Category: macOS
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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…
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Deployment Rings….in Jamf Pro
If you have any experience as a Sys Admin and the image above gives you PTSD, don’t worry, me too! The implementation of deployment rings though is a great model to copy. Deployment Rings allow an administrator to separate computers into groups for the purpose of deploying software at different intervals in a deployment timeframe.…
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Jamf Pro – App Installers
“App Installers is part of Jamf Pro 10.37, saving Mac admins time and ensuring that end users have the most up-to-date versions of the apps they need.” – Jamf One of the most tedious parts of being a Jamf Admin, in my experience, was maintaining, packaging, and deploying patch updates for applications. This was especially…
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Jamf Connect – Reporting the Login Window
Jamf Connect is an app that can help a Mac administrator bring directory based authentication to a mac without the need to bind the mac to an on-premises Active Directory by using a Cloud Identity Provider, such as Azure or Okta. Once Jamf Connect is implemented, users will use their directory credentials to authenticate to…
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Jamf Pro API – Manage macOS Software Updates
Using the Jamf Pro API to carry out management tasks can help to save time and effort by using a script to do those tasks. A script can also be re-used at any time that you would like to do the task again. In this example, we are going to show how we can send…
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