Forking, curating labels, and packaging an internal build Part 2 of a 4-part series Part 1 covered why you might fork Installomator at all and gave a quick-start path to a working package. This post is about the decisions that come before you write any code: what main vs release actually means,...
Forking, curating labels, and packaging an internal build Part 1 of a 4-part Series This is the first of four posts on maintaining your own internal fork of Installomator: forking, curating labels, and packaging a build for your MDM. This one covers what problem forking actually solves...
June 17th, 2026 - University of Utah, MacAdmins Meeting The University of Utah, MacAdmins Meeting is held monthly virtually 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...
Mac admins are often asked to remove software that was originally deployed by a vendor .pkg or .mpkg, and the uncomfortable answer is usually: "It depends what the installer put on disk." Receipts help, but they are not always enough. Vendor uninstallers may be missing, outdated, interactive, or...
June 17th, 2026 - University of Utah, MacAdmins Meeting The University of Utah MacAdmins Meeting is held virtually monthly 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...
May 20th, 2026 - University of Utah, MacAdmins Meeting The University of Utah, MacAdmins Meeting is held monthly virtually 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...
May 20th, 2026 - University of Utah, MacAdmins Meeting The University of Utah MacAdmins Meeting is held virtually monthly 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...
April 15th, 2026 - University of Utah, MacAdmins Meeting The University of Utah, MacAdmins Meeting is held monthly virtually 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...
April 15th, 2026 - University of Utah, MacAdmins Meeting The University of Utah MacAdmins Meeting is held virtually monthly 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...
Background: Managing Software Patch Compliance at Scale The J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah manages one of the larger academic Mac fleets in the Intermountain West — thousands of macOS endpoints spanning public computing labs, faculty and staff workstations, specialized media production suites,...