Microsoft introduced a handy feature in version 10 of their Remote Desktop client with little fanfare; the ability to manage bookmarks, feeds and gateways using the command line. I think it deserves some more attention. It was possible to add bookmarks with the previous version 8 of Microsoft Remote Desktop...
Coronavirus is wrecking lives throughout the world and scientists are working hard to find ways to fight it. As MacAdmins, we can help. If you’ve seen images of the virus itself, you’ll notice it’s strewn with lots of little “spikes”. Known as the “Demogorgon” (scientists come up with cool names!),...
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...
