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milesleacy · 03-20-2018

Hi Nation, I had to deliver a script that required more than 8 custom parameters. The below is my somewhat tedious but functional solution to this dilemma. Essentially, I am putting more than one value into each of the Jamf Pro script parameters, and...

milesleacy · 02-13-2018

Hi Nation! I'm hoping someone has solved this problem. I am attempting to "Disable App Adoption by users" (restrict-store-disable-app-adoption) per the AppStore Payload per Apple's Configuration Profile Reference. The profile is delivered to the Macs...

milesleacy · 02-01-2018

Hey all, I'd like to put together a sub-community of those of us managing the largest Apple environments with Jamf tools and following Apple best practices. I'd like this sub-community to be people who are now, or are working toward in the next 12 mo...

milesleacy · 08-05-2017

I'm tinkering with web scraping in bash, and I'm getting a result, but it's inelegant and, I suspect, unreliable. What I'd love to learn how to do is to take the Xth table from a given web page, and place the contents of its rows and cells into a csv...

milesleacy · 08-02-2017

Hi Nation! I'm curious to hear what pros and cons you've discovered or reasoned in regard to having both institutional and individual FileVault keys. I can think of one of each... Pro: IT has a fallback option if individual key escrow fails. Con: A m...

milesleacy · 06-20-2019

No criteria does, in fact, net all computers. I expect that if Jamf ever change this, they will provide fair warning before changing this decade-plus of consistent behavior. This is the only way I know of that one can scope to a site (without giving ...

milesleacy · 04-10-2019

Hi all, I now have the time to further develop this concept. Please reach out to me @milesleacy on MacAdmins Slack if you're interested.

milesleacy · 01-12-2019

These answers are based on the functionality of Jamf Pro alone. Your organization may have additional tools with additional capabilities or custom scripting/coding to augment Jamf Pro features. Yes No No No (also of note, the camera status LED is lin...

milesleacy · 01-12-2019

The fine folks from the Office for Mac team at Microsoft have provided this list of Office for Mac Preferences amongst other valuable resources at macadmins.software

milesleacy · 01-12-2019

install third party applications at will. This also makes them susceptible of installing malware and viruses. The compensating controls for user-installed software are Gatekeeper and code signing, the built-in malware protection in macOS, SIP, T2, an...

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