Author: robjschroeder
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App Auto-Patch
Firstly, I’d like to thank all the individuals who have directly and indirectly helped with this project. Shoutout to @option8 for the main portion of this code and the #patchomator project, @BigMacAdmin for most of the swiftDialog usage in the script, and @dan-snelson for his help and continued refinement of the script. With that said,…
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Automated Device Enrollment and Setup Your Mac version 1.10.0
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. Setup Your Mac version 1.10.0 was released earlier…
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Setup Your Mac – Zoom Room Edition
In my current organization, we are using Setup Your Mac (thanks Dan Snelson!!) to provide a zero-touch guided Mac deployment experience our end-users which has been an incredible success. After seeing the success that we’ve had for our end-users, we started to focus on how we could cut down the time to deploy a Zoom…
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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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