Jamf Pro is introducing a new Jamf Cloud Distribution Point (JCDS), including an official API endpoint for uploading packages. 🎉🥳🍾🪅 This promises to provide Jamf Pro Cloud customers with a reliable method for automated package uploads. This blog post explains what you need to know in order to set up...
At the recent MacAdmins UK conference I gave a presentation about my erase-install script. The video is now available here. At the end of this presentation, I included a section on what happens when a project you share online has become popular. This section seemed to resonate with some of...
On 23 May 2023, at 12:15 PM BST, I proudly presented at the MacAdmins UK Conference, on the following topic: Erase-Install: A Tool for Upgrading and Reinstalling your Mac March 26, 2018: the release of macOS 10.13.4 introduced a new resource in the macOS installer apps that allowed us to...
Thanks to the excellent contribution of Henrik Engström (@creation on the MacAdmins Slack), there is a new AutoPkg processor in the JamfUploader suite of processors. Jamf Pro can accumulate packages quickly if you have a broad suite of applications to deploy, and when you’ve automated the upload of those packages...
When setting up my own machine, I often like to install some applications into my own User Applications folder (/Users/$currentuser/Applications). This folder does not exist by default, but is recognised as an Applications folder by macOS when created, and items within appear in Spotlight just like any app installed in...
Strange behaviour had been bugging me in the Network Pane of macOS System Preferences (System Settings since macOS Ventura) ever since the introduction of system extensions in macOS Catalina 10.15. System extensions are the replacement for kernel extensions (confusingly referred to as “System Extensions” in macOS System Preferences and in...
Many open source tools and vendor products for Mac use the softwareupdate command to check for software updates. Typically, they will use the folllowing argument: softwareupdate --list This polls Apple’s software catalogs, which normally takes a few seconds. However, many members of the Mac admin community have in recent times...
I’m a bit late with this blog post due to holidays and a family emergency, but I was very proud to appear on the MacAdmins Podcast in Episode 276, which was released on 1 August, 2022. Click here for links to the podcast episode and shownotes To celebrate, here is...
On 14 July 2022, I was once again fortunate to co-present with Anthony Reimer, this time at the MacAdmins 2022 Campfire Sessions, on the topic Demystifying JamfUploader - Taking Your Jamf AutoPkg Workflows to the Next Level. This presentation is intended to be a deeper dive and update to our...
AutoPkg, in conjunction with the JamfUploader processors, provides an automated way to import packages into Jamf Pro. For many, the package that has been imported should be tested before it is staged to production. Therefore, a common practice is for the AutoPkg .jamf recipe to create a policy that is...
