Recovering Filmmaker. Recovering Apple Admin. Recovering Brit.
I started a new role a few weeks ago and now I have about the same amount of experience of Box Drive. I found a few interesting things and thought I’d share them with you here. (I was chatting with Trevor Sycock of Second Son Consulting and was inspired to write this.) Box Autoupdate Normally […]
There was some discussion on the Mac Admin’s Slack this morning about macOS pkg files not deploying via ADE prestage configuration. I’ll give you the quick guide on how to avoid this first, the explanation of what I think is happening is later. EDIT: I am assuming you are correctly signing your custom pkgs with […]
Here’s five ways to improve your Jamf Pro with these weird old tips … (I apologise for the click-bait title but a certain Marcus Ransom inadvertently put the idea in my head today. “witty names for his blog posts” indeed! 😀 ) 5. Naming Conventions Name everything (policies, configuration profiles, blueprints etc) in easily readable […]
Been a while since I last posted. Here’s the quick version of what’s been happening: I don’t really want to get into the end of my time at The RealReal but those I left behind have my best wishes for the future. I am still in touch with some of my colleagues there. Family: now […]
First post in a long time: I’ve been silly busy learning lots of non Apple related stuff. However there does seem to be a need for a how to guide of sorts on how to implement Jamf’s new SSO requirements. Back in the day, you set up a SAML integration from your IdP to Jamf […]
RIP Charles. I’ve had just over a week to collect thoughts. Just going to share a couple stories involving Charles’ sense of humour as well as how smart he was. Story 1: My first appearance on the Mac Admins Podcast. Being on the receiving end of Charles’ sense of humour could be an interesting experience […]
It’s 5:20am on Saturday 24th September 2022 as I’m writing this. I’ve been up since 2:45am as I’ve been virtually attending a funeral today. How the hell did it come to this? — Not long after I moved to the USA in early 2020, I got the news that one of my friends from my […]
Wow. After much success with Jamf, then CrowdStrike I turned my attention to BeyondTrust Remote Support. How difficult could be it be? Dumb question. tl;dr here’s the github link to the finished script repo. Installing BeyondTrust Remote Support client has some .. fairly unique challenges. Let me list the ways: The deployable client is supplied […]
Before we start, I should point out that there is an easier way of dealing with this if you’re familiar with Python. Crowdstrike has the falconpy project where their entire API has been made available. I’d check that out first. I did this purely for my own education and the fact I really don’t use […]
Another useful post in the Fun and Profit series! One of the things that’s been the most difficult to deal with when running a Jamf Pro service is finding ADE devices that never get past this stage: What’s happened is the enrollment in Jamf process has failed for *reasons*, usually network but could be as […]