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08 May

Posted at 19:55h in Administration, Apple, Apple Push Notification Service, Apple School Manager, Automation, Device Enrollment Program, Documentation, Enterprise, Event, Higher Education, Information Technology, iOS, Mac, Management, Meeting, Mobile Device Management, Security, system administration, Volume Purchase Program by
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May 15th, 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...

30 Jul

Posted at 23:44h in Apple, Cross platform, Enterprise, Information Technology, Jamf, Jamf Pro Server, Management, OS X, Programming, Python, Terminal, Unix, Windows by
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Like a loyal droid, your Jamf Pro server wants to help! (Episode III) Jamf Software's Jamf Pro server (JPS) provides an Application Programming Interface, or API, to interact with the JPS database. This allows an enterprise to customize specific areas of the JPS as needed. This...

07 Sep

Posted at 15:26h in Apple, Client, Enterprise, Higher Education, Information Technology, Jamf Pro Server, macOS Sierra (Version 10.12), Mobile Device Management, OS X, Volume Purchase Program by
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From Computer Labs to BYOD It's an undeniable trend, more and more students are relying on their own personal devices for their computing needs. Students are still using computer labs however. One of the major reasons being that computer labs can deliver software like: Logic Pro...

03 Oct

Posted at 16:58h in Apple, Jamf, OS X, Terminal by
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General Overview jamfHelper is a nifty little utility included with Jamf's Casper Suite that can be used to display information, get user input, or even trigger custom events all from the command line or your own custom scripts. There are a number of useful options that can be used to...

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...

13 Feb

Posted at 01:12h in Apple, Bash, Enterprise, Higher Education, Information Technology, Jamf, Limit Descriptors, Management, OS X Yosemite (Version 10.10), Radmind by
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Overview In this post we will be talking about file descriptors and increasing limit descriptors in OS X Yosemite. File descriptors are limited by the OS. This causes some applications and services to return errors. By increasing the limit of file descriptors we can reduce the amount...