10 Oct October 2019 – MacAdmins Meeting
October 16th, 2019 – University of Utah, MacAdmins Meeting
The 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, October 16th, 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 Library
This presentation will cover new information pertaining to Apple administration including operating system & application updates, security, hardware support & how-tos and other notables.
- Video – To view archived presentation video, click here.
- Slides – To view the presentation slides, click here.
macOS & iOS Automation – By Adam Tow, tow.com
This presentation will cover thoughts, techniques, and examples of automating macOS, iOS, and digital cameras. There will be a demonstration of several of automation workflows, including:
- Getting your macOS windows and apps organized with one click using Keyboard Maestro.
- Taking control of your Downloads folder and Desktop with Hazel.
- Automated DSLR Wireless Photo Workflow.
- Using Shortcuts to automate repetitive tasks on iOS.
- Reveal and demo of an exciting new automation product for iOS.
- Video – To view archived presentation video, click here.
- Slides – To view the presentation slides, click here.
Preparing for the Next macOS Release – By Robert Hammen, NIH
Apple’s annual OS releases, and frequent, fundamental changes to macOS, have caught some Mac admins unprepared. User Approved Kernel Extension Loading. User Approved MDM. APFS (Apple File System). SecureToken. Transparency and Consent Control (TCC). In the last two macOS versions, there have been multiple, fundamental changes to the way that the OS functions. These changes have directly impacted how Mac admins must deploy and support these new OSes. More changes are ahead. It’s never been more essential that you take the time to test future OSes in your environment before they are released. In this presentation, we’ll discuss considerations, offer advice, as well as testing methodologies, and highlight key areas of changes in macOS Catalina that Mac admins may want to focus on.
- Video – To view archived presentation video, click here.
- Slides – To view the presentation slides, click here.
Jamf Pro Policy Editor Lite – By Dan K. Snelson, LDS Church
This presentation will cover “Jamf Pro Policy Editor Lite” which is a script that is designed to quickly update Jamf Pro policies with software updates. This script was designed to be run interactively in Terminal and allows you to use the API (along with valid API credentials) to update a policy’s version number. To utilize this script, a API account must have the following privileges to modify Jamf Pro policies (i.e. create, read and update). Because of the need to use API credentials with create privileges, the script allows you to interactively enter the credentials so they don’t need to be stored within the script. Lastly, the script performs only minor error checking; please ensure proper API credentials or you will encounter errors.
- Video – To view archived presentation video, click here.
- Slides – To view the presentation slides, click here.
Open Discussion
Questions, comments, problems and fixes.
Directions
The meeting will be held at the Marriott Library room 1705A located inside the Faculty Center located north of Mom’s Cafe. For directions to the University of Utah monthly Mac Managers Meetings see the following web page.
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