User Support and Computing Services (Apple Support) Blog

19 Sep

Posted at 19:20h in Apple, Enterprise, Higher Education, Information Technology, Meeting by
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Sept, 21st 2016 - University of Utah, Mac Managers Meeting The 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, Sept 21st, and we 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. Pacifist by Charles Srstka - CharlesSoft Pacifist is a shareware...

03 Aug

Posted at 18:42h in Apple, Bash, csrutil, Enterprise, Higher Education, Information Technology, Management, OS X, OS X El Capitan (Version 10.11), Python, Radmind, Security, SIP by
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Overview System Integrity Protection or "SIP" is a new security measure implemented in 10.11 "El Capitan". SIP protects access to system locations and restricting runtime attachment to system processes, this security policy guards against compromise — whether accidental or by malicious code. SIP protects file system locations that we are managing with our current client management system called Radmind. Radmind operates as a tripwire with the ability to detect any modifications to the file system and reverse those changes to a known state. System Integrity Protection To protect the...

22 Jul

Posted at 22:56h in Casper Remote, OS X, Security by
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Overview Casper Remote is an application from JAMF Software that allows you to immediately perform remote management tasks on computers, such as installing packages, running scripts, and binding to directory services.  All of these tasks can be performed via policy in the JAMF Software Server (JSS), however Casper Remote allows you to initiate them immediately. Details In some environments, you might implement custom Secure Shell (SSH) ports for additional security measures, some argue that this is "security through obsurity", but if you follow the best practices in securing SSH, this...

11 Jul

Posted at 17:00h in Apple, Enterprise, Higher Education, Information Technology, Meeting by
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July, 20th 2016 - University of Utah, Mac Managers Meeting The 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, July 20th, and we 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. Managing Apple Clients with FileWave by Robert...

28 Jun

Posted at 20:21h in Casper Suite, Cross platform, Information Technology, JAMF Software Server, OS X, Programming, Python, Terminal, Unix, Windows by
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Like a loyal droid, your JSS wants to help! JAMF Software's Casper Suite provides an Application Programming Interface, or API, to communicate with the JAMF Software Server (JSS) database. This allows an enterprise to customize specific areas of the JSS as needed. This is the first in a series of articles that will discuss these APIs and walk through building Python scripts that take advantage of the data available in the JSS. Future articles will show how to upload data to the JSS, building Extension Attributes...

10 Jun

Posted at 22:10h in Apple, Enterprise, Higher Education, Information Technology, Meeting by
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June, 15th 2016 - University of Utah, Mac Managers Meeting The 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, June 15th, and we 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. Python Objective-C Bridge Overview by Michael Lynn, Dropbox Python is...

10 May

Posted at 23:34h in Apple, Enterprise, Higher Education, Information Technology, Meeting by
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May, 18th 2016 - University of Utah, Mac Managers Meeting The 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, May 18th, and we 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. Testing & Automation with VMware Fusion by...

06 Apr

Posted at 00:05h in AppleScript, Bash, Book, Casper Suite, GitHub, Python, Radmind by
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Overview Recently, we received our order for the book "Enterprise Mac Administrator's Guide: Second Edition" written by  Charles Edge and William Smith. This book provides detailed explanations of the technology required for large-scale Mac OS X deployments and show you how to integrate it with other operating systems and applications. It addresses the growing size and spread of Mac OS X deployments in corporations and institutions worldwide. In some cases, this is due to the growth of traditional Mac environments, but for the most part it has to do with organizations...

30 Mar

Posted at 05:48h in Apple, Enterprise, Higher Education, Information Technology, Meeting by
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April, 20th 2016 - University of Utah, Mac Managers Meeting The University of Utah, Mac Managers Meeting is held monthly at the Marriott Library @ 1 PM Mountain Time. Presentations cover Apple technology and integration in a heterogeneous university enterprise environment. Lunch is provided to the meeting, and we provide live broadcasts and archive of the presentations. This months meeting will be held on Wed, April 20th @ 1 PM Mountain Time and presentations will be live broadcasted and archives will be made available 2-3 days after the meeting. If you have...