Reflecting on my time as a Mac Admins Slack admin, I look back on community stewardship, the challenges of AI and data scraping, and why human conversations remain the heart of the community.
JamfUploader and JamfCLIRunner can now skip processors based on predicates, reducing recipe duplication and enabling conditional Jamf workflows for different policy and group combinations.
Apple's new Keynote, Numbers, and Pages apps include premium subscription features that can confuse managed users. This post shows how to suppress premium prompts and hide those features using managed preferences in Jamf Pro and other MDMs.
AutoPkg Wizard is a new open source SwiftUI app for AutoPkg users, offering a more user-friendly way to manage recipes, preferences, scheduling, and arguments without interfering with your command-line workflow.
Plist-Yaml-Plist has been rewritten in Swift as a signed, notarized binary that converts PLIST, YAML, and JSON files with the same functionality as the existing python tool, including batch conversion and tidy formatting for AutoPkg recipes.
JamfUploader now supports Jamf Platform API Gateway credentials and jamf-cli profiles, enabling secure authentication for Jamf Pro and related services while remaining backward compatible.
jamf-cli provides a simple, cross-platform way to interact with Jamf Pro, Protect, and Platform APIs, while JamfCLIRunner brings that power into AutoPkg workflows for reproducible, conditional Jamf automation.
A quick way to remove signatures from downloaded Jamf profiles is to create a Finder Quick Action using a shell script. The catch - Finder needs Full Disk Access for the shortcut to work.
Monolithic Jamf configuration profiles can conflict with compliance baselines and other payloads. This post explains how to identify duplicate keys, dissect and replace legacy profiles, and migrate to safer custom payloads or blueprints.
