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10 Aug

Posted at 10:26h in Administration, Automation, Documentation, Enterprise, Higher Education, Information Technology by
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Adobe Acrobat DC has a reputation for being one of those apps that seems simple until you try to remove it at scale. On paper, the task looks straightforward: uninstall the app, verify it is gone, move on. In practice, Acrobat frequently behaves like a...

08 Aug

Posted at 11:46h in Administration, Automation, Bug, Higher Education, Information Technology, Jamf Pro by
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Historically, Adobe has not always aligned cleanly with Apple’s preferred installation and removal workflows, so MacAdmins have often had to adapt their processes around Adobe’s packaging, licensing, and uninstall behavior. Over time, Adobe uninstall options on macOS have improved in pieces, but they still do...

05 Aug

Posted at 14:15h in Administration, Automation, Client Management, Documentation, Enterprise, Higher Education, Information Technology, Jamf Pro, Kandji by
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Intel-only binaries in macOS apps and installer packages are now a practical rollout risk for Apple silicon environments. This project provides a focused workflow to discover Intel-only executable components before deployment, then generate clear remediation feedback for application developers and support teams. Why This Matters Apple has...

15 Jul

Posted at 16:37h in Administration, Automation, Client Management, Documentation, Enterprise, Event, Higher Education, Information Technology by
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July 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...

13 Jul

Posted at 09:33h in Administration, Automation, Client Management, Documentation, Enterprise, Higher Education, Information Technology, Jamf Pro by
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Installomator is very good at downloading, verifying, and installing Mac apps, but one uncomfortable problem remains: what if the app is open while you are trying to update it? That is where blockingProcesses and BLOCKING_PROCESS_ACTION come in. A blocking process is a running app or related process that should stop an...

11 Jul

Posted at 11:23h in Administration, Client Management, Enterprise, Higher Education, Information Technology, Security by
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July 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...

08 Jul

Posted at 14:49h in Administration, Automation, Client Management, Documentation, Enterprise, Higher Education, Information Technology by
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Forking, curating labels, and packaging an internal build Part 4 of a 4-part series, final post Part 3 covered pulling and curating labels. This last post covers turning that curated build into something you actually deploy: a release flow, getting the script into Jamf Pro, and packaging it...

02 Jul

Posted at 11:10h in Administration, Documentation, Enterprise by
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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,...