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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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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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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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LaunchDaemons and Launch Agents Overview
Launch Daemons are services that can be configured to execute a variety of payloads. When macOS boots up, launchd is run to finish system initialization which will load the parameters for each launch-on-demand system-level daemon from the plist files found in /Library/LaunchDaemons and /System/Library/LaunchDaemons. These plist files point to executables that will be launched. Example…
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Server Series – Jamf AD CS Connector
Download Windows Server 2022 from: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/– Install Windows Server 2022* Windows Server 2019 System Requirements:Processor: 1.4 GHz 64-bit processorRAM: 512 MBDisk Space: 32 GBNetwork – Gigabit (10/100/1000baseT) Ethernet adapterOptical Storage – DVD drive (if installing the OS from DVD media)Video – Super VGA (1024 x 768) or higher-resolution (optional)Input Devices – Keyboard and mouse (optional)Internet…
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Server Series – Jamf Pro Server
Download Windows Server 2022 from: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/– Install Windows Server 2022* Windows Server 2019 System Requirements:Processor: 1.4 GHz 64-bit processorRAM: 512 MBDisk Space: 32 GBNetwork – Gigabit (10/100/1000baseT) Ethernet adapterOptical Storage – DVD drive (if installing the OS from DVD media)Video – Super VGA (1024 x 768) or higher-resolution (optional)Input Devices – Keyboard and mouse (optional)Internet…
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Server Series – Introduction
Hey all! I wanted to get a series going on this blog that will walk through how to set up a mock enterprise infrastructure environment that is perfect for testing. Having a lab set up ready for me to test on, break, and figure out how to fix has been one of the best tools…
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About me
This blog is mainly to talk about all things tech. I would love to use this platform to share technical resources, talk about awesome things in tech, and to use this space as a place of references or notes. A little about myself, I have been working professionally in the tech field since 2008. My…