Incremental non OS Updates

llitz123
Contributor III

 

Apple released an update for Safari and my guess is there will be Security updates shortly.

How are admins updating these?

Thanks for any help.

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_gsm
New Contributor III

If the update does not require a reboot, I just use "softwareupdate -i --safari-only" in Files and Processes. It's crude but effective.

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llitz123
Contributor III

yeah that's what I decided to do.  I think I should be able to do the same with security updates once I use softwareupdate -l to find the name.

Thanks!

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dmichels
Contributor II
Ran updates remotely after hours, Computers must be setup via PreStage
Enrollment to get command to execute, install and restart:

Jamf Pro:

- Static Group (do for each group) try and scatter so not all
installing at once
- View
- Action
- Send Remote Commands
- Update OS version and built-in apps (macOS 10.11 or later,
Supervised or enrolled via a PreStage enrollment)
- Specific Version
- 12.6
- Download and install the update, and restart the computers after
installation
- Next
- Done

OR

- Individual select Computer Record
- Management
- Download and Install Updates



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Debbie Michels
Apple Specialist
ITS Information Technology Services
Bergen Community College
Pitkin Building - Room A236
400 Paramus Road, Paramus NJ 07652

dmichels@bergen.edu
(O) 201-879-1694

llitz123
Contributor III

I have a workflow for updating macOS clients that uses full macOS installers yet misses the non-macOS specific updates, I believe.

I was actually interested in finding a way to address the non macOS updates without updating the macOS.  Or is this not possible now?

I hope that makes sense.

Thanks for any help.

 

_gsm
New Contributor III

If the update does not require a reboot, I just use "softwareupdate -i --safari-only" in Files and Processes. It's crude but effective.

llitz123
Contributor III

yeah that's what I decided to do.  I think I should be able to do the same with security updates once I use softwareupdate -l to find the name.

Thanks!

oli
New Contributor III

Normally one was prompted for a password on Apple Silicon Macs.
Is this also working without this prompt?

_gsm
New Contributor III

This will work without a password on a Safari update which does not require a reboot. This will not work for macOS updates as a password will be required. For macOS updates, investigate

Nudge,

https://github.com/macadmins/nudge

Super,

https://github.com/Macjutsu/super

or using MDM commands.

https://docs.jamf.com/10.42.0/jamf-pro/documentation/Remote_Commands_for_Computers.html?hl=mdm%2Ccom...