We use Zoom a lot, so I modified a script that we were using for Firefox (Thanks Joe Farage!) to install or update to the newest version of Zoom. This one enables HD video, sets SSO logins to be default, and configures the URL for SSO. Below is the script:
#!/bin/sh
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#
# ABOUT THIS PROGRAM
#
# NAME
# ZoomInstall.sh -- Installs or updates Zoom
#
# SYNOPSIS
# sudo ZoomInstall.sh
#
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#
# HISTORY
#
# Version: 1.0
#
# - Shannon Johnson, 28.9.2018
# (Adapted from the FirefoxInstall.sh script by Joe Farage, 18.03.2015)
#
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# Script to download and install Zoom.
# Only works on Intel systems.
#
# Set preferences - set to anything besides "true" to disable
hdvideo="true"
ssodefault="true"
ssohost="psu.zoom.us"
# choose language (en-US, fr, de)
lang=""
# CHECK TO SEE IF A VALUE WAS PASSED IN PARAMETER 1 AND, IF SO, ASSIGN TO "lang"
if [ "$4" != "" ] && [ "$lang" == "" ]; then
lang=$4
else
lang="en-US"
fi
pkgfile="ZoomInstallerIT.pkg"
plistfile="us.zoom.config.plist"
logfile="/Library/Logs/ZoomInstallScript.log"
# Are we running on Intel?
if [ '`/usr/bin/uname -p`'="i386" -o '`/usr/bin/uname -p`'="x86_64" ]; then
## Get OS version and adjust for use with the URL string
OSvers_URL=$( sw_vers -productVersion | sed 's/[.]/_/g' )
## Set the User Agent string for use with curl
userAgent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X ${OSvers_URL}) AppleWebKit/535.6.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.2 Safari/535.6.2"
# Get the latest version of Reader available from Zoom page.
latestver=`/usr/bin/curl -s -A "$userAgent" https://zoom.us/download | grep 'ZoomInstallerIT.pkg' | awk -F'/' '{print $3}'`
echo "Latest Version is: $latestver"
# Get the version number of the currently-installed Zoom, if any.
if [ -e "/Applications/zoom.us.app" ]; then
currentinstalledver=`/usr/bin/defaults read /Applications/zoom.us.app/Contents/Info CFBundleShortVersionString`
echo "Current installed version is: $currentinstalledver"
if [ ${latestver} = ${currentinstalledver} ]; then
echo "Zoom is current. Exiting"
exit 0
fi
else
currentinstalledver="none"
echo "Zoom is not installed"
fi
url="https://zoom.us/client/${latestver}/ZoomInstallerIT.pkg"
echo "Latest version of the URL is: $url"
echo "`date`: Download URL: $url" >> ${logfile}
# Compare the two versions, if they are different or Zoom is not present then download and install the new version.
if [ "${currentinstalledver}" != "${latestver}" ]; then
# Construct the plist file for preferences
echo "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>nogoogle</key>
<string>1</string>
<key>nofacebook</key>
<string>1</string>
<key>ZDisableVideo</key>
<true/>
<key>ZAutoJoinVoip</key>
<true/>
<key>ZDualMonitorOn</key>
<true/>" >> /tmp/${plistfile}
if [ "${ssohost}" != "" ]; then
echo "
<key>ZAutoSSOLogin</key>
<true/>
<key>ZSSOHost</key>
<string>$ssohost</string>" >> /tmp/${plistfile}
fi
echo "<key>ZAutoFullScreenWhenViewShare</key>
<true/>
<key>ZAutoFitWhenViewShare</key>
<true/>" >> /tmp/${plistfile}
if [ "${hdvideo}" == "true" ]; then
echo "<key>ZUse720PByDefault</key>
<true/>" >> /tmp/${plistfile}
else
echo "<key>ZUse720PByDefault</key>
<false/>" >> /tmp/${plistfile}
fi
echo "<key>ZRemoteControlAllApp</key>
<true/>
</dict>
</plist>" >> /tmp/${plistfile}
# Download and install new version
/bin/echo "`date`: Current Zoom version: ${currentinstalledver}" >> ${logfile}
/bin/echo "`date`: Available Zoom version: ${latestver}" >> ${logfile}
/bin/echo "`date`: Downloading newer version." >> ${logfile}
/usr/bin/curl -L -o /tmp/${pkgfile} ${url}
/bin/echo "`date`: Installing PKG..." >> ${logfile}
/usr/sbin/installer -allowUntrusted -pkg /tmp/${pkgfile} -target /
/bin/sleep 10
/bin/echo "`date`: Deleting downloaded PKG." >> ${logfile}
/bin/rm /tmp/${pkgfile}
#double check to see if the new version got updated
newlyinstalledver=`/usr/bin/defaults read /Applications/zoom.us.app/Contents/Info CFBundleShortVersionString`
if [ "${latestver}" = "${newlyinstalledver}" ]; then
/bin/echo "`date`: SUCCESS: Zoom has been updated to version ${newlyinstalledver}" >> ${logfile}
# /Library/Application Support/JAMF/bin/jamfHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/jamfHelper -windowType hud -title "Zoom Installed" -description "Zoom has been updated." &
else
/bin/echo "`date`: ERROR: Zoom update unsuccessful, version remains at ${currentinstalledver}." >> ${logfile}
/bin/echo "--" >> ${logfile}
exit 1
fi
# If Zoom is up to date already, just log it and exit.
else
/bin/echo "`date`: Zoom is already up to date, running ${currentinstalledver}." >> ${logfile}
/bin/echo "--" >> ${logfile}
fi
else
/bin/echo "`date`: ERROR: This script is for Intel Macs only." >> ${logfile}
fi
exit 0
