Nothing in this world is perfect, and the same goes for EMM solutions (and this is fine - we’re only human after all). With Jamf, if you open a support case, it may sometimes end with no resolution, but instead you’re given a PI or D number - which means...
Following Microsoft’s announcement that System Centre Endpoint Protection (SCEP) for macOS and Linux is to be discontinued by the end of this year, their recommended migration path is to switch to ESET Cyber Security. In fact, ESET are granting anyone wishing to switch a year’s subscription for free, which is...
It’s all Ben’s fault. The problem: Adobe device license serial numbers have an expiry date. Adobe have the AdobeExpiryCheck command line tool you can run that’ll tell you if you have a device license serial number and what the expiry date is. This tool returns results that look like this:...
No, not the certificate thing. Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection for macOS and Linux, as announced at Microsoft’s Blog. There were rumours of its impending demise on Twitter back in March but nothing concrete from Microsoft until now. So, no more support after the end of 2018 and definition updates...
(mild language and tongue in cheek humour alert) Today’s sermon will be from the book of Jobs, Chapter 3, Verse 10, “Fault diagnosis, Booting”. And Jacob, who hath a 2018 MacBook Pro that didst not boot, spoke unto the Genius, “Oh Genius, I hath electricity, the holy spark of fire,...
For endpoint devices, making sure the date and time is set correctly is really important. If it isn’t, you’ll soon see things breaking that depend on certificates, authentication, kerberos and so on. And who wants to have the wrong time on their device anyway? Nowadays the best way to sort...
2022-05-03 Edit: Thanks again to Scott Blake (@mscottblake on the Slack), for informing me that Amazon have changed the file size limit to 30GB now. 2019-05-20 Edit: Thanks to Scott Blake (@mscottblake on the Slack), we now know the root cause of this limit is due to Amazon’s CloudFront service...
Whilst perusing the Slack, as you do, a post from @matx (organiser of MacDevOpsYVR) stuck out where he listed a bunch of links to various Mac/Apple Admin conference videos. To my surprise, I couldn’t find much in terms of an aggregated listing online (probably more to do with my rubbish...
If you’ve ever been unfortunate enough to stumble into the #london channel on the MacAdmins Slack, you may see something like this in the early Greenwich Mean Time hours: For most uninitiated non-Brits, you’ll be forgiven for thinking it’s some kind of secret code or cult ritual (actually, maybe it...
Ahh SecureToken; the gift that keeps on giving! macOS 10.13.4 introduced this new, undocumented dialog that would appear on first login under the following conditions: If the filesystem is APFS Whether or not FileVault is enabled If the Mac is bound to a directory service (e.g. Active Directory or LDAP)...
