Author: robjschroeder
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Automated Device Enrollment and Setup Your Mac version 1.8.1
Setup Your Mac is a fantastic project that gives end-users a great dialog to let them know what is going on with their Mac as organizational apps are being installed. This dialog added onto Automated Device Enrollment is an awesome replacement to a legacy DEPNotify onboarding workflow. Recently, SYM has had some amazing features added,…
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Guide: Creating a Signed Certificate
As a Mac admin, you may come across a time that you need to deliver a package during a PreStage enrollment. To make this possible, the package must be signed or the installation will fail. In this guide we will walk through creating a signed certificate that can be used to sign a package with…
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Getting Started With S.U.P.E.R.M.A.N.
Software Update Policy Enforcement (with) Recursive Messaging And Notification — just in case you wanted to know what the acronym meant. Huge shoutout to Kevin M. White (https://github.com/Macjutsu) for his application super. Super allows Mac Admins to have a workflow to both encourage and enforce macOS software updates for both Intel and Silicon Macs. In…
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Set Up Your Mac and Automated Device Enrollment
“Setup Your Mac aims to simplify initial device configuration by leveraging swiftDialog and Jamf Pro Policy Custom Events to allow end-users to self-complete Mac setup post-enrollment” Dan Snelson has used Bart R’s swiftDialog to create the next evolution in notifying end-users about current progress while their Mac gets its initial configuration. Huge shoutout and thanks…
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Jamf Pro – Keep Chrome Updated Part 2
I posted a while about regarding keeping Google Chrome updated in an automated fashion that used the Jamf Pro API to help get things set up. While this works, it does get a bit wonky when you need to change the policy that runs your Installomator script since the Smart Group uses the criteria ‘Latest…
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Jamf Pro API – Creating Accounts & Groups
To continue on my series of building a populated Jamf Pro server utilizing as much of the Jamf Pro API as possible, we will be building out our Jamf Pro Users & Groups. I have a folder in a Github repo with examples of how each option for the /JSSResource/accounts/ endpoint can be used, the…
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JNUC 2022
JNUC (for those that may not know) is the Jamf Nation User Conference. It is Jamf’s annual event to showcase what is new for Apple MDM management and for other Jamf administrators to show how they are using Jamf in their unique environments. The Jamf Nation User Conference is not a sales expo or a…
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Jamf Pro Extension Attributes – Important Dates
With extension attributes in Jamf Pro, an administrator is able to collect extra information about a computer or device whenever inventory is collected. These extra bits of information can be used to generate reports or smart groups based on the values of these attributes. For computers, these attributes can be manually inputted with a text…
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Jamf Pro API – Keep Chrome Updated
Maintaining updates may not be the most fun part of administering computers, but it is necessary. Updates bring new features to end-users and fixes for vulnerabilities. For this post, I will be focusing on the Google Chrome app as it is updated quite frequently. I will show how we can use Jamf Pro patch management,…
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Jamf Pro API – Initializing the Cloud Services Token
As I am continuing on my pursuit to use the Jamf Pro API as much as possible, I started creating scripts that would start to build out my Jamf Pro servers in a quicker, more efficient, and consistent way. I will post these mini scripts here as they come up and hopefully someone else will…
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