I presented at the Texas Apple Admins Virtual Meetup on YAML-formatted AutoPkg recipes, covering how native YAML recipes work and linking to the recorded talk, slides, and related blog post.
AutoPkg 2.3 adds native YAML recipe support, making recipes easier to read, write, and manage. This post also covers YAML overrides, conversion tools, and caveats for mixed plist and YAML repos.
Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop can report different versions on Intel and Apple Silicon from the same package due to architecture-specific patching; Jamf admins must account for both versions in policy logic.
My first post for a few months, and apologies in advance as it’s a long one… I’ve made a new set of AutoPkg processors for importing packages to Jamf Pro. After some testing, I have now begun writing and using new recipes to replace the .jss recipes we have been...
One of the major limitations of Jamf Pro in comparison to Munki when it comes to software deployment is the lack of ability to compare version strings between what is installed on a Mac client and what is available in the software repository. Munki can determine whether the installed version...
I had a rude awakening during an upgrade process, where I decided to upgrade my Test and Prod AutoPkg Runner Mac minis from Mojave to Catalina. Though my AutoPkg needs are relatively simple and standard, I’ve been using a locally installed Jenkins service on both computers to run AutoPkg, mainly...
Since OS X 10.11, OS X / macOS installer applications have had the startosinstall command line tool bundled in it. My presentation at the Texas Apple Admins Virtual Meetup last month went into the history of the command, and the available command line options. The currently documented options are as...
I came across an interesting phenomenon regarding Automated Device Enrollment (DEP) and macOS’s Setup Assistant that I hadn’t considered before, while investigating a problem on some managed Mac computers. I’m not sure if it’s widely known or not, but since I didn’t know it, perhaps others are also not aware....
I was honoured to join illustrious presenters at the Texas Apple Admins Virtual Meetup today, 5 May 2020, to talk about multiple uses for my erase-install tool. The presentation was not be recorded live, but I have recorded it separately, and it is available here: The slides are also be...
If you manage multiple Jamf Pro instances, you may be used to using the Jamf Pro “Classic” API to copy endpoints between them. I help manage over 30 Jamf Pro instances, and I use the API in scripts to duplicate items from a Template instance to all the customer instances....
