Category: macOS
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Jamf Pro – Organization
I was asked last week to think of some practices as a Jamf Admin that I’ve adopted into my environments that have really helped me out. One of the first things that came to mind was organization practices. Organization is key to keeping a clean environment and can help you quickly identify what is being…
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Jamf Pro – Get Mac Warranty Information
Over the past few weeks I’ve been asked multiple times on a way that we can get an insight on our computer’s warranty expirations. This is helpful information to plan out a computer refresh cycle and to have good observability on the status of your fleet. To date, I’ve been working on getting some processes…
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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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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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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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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…