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01 Nov

Posted at 23:19h in Active Directory, Administration, Automation, Documentation, Enterprise, Event, Higher Education, Information Technology, Jamf, Jamf Nation User Conference, Jamf Pro Server, Linux, Mac, Management, Meeting by
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Overview I will be presenting at the upcoming 2019 Jamf Nation User Conference (JNUC) on “Building A Custom Set of Tools That Bridge the Support Gap to Jamf”. This presentation will be covering our Apple infrastructure history, our road to Jamf Pro including integration, transition...

10 Jan

Posted at 18:35h in Administration, AppleScript, Automation, Automation, autopkg, Bash, Bash, Bash, Client, Configuration, Container, Documentation, Enterprise, Hacking, Higher Education, Information Technology, Mac, Malware, Management, Perl, Programming, Property List, Python, python, Scripts, Security, SIP, system, system administration, Terminal, Unix by
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Overview We have developed a methodology of managing enterprise and/or shared environment unfriendly applications that has evolved over the years at the Marriott Library or other locations on campus that we support. We affectionately call it the  “Crappy App” model which we use sanitize applications with exceptional...

07 Jul

Posted at 21:40h in AppleScript, Bash, Configuration, Configuration Profiles, Documentation, Enterprise, Higher Education, Information Technology, Jamf Composer, Jamf Pro Server, JAMF Software Server, Profile Manager, Property List, Python, Scripts, SIP by
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Overview This blog was created from the first multi-part of a presentation at the June 2017 University of Utah MacAdmin meeting which covers in-depth information on managing settings on Mac systems including property lists format, naming, preference search paths, file system locations and structure and...

10 Mar

Posted at 19:56h in Adobe Flash Player, Apple Safari, Documentation, Google Chrome, Higher Education, Information Technology, Media Players, Meeting, Mozilla Firefox, QuickTime, VLC Player, Web Browser by
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Overview I have responded to multiple inquires about getting an error that the webpage requires the QuickTime plugin when trying to view content from our media streaming site. The inquires are coming from non-technical end-users and surprisingly more technical/knowledgable IT workers. So, I thought it would...

17 Feb

Posted at 13:00h in Apple, Documentation, Enterprise, Higher Education, Information Technology, Management, Virtual Private Network (VPN) by
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Overview The Cisco AnyConnect Virtual Private Network (VPN) client connecting to a virtual private network will make remote resources of another networks available in a secure way as if the user were connected directly to that “private” network. The Cisco AnyConnect VPN client provides remote users with secure VPN connections to the Cisco appliances using the...

06 Aug

Posted at 19:11h in Objective-C, Programming, Python by
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For years we've been using the old C program SetDisplay (the code can be seen here, as modified by one of our previous teammates). However we've recently been trying to move everything to Python, and to continue that effort I've set about porting the C code to Python. While we may lose some performance, we hope to gain portability, readability, and maintainability, which we feel are more valuable.