It’s been a while since my last post. That’s because I joined dataJAR as a Systems Engineer in October after 15 years of working at the University of East London. It’s been a huge change and I’m loving every minute. I’m learning a huge amount from a fantastic team of...
A major pain point of Adobe’s new Shared Device Licensing (SDL) is was a dialog that would appear 90 minutes following sign-in to a Creative Cloud application. This dialog would prompt the user to confirm that they were still themselves, offering the option to sign-out or continue. It would also...
So this happened. And it’s not good. And now you might be worrying about how many MacBook Pros you manage that may be at risk. Here’s a script that might help. Feed it a text file containing the serial numbers of all the 2015 MacBook Pros in your fleet and...
ServiceConfig.xml That file ^^. If you’ve ever deployed the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop App (CCDA) or any Adobe application that uses it, you might have come across this little nugget. On macOS it lives in /Library/Application Support/Adobe/OOBE/Configs/ and on Windows it’s in C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\OOBE\Configs\. This is especially interesting...
There’s a new craze sweeping the community. “Dad jokes”. The special kind of joke that makes you roll your eyes and cringe because it’s so bad, yet at the same time you feel a great wave of embarrassment because you find it funny. So why am I blogging about this?...
Before we begin Read this: https://dazwallace.wordpress.com/2019/05/08/the-great-adobe-purge-of-19/ Then read that: https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/kb/remove-unauthorized-versions.html Then realise that the macOS “package” Adobe provides is actually a zip file that contains this lot: …which means admins need to do work to deliver and run this on our endpoints. :-( Here are a couple of Autopkg recipes...
I was lucky enough to share the stage with Joel Rennich at this year’s Apple Admin and Developer Conference UK. We spoke about how to achieve more automation and improve the ways we get Macs enrolled into our MDM solutions. The icing on the cake was a deep dive into...
At last week’s London Apple Admins meet-up, I spoke about how to get started with the Adobe User Sync Tool (UST). Thanks again to Steve and ThoughtWorks for hosting us and dataJAR for the delicious food and drink! In my environment, the UST is the core behind automating the process...
Shared Device Licensing (which I’ll refer to as SDL from now on) for Adobe Creative Cloud is here! If you want the skinny on it, go check out Mr Mule’s fantastic write up. So yesterday, it showed up in my Admin Console. Naturally, I spent much of my time mucking...
A quick one - if you’re deploying ESET Endpoint Antivirus or Security to Macs running macOS 10.14.x Mojave, you (or your users!) will have encountered this dialog: To compound the problem, if you follow the instructions in that dialog and you’re not logged in as a local administrator, you’ll soon...
