Today, Apple published a couple of articles on their support website that are of particular interest to the admin community. Especially as they talk about things coming up in macOS 10.13 High Sierra! Prepare for changes to kernel extensions in macOS High Sierra Upgrade macOS on a Mac at your...
I’ve already been using this technique for a while but today, thanks to our fantastic Mac Admins community, I’ve learned a little bit more about it, so it might be worth a blog post. One interesting thing about Jamf Pro is that it can execute scripts during a policy run....
We had a London Apple Admins meet up at Sony Music last Thursday! As one of the resident ’herders’ (along with Ben, Darren, Graham and Steve), I’m honoured to share the video of this event, which includes a workshop on Zentral, an open source framework for monitoring stuff. Huge thanks to...
To me, what follows didn’t seem overly remarkable, until I shared it in #jamfnation on the MacAdmin’s Slack. I received some great feedback and was encouraged to share what I did with the wider community. I honestly didn’t think it would be that useful to as many people as it...
Yes, yes, imaging is dead, I know. But if you manage Macs in an education setting, especially in a lab environment with lots of shared use, it’s still a great way to provision those machines (DEP isn’t quite there yet IMO). I’m not going to get into the thorny subject of...
Jamf just put a bunch of interesting introductory training videos up. As well as covering the basics of the Jamf Pro product, there are also some nice little nuggets that are more general. I particularly liked the CLI and Scripting lessons. From a pedagogical (teaching methodology) perspective, I think they’re really...
Jamf released version 9.98 of its Casper Suite/JSS Jamf Pro management suite last Thursday. The eagle-eyed amongst us may have noticed a change to the system requirements deep within the documentation: Prior to version 9.98, MySQL 5.7 was not recommended. You’ll likely have MySQL 5.5 or 5.6 installed. I’m running 5.6 and...
