User Support and Computing Services (Apple Support) Blog

02 Aug

Posted at 18:25h in Apple, Bash, Documentation, Information Technology, networksetup, OS X, scutil, Terminal, Unix by
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OverviewThere are a multitude of useful command-line utilities that come with macOS. After using them day in and day out, a few of you may even know some of these tool inside and out, have all the documentation memorized, and even have written scripts around them to compensate for a few short-comings. What if there were a way to get a little more from these tools?I am going to go over some of the techniques I have used to find some extra functionality in macOS....

17 Jul

Posted at 11:05h in Documentation, Enterprise, Event, Higher Education, Information Technology, Meeting, Security, Vunerability by
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July 19th 2017 - University of Utah, MacAdmins MeetingThe 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 months meeting will be held on Wed, July 19th 2017, 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 your the Contact Us option. What's New  - By Todd McDaniel, Marriott Library, University of...

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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OverviewThis 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 parts. Tools and methodologies to view, edit compare and discover property list files to aid in managing configurations on a fleet of Mac systems.To view the archived presentation, click here.Why use Configuration Profiles?There are multiple reasons to invest time and resources for...

29 Jun

Posted at 22:30h in Apple, Cross platform, OS X, OS X El Capitan (Version 10.11), OS X Server, OS X Yosemite (Version 10.10), Windows by
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Set my folders free!Earlier this year we received a number of reports from users that were unable to delete, move or rename documents on a new SMB file share. Eventually we were able to narrow it down enough to be able to consistently duplicate what they were seeing. It appears the SMB client in Mac OS X (10.11, 10.12 and possibly others) is overly aggressive with file locks.Here is a movie of the bug in action. Many of the Mac administrators we reached out to...

17 May

Posted at 21:17h in Apple, Automation, Backup, Client, Cross platform, Enterprise, Event, Higher Education, Information Technology, Jamf Pro Server, Management, Mobile Device Management, OS X Server by
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June 21st 2017 - University of Utah, Mac Managers MeetingThe 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 months meeting will be held on Wed, June 21st 2017, 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 your the Contact Us option.What's New  - By Todd McDaniel, Marriott Library, University of UtahThis...

12 May

Posted at 17:29h in Apple, Automation, Backup, Client, Cross platform, Device Enrollment Program, Enterprise, Event, Higher Education, Information Technology, Jamf Pro Server, Management, Mobile Device Management, OS X Server, Volume Purchase Program by
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May 17th 2017 - University of Utah, Mac Managers MeetingThe 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 months meeting will be held on Wed, May 17th 2017, 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 your the Contact Us option. Fleetsmith - By Jesse Endahl,  Co-founder, CPO, and CSO...

06 Apr

Posted at 17:38h in Adobe Creative Cloud, Apple, Automation, autopkg, Client, Configuration, Device Enrollment Program, Enterprise, Event, Higher Education, Information Technology, Jamf Pro Server, Logs, Mobile Device Management, Munki, Volume Purchase Program by
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April 19th 2017 - University of Utah, Mac Managers MeetingThe 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 months meeting will be held on Wed, April 19th 2017, 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 your the Contact Us option. Adobe Creative Cloud: Lost in Translation - By Tim Sutton, Concordia...

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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OverviewI 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 be productive to post and share details with others about the issue and how to troubleshooting it.Update We have migrated our streaming server to support HTML5 using the videojs player framework with secure HTTP Live Streaming protocol using Wowza Media Engine running on a Mac mini. HTTP Live Streaming...

08 Mar

Posted at 21:04h in Apple, Automation, autopkg, AutoPkgr, Casper Admin, Casper Suite, Enterprise, Hacking, Higher Education, Information Technology, Intrusion Detection, Jamf Pro Server, JAMF Software Server, Malware, Management, Meeting, Security by
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March 15th 2017 - University of Utah, Mac Managers MeetingThe University of Utah, MacAdmins Meeting is held monthly at the Marriott Library on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 1 PM Mountain Time. Presentations cover Apple technology and integration in a heterogeneous university enterprise environment. This months meeting will be held on Wed, March 15th 2017, 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 your the Contact Us option. Apple File System (APFS) - By Rich Trouton, SAP, Mac CoEHFS+...

17 Feb

Posted at 13:00h in Apple, Documentation, Enterprise, Higher Education, Information Technology, Management, Virtual Private Network (VPN) by
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OverviewThe 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 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol and the Datagram TLS (DTLS) protocol. The Cisco AnyConnect provides more than just VPN it can also provide endpoint software services. It also offers enhanced security through various built-in modules. These modules provide services that include compliance...