/archives/macenterprise.htmlRadmind: https://radmind.orgmunki-dev: https://groups.google.com/g/munki-devGoogle Code Munii site:…
I had thought I wasn t going to be able to attend or present at PSU Mac Admins this year a bummer since I love the conference and it s back in person for the first time since 2019. But some last minute developments thank you, Fleet (https://fleetdm.com) mean I will be able to [ ]
macOS Ventura should be available soon. I talked about some issues that might affect you as a Mac admin last week at MacSysAdmin Online 2022: https://www.macsysadmin.se/video/day3session7.mp4 Some Ventura topic timestamps: 18:38 Login items 22:09: Application update protections 24:00 Deferring Ventura issues
TL;DR: It looks like Munki is going to need a signed binary and an MDM-delivered PPPC/TCC config profile to continue working properly on macOS Ventura. Details Last week was Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference 2022. Among others things announced and introduced was macOS Ventura, or macOS 13. As is not unusual for macOS releases, this release [ ]
Mac admins: if you haven t already, read Anthony s article here: https://maclabs.jazzace.ca/2021/07/18/recognition-retirement-remembrance.html His well-written, well-researched thoughts inspired some thoughts of my own. It occurs to me that many of the first generation of Mac admins came from no-traditional backgrounds. This makes a bit of sense, since the Mac appealed to a new set of computer…
Official release of Munki 5.2: https://github.com/munki/munki/releases/tag/v5.2.0 Early experimental build of Munki 5.3: https://github.com/munki/munki/releases/tag/v5.3.0a1
https://github.com/munki/munki/releases/tag/v5.1.2 This is the official release of Munki 5.1.2: an update to the Munki tools.There are two changes in this release from version 5.1.1: • Code signing has been removed from files in the embedded Python framework; the existing code signing was broken because of the process making the framework relocatable. • When importing a [ ]
Find out more here: https://github.com/munki/munki/releases/tag/5.2.0RC1
Let s hope this is the last beta! https://github.com/munki/munki/releases/tag/v5.2.0b4
Check it out: https://github.com/munki/munki/releases/tag/v5.2.0b1