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15 Jul

Posted at 11:10h in Administration, Apple, Apple School Manager, Automation, Bash, DEPNotify, Device Enrollment Program, Documentation, Duo Security, Enterprise, Event, Higher Education, Information Technology, Jamf, Mac, Management, Meeting, Programming, Security, SSH, system administration, Terminal, Two Factor Authentication (2FA), Unix, Volume Purchase Program by
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July 17th, 2019 - University of Utah, MacAdmins MeetingThe 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 month's meeting will be held on Wed, July 17th, 2019, 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 use the Contact Us option.   What's New  - By Todd McDaniel, Univ of Utah, Marriott...

21 Jun

Posted at 21:28h in Administration, Apple, Documentation, Enterprise, Higher Education, Information Technology, Mac, Management by
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OverviewThe University of Utah hosts many mailing lists for the University communities like campus MacAdmins. One list, historically named "mac-managers", that covers topics on deployment, management, and integration of Apple technology into multi-platform client & server environments.Subscribe To subscribe to a mailing list, send an email message to sympa@lists.utah.edu. The subject line should be [crayon-5d2f6dabc42c6721310279-i/] , for example...

12 Jun

Posted at 04:29h in Administration, Apple, Apple School Manager, Automation, Client, Configuration, Device Enrollment Program, Directions, Documentation, Enterprise, Event, Intrusion Detection, Jamf, Mac, Malware, Management, Mobile Device Management, Security, system administration, Unified Logging, Volume Purchase Program by
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June 19th, 2019 - University of Utah, MacAdmins MeetingThe 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 month's meeting will be held on Wed, June 19th, 2019, 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 use the Contact Us option.   What's New  - By Todd McDaniel, Univ of Utah, Marriott...

29 May

Posted at 15:05h in Active Directory, Administration, Apple School Manager, Automation, Device Enrollment Program, Documentation, Enterprise, GitHub, Higher Education, Information Technology, Jamf, Linux, Mac, Management, Python, Scripts, system administration, Windows by
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Old MacDonald had a school. A-E-i-O-S,And at that school he had some iPads. A-E-i-O-S,With a iPad here, and a iPad there,Here a iPad, there a iPad, everywhere a iPad.OverviewAEiOS (Automated Enterprise iOS) is a python library designed to aid the automation of Apple iOS device management, configuration, and imaging. Originally designed for our in-house Student Checkout iPads, we wanted to provide our students and patrons the ability to use our iPads without restrictions as if they were personal devices. Users can configure the devices however...

08 May

Posted at 19:55h in Administration, Apple, Apple Push Notification Service, Apple School Manager, Automation, Device Enrollment Program, Documentation, Enterprise, Event, Higher Education, Information Technology, iOS, Mac, Management, Meeting, Mobile Device Management, Security, system administration, Volume Purchase Program by
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May 15th, 2019 - University of Utah, MacAdmins MeetingThe 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 month's meeting will be held on Wed, May 15th, 2019, 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 use the Contact Us option. Mosyle Business - By David Casteel, Cornerstone TechnologiesMosyle Business provides Apple mobile...

12 Apr

Posted at 12:15h in Administration, Apple, Apple Push Notification Service, Automation, Automation, Configuration, Configuration Profiles, Hacking, Higher Education, Information Technology, iOS, Mac, Malware, Management, Mobile Device Management, Security, system administration, Virtualization, Volume Purchase Program, Vunerability, Windows by
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April 17th 2019 - University of Utah, MacAdmins MeetingThe 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 month's meeting will be held on Wed, April 17th 2019, 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 use the Contact Us option.What's New  - By Todd McDaniel, Univ of Utah, Marriott LibraryThis...

14 Mar

Posted at 16:45h in Administration, Ansible, Apple, Apple Push Notification Service, Automation, Configuration Profiles, Container, Cross platform, Distribution, Docker, Documentation, Enterprise, Event, Higher Education, Information Technology, Linux, Logs, Mac, Management, Meeting, Mobile Device Management, Pacifist, Suspicious Package, system administration, vfuse, Virtualization, VMware, Windows by
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March 20th 2019 - University of Utah, MacAdmins MeetingThe 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 month's meeting will be held on Wed, March 20th 2019, 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 use the Contact Us option. VMware Fusion In-Depth - By Michael Roy, VMware, Product ManagerVMware...

13 Feb

Posted at 13:35h in Administration, Adobe Creative Cloud, Apple, Automation, Documentation, Enterprise, Event, Higher Education, Information Technology, Mac, Management, Meeting, system administration by
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February 20th 2019 - University of Utah, MacAdmins MeetingThe 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 month's meeting will be held on Wed, February 20th 2019, 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 use the Contact Us option. PC Recon Replacement - By Todd McDaniel, Univ of Utah, Marriott...

10 Jan

Posted at 18:35h in Administration, AppleScript, Automation, Automation, autopkg, Bash, Bash, Bash, Client, Configuration, Container, Documentation, Enterprise, Hacking, Higher Education, Information Technology, Mac, Malware, Management, Perl, Programming, Property List, Python, python, Scripts, Security, SIP, system, system administration, Terminal, Unix by
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OverviewWe have developed a methodology of managing enterprise and/or shared environment unfriendly applications that has evolved over the years at the Marriott Library or other locations on campus that we support. We affectionately call it the  “Crappy App” model which we use sanitize applications with exceptional requirements.These requirements include:Application has insecure permissions Application has hardcoded variables (usernames, paths, etc.) Application tries to update with every launch Application requires access to locations we’d prefer they not have access Application requires to be launched by a specific user...