Category Archives: Software

Posts about software and software distribution at Williams College

Windows 10 – SMB Guest access denied by default

Windows 10 now, by default, denies an SMB client from connecting to an SMB server with “guest access”.  See: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4046019/guest-access-in-smb2-disabled-by-default-in-windows-10-and-windows-ser The temporary fix is to change the registry to allow guest account access With windows regedit I set : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters … Continue reading

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Mac – JAMF manual agent installation

Sometimes, (in my case when using DEP enrollment on a slow wifi connection) the Jamf agent doesn’t get installed properly during DEP enrollment. To fix that here is what I did: I first ran the following commands to manually download … Continue reading

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Packaging – Comic Life 3

To Package Comic Life 3 – Here at Williams the concurrent usage of Comic Life 3 is controlled by the KeyServer. Therefore, we distribute a “keyed” version of the application. The application will only run if the individual is running … Continue reading

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Windows – Windows to Go – Portable Windows on an external disk

“Windows To Go” is a portable windows environment that Microsoft developed. While Microsoft says they are no longer developing this, it is still available for use on recent versions of windows 10. For the Microsoft overview see: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/planning/windows-to-go-overview I have … Continue reading

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Mac – Installing Spartan ’18 from JAMF

To install Spartan ’18 with a network license server correctly as a push from Jamf: 1) First create a package that installs the Spartan ’18 application to the /Applications folder and push that from Jamf 2) Create a script (example … Continue reading

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Mac OS – Kernel Extensions

In 2018 Apple introduced secure kernel extensions to their MacOS. Earlier applications could install kernel extensions without the user knowing or specifically being required to “approve” that extension. Think of kernel extensions like drivers and other very deep operating system … Continue reading

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MacOS – Create a Virtual from a fully loaded Mac

Virtuals are useful for so many things. I often use them to have a clean OS on which to test the installation of various software applications with an extremely fast and reliable way to revert back to the clean OS … Continue reading

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Mac – Tool to help download specific macos installers

It isn’t always easy to get all of the right pieces for a particular MacOS update/install.  For example, if you are running MacOS 10.13.5 already the traditional ways of going to the Map App Store or doing system updates won’t … Continue reading

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Mac – 10.13.4 – Wipe and clean install of OS

On a mac that is already running 10.13.4 and that has an APFS drive you can wipe the drive and reinstall the OS without having to boot to anything external, external drive or netboot. Get the MacOS 10.13.4 (or better) … Continue reading

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