User Support and Computing Services (Apple Support) Blog

17 May

Posted at 21:17h in Apple, Automation, Backup, Client, Cross platform, Enterprise, Event, Higher Education, Information Technology, Jamf Pro Server, Management, Mobile Device Management, OS X Server by
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June 21st 2017 - University of Utah, Mac Managers Meeting The University of Utah, MacAdmins Meeting is held monthly at the Marriott Library on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 11 AM Mountain Time. Presentations cover Apple technology and integration in a heterogeneous university enterprise environment. This months meeting will be held on Wed, June 21st 2017, and we will provide live broadcasted and archives that will be made available 2-3 days after the meeting. If you have suggestions on presentations, questions or comments, please your the Contact Us option. What's New  - By Todd McDaniel, Marriott Library, University of Utah This...

12 May

Posted at 17:29h in Apple, Automation, Backup, Client, Cross platform, Device Enrollment Program, Enterprise, Event, Higher Education, Information Technology, Jamf Pro Server, Management, Mobile Device Management, OS X Server, Volume Purchase Program by
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May 17th 2017 - University of Utah, Mac Managers Meeting The University of Utah, MacAdmins Meeting is held monthly at the Marriott Library on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 11 AM Mountain Time. Presentations cover Apple technology and integration in a heterogeneous university enterprise environment. This months meeting will be held on Wed, May 17th 2017, and we will provide live broadcasted and archives that will be made available 2-3 days after the meeting. If you have suggestions on presentations, questions or comments, please your the Contact Us option. Fleetsmith - By Jesse Endahl,  Co-founder, CPO, and CSO...

06 Apr

Posted at 17:38h in Adobe Creative Cloud, Apple, Automation, autopkg, Client, Configuration, Device Enrollment Program, Enterprise, Event, Higher Education, Information Technology, Jamf Pro Server, Logs, Mobile Device Management, Munki, Volume Purchase Program by
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April 19th 2017 - University of Utah, Mac Managers Meeting The University of Utah, MacAdmins Meeting is held monthly at the Marriott Library on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 11 AM Mountain Time. Presentations cover Apple technology and integration in a heterogeneous university enterprise environment. This months meeting will be held on Wed, April 19th 2017, and we will provide live broadcasted and archives that will be made available 2-3 days after the meeting. If you have suggestions on presentations, questions or comments, please your the Contact Us option. Adobe Creative Cloud: Lost in Translation - By Tim Sutton, Concordia...

10 Mar

Posted at 19:56h in Adobe Flash Player, Apple Safari, Documentation, Google Chrome, Higher Education, Information Technology, Media Players, Meeting, Mozilla Firefox, QuickTime, VLC Player, Web Browser by
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Overview I have responded to multiple inquires about getting an error that the webpage requires the QuickTime plugin when trying to view content from our media streaming site. The inquires are coming from non-technical end-users and surprisingly more technical/knowledgable IT workers. So, I thought it would be productive to post and share details with others about the issue and how to troubleshooting it. Update We have migrated our streaming server to support HTML5 using the videojs player framework with secure HTTP Live Streaming protocol using Wowza Media Engine running on a Mac mini. HTTP Live Streaming...

08 Mar

Posted at 21:04h in Apple, Automation, autopkg, AutoPkgr, Casper Admin, Casper Suite, Enterprise, Hacking, Higher Education, Information Technology, Intrusion Detection, Jamf Pro Server, JAMF Software Server, Malware, Management, Meeting, Security by
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March 15th 2017 - University of Utah, Mac Managers Meeting The University of Utah, MacAdmins Meeting is held monthly at the Marriott Library on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 1 PM Mountain Time. Presentations cover Apple technology and integration in a heterogeneous university enterprise environment. This months meeting will be held on Wed, March 15th 2017, and we will provide live broadcasted and archives that will be made available 2-3 days after the meeting. If you have suggestions on presentations, questions or comments, please your the Contact Us option. Apple File System (APFS) - By Rich Trouton, SAP, Mac CoE HFS+...

17 Feb

Posted at 13:00h in Apple, Documentation, Enterprise, Higher Education, Information Technology, Management, Virtual Private Network (VPN) by
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Overview The Cisco AnyConnect Virtual Private Network (VPN) client connecting to a virtual private network will make remote resources of another networks available in a secure way as if the user were connected directly to that "private" network. The Cisco AnyConnect VPN client provides remote users with secure VPN connections to the Cisco appliances using the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol and the Datagram TLS (DTLS) protocol. The Cisco AnyConnect provides more than just VPN it can also provide endpoint software services. It also offers enhanced security through various built-in modules. These modules provide services that include compliance...

16 Feb

Posted at 17:29h in Casper Suite, Cross platform, Enterprise, Information Technology, Management, OS X, Programming, Python by
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  You don't need a bigger boat, you need custom tools. But a bigger boat wouldn't hurt. Here at the Marriott Library we're in the middle of our transition from Radmind to Jamf Pro as our macOS management system. We've supplemented our Radmind deployment with a rich set of utilities and scripts called Xhooks. Continuing the tradition of building custom tools to enhance our existing environment, we've begun building creating a set of applications that allow us to quickly find and make changes to specific machines in...

08 Feb

Posted at 05:13h in Apple, Automation, Enterprise, Higher Education, Information Technology, Logs, Management, Meeting, Microsoft, Skype for Business, Unified Logging by
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Feb 15th 2017 - University of Utah, Mac Managers Meeting The University of Utah, MacAdmins Meeting is held monthly at the Marriott Library on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 1 PM Mountain Time. Presentations cover Apple technology and integration in a heterogeneous university enterprise environment. This months meeting will be held on Wed, Feb 15th 2017, and we will provide live broadcasted and archives that will be made available 2-3 days after the meeting. If you have suggestions on presentations, questions or comments, please your the Contact Us option. Skype for Business on Mac - By Richard Schwendiman, Microsoft Now...

11 Jan

Posted at 18:45h in Ansible, Apple, Automation, autopkg, AutoPkgr, Book, Configuration, Enterprise, Higher Education, Information Technology, Jamf Composer, Jamf Pro Server, munkipkg, Pacifist, Suspicious Package, vfuse, Whitebox Packages by
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Jan 18th 2017 - University of Utah, Mac Managers Meeting The University of Utah, MacAdmins Meeting is held monthly at the Marriott Library on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 1 PM Mountain Time. Presentations cover Apple technology and integration in a heterogeneous university enterprise environment. This months meeting will be held on Wed, Jan 18th 2017, and we will provide live broadcasted and archives that will be made available 2-3 days after the meeting. If you have suggestions on presentations, questions or comments, please your the Contact Us option. Installer Package Fundamentals & Management for MacAdmins  - By Armin...

13 Dec

Posted at 19:58h in Active Directory, Apple, Client, Enterprise, Higher Education, Information Technology, JAMF Software Server, Management, Meeting, Security by
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Dec 21st 2016 - University of Utah, Mac Managers Meeting The University of Utah, MacAdmins Meeting is held monthly at the Marriott Library on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 1 PM Mountain Time. Presentations cover Apple technology and integration in a heterogeneous university enterprise environment. This months meeting will be held on Wed, Dec 21st 2016, and we will provide live broadcasted and archives that will be made available 2-3 days after the meeting. If you have suggestions on presentations, questions or comments, please your the Contact Us option. d3 Software Deployment & Patch Management - By...