Tag Archives: Macintosh

Mac – JAMF manual agent installation

Posted on May 26, 2020 by

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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MacOS – Add Active Domain group to local mac group

Posted on March 30, 2020 by

In testing, we found that remote connections from windows clients to the built-in macOS VNC server were not encrypted in any way. To resolve this we decided to use RealVNC as the screen sharing server on Macs. Also, since we … Continue reading →

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MacOS – Disabling Sleep option from Finder menu

Posted on September 11, 2019 by

We find that if people manually sleep a mac running Mojave (10.14.5) from the Finder menu that mac is then nearly impossible to wake up. So, at least on lecterns, I am using this command to disable the sleep menu … Continue reading →

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MacOS – Script – Getting the logged in user

Posted on September 6, 2019 by

loggedInUser=$( scutil <<< "show State:/Users/ConsoleUser" | awk '/Name :/ && ! /loginwindow/ { print $3 }' ) For more details see: https://scriptingosx.com/2019/09/get-current-user-in-shell-scripts-on-macos/

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Mac – Installing Spartan ’18 from JAMF

Posted on July 11, 2019 by

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 – Use PMSET for Sleep timers and Power Management

Posted on April 18, 2019 by

On the Mac there are a number of ways to control the sleep timers.  Some seem to work better than others.  For Mojave (MacOS 10.14.x) I have switched to using the command peset. peset -g      shows a list … Continue reading →

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Mac OS – SIP or System Integrity Protection

Posted on February 13, 2019 by

SIP (System Integrity Protection) isn’t a bad thing. It actually protects your mac from a whole host of otherwise nasty infections. However, it can sometimes get in the way of doing important mac management tasks. To disable SIP: Boot the … Continue reading →

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Mac OS – Kernel Extensions

Posted on February 13, 2019 by

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

Posted on January 8, 2019 by

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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