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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...

26 Jun

Posted at 16:48h in Administration, Apple, Automation, Documentation, Enterprise, Event, Higher Education, Information Technology, Mac, Management by
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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...

11 Jun

Posted at 13:36h in Administration, Automation, Documentation, Enterprise, Higher Education, Information Technology, Jamf Pro by
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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...

22 May

Posted at 14:21h in Administration, Automation, Automation, Client Management, Configuration Profiles, Documentation, Enterprise, Event, Higher Education, Information Technology, Iru, Jamf Pro, Kandji, Mac, Management by
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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...

15 May

Posted at 14:02h in Administration, Ansible, Automation, Automation, Client Management, Configuration Profiles, Enterprise, Event, Higher Education, Information Technology, Iru, Jamf Pro, Kandji, Management, Meeting, Property List, Security, Terragorm by
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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...

20 Apr

Posted at 14:14h in Administration, Automation, Client Management, Documentation, Enterprise, Event, Higher Education, Information Technology, Jamf Pro, Mac, Management, Title Editor by
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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...

10 Apr

Posted at 09:12h in Administration, Automation, Bash, Client Management, Documentation, Enterprise, Event, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Higher Education, Information Technology, Jamf Pro, Jamf Pro Server, Meeting, Perl, Programming, Python, Scripts, Security, Swift, Title Editor, Z shell by
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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...

18 Mar

Posted at 14:58h in Administration, Automation, Documentation, Enterprise, Higher Education, Information Technology, Jamf Pro Server, Patch Management, Title Editor by
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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,...