Category: macOS
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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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Jamf Pro API – Get Jamf Notifications
For this post, I wanted to share how to get important notifications that may be on your Jamf Pro server without having to actually open a web browser, navigating to your Jamf Pro server, logging in, and viewing the notifications. This task can be done utilizing the Jamf Pro API. The endpoint we will be…
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GREP
What is grep? -Utility designed for searching plain-text data sets for lines that match a regular expression. Global regular expression print. Where is grep? The location of grep can be found using the which command What can be done with grep? Grep can filter information from the computer and report back all lines that include…
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AWK
What is awk? -Utility designed for text processing and typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool. Where is awk? The location of awk can be found using the which command How to get the computer’s Model Identifier? The Model Identifier information lives in the system_profiler > SPHardwareDataType, below is an example of the…