Author: Todd McDaniel

30 Jul Searching the JSS with API calls and Python

Posted at 23:44h in Apple, Cross platform, Enterprise, Information Technology, Jamf, Jamf Pro Server, Management, OS X, Programming, Python, Terminal, Unix, Windows by Todd McDaniel 0 Comments

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Like a loyal droid, your Jamf Pro server wants to help! (Episode III) Jamf Software's Jamf Pro server (JPS) provides an Application Programming Interface, or API, to interact with the JPS database. This allows an enterprise to customize specific areas of the JPS as needed. This...

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18 Sep Publishing information to the Jamf Pro server using API calls and Python

Posted at 17:03h in Cross platform, Enterprise, Jamf, Jamf Pro Server, Programming, Python by Todd McDaniel 0 Comments

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Like a loyal droid, your Jamf Pro server wants to help! (Part two) Jamf Software's Jamf Pro server (JPS) provides an Application Programming Interface, or API, to interact with the JPS database. This allows an enterprise to customize specific areas of the JPS as needed. This...

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29 Jun Mac Bug Connecting to Non-Apple SMB Shares

Posted at 22:30h in Apple, Cross platform, OS X, OS X El Capitan (Version 10.11), OS X Server, OS X Yosemite (Version 10.10), Windows by Todd McDaniel 67 Comments

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Set my folders free! Earlier this year we received a number of reports from users that were unable to delete, move or rename documents on a new SMB file share. Eventually we were able to narrow it down enough to be able to consistently duplicate what...

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16 Feb Introducing SCL Jamf Tools

Posted at 17:29h in Cross platform, Enterprise, Information Technology, Jamf, Management, OS X, Programming, Python by Todd McDaniel 0 Comments

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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...

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21 Nov Using the JAMF Pro API and Python to detect duplicated attributes

Posted at 18:56h in Cross platform, Documentation, Information Technology, Jamf, JAMF Software Server, Programming, Python, Scripts, Terminal by Todd McDaniel 0 Comments

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No matter where you go, there they are...

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28 Jun Fetching Data From the JSS using API calls & Python

Posted at 20:21h in Cross platform, Information Technology, Jamf, JAMF Software Server, OS X, Programming, Python, Terminal, Unix, Windows by Todd McDaniel 0 Comments

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Like a loyal droid, your JSS wants to help! JAMF Software's Casper Suite provides an Application Programming Interface, or API, to communicate with the JAMF Software Server (JSS) database. This allows an enterprise to customize specific areas of the JSS as needed. This is the first...

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07 Mar Firmware Password Manager for OS X

Posted at 15:00h in Apple, Enterprise, Higher Education, Jamf, Management, OS X, Python, Radmind, Security by Todd McDaniel 2 Comments

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Overview Firmware Password Manager (FWPM) is my approach to the problem of managing firmware passwords on Apple computers. When I began this project there were no solutions, besides setting the password and never changing it. FWPM allows you to update your firmware passwords quickly and easily....

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26 Feb Using GIF images in Python GUI scripts

Posted at 01:48h in Cross platform, JAMF Software Server, MySQL, Programming, Python by Todd McDaniel 2 Comments

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Knocked My Socks Off! My coworkers and I attended our first JAMF Nation conference this past October. The last session I attended on the first day knocked my socks off. Bryson Tyrrell of JAMF showed off an iPhone ordering script he wrote in Python and Tk....

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12 Feb Securely deploying Xcode with minimum privileges

Posted at 14:40h in Apple, Distribution, Security, Software, Xcode by Todd McDaniel 2 Comments

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Overview Xcode is Apple's development environment. It's used to develop applications on Macs, iOS devices like iPhones and the Apple Watch. It also includes the new language Swift, which is becoming very popular in higher education. However, Xcode requires users to have "_Developer" group privileges to...

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