There will probably come a point in a Jamf Pro admin’s duties when they
find themselves with the need to provide a mechanism for users to add or
exclude their Mac to the scope of a Configuration Profile or Policy via
Self Service. An example would be...
This is a heads up for any organization using the Jamf Pro integration
with Cisco ISE... According to the Cisco rep on a call I had a short
time ago regarding Jamf's planned removal of Basic Authentication for
the Classic API in the Very Near Future ...
As of macOS Sonoma 14.4 using
"/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport
--getinfo" no longer returns info about the active Wi-Fi connection. If
you want to collect the active SSID for macOS 14.4 or later you...
Links for the macOS Monterey and Ventura specific Safari 17.4 installers
on Apple's CDN: macOS Ventura:
https://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/30/42/052-59885-A_5IXDIWICU3/q9megna20yvg9mnjssbc92f9ogq8w5itbx/Safari17.4VenturaAuto.pkg
macOS Monterey...
(Not Jamf Pro specific but I figure this is the most appropriate
channel) If you've been using Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) to manage
updates to Office for Mac you might have noticed that your Office apps
have been stuck on the October 2023 Office 16.7...
Booting into Recovery on ASi Macs and re-installing macOS will often get
you versions that 14.4 because it seems macOS updates don't necessarily
update the Recovery partition (if at all)
I could have sworn that once upon a time I'd read something which
mentioned JCDS utilized, or could utilize, AWS CloudFront as a CDN but
darn if I can find anything mentioning that now...
I had to look it up myself :-) as I generally went with using the
specific version, or the specific build when Apple had a dozen+ builds
of macOS 10.13.6. These days I just have the user do an Erase All
Contents and Settings, and if the macOS version...
@howie_isaacks Use the "--os=MAJOR_VERSION" option and it'll get you the
latest release of whatever macOS MAJOR_VERSION is (e.g. "--os=15" will
currently get you 15.5)
I don't have anything to suggest regarding the XPC error, but I did want
to ask if there's a reason that you're not using HTTPS for the DP? Since
downloading from a DP via HTTPS doesn't involve mounting the file system
as with SMB it imposes less ove...
Did Mac software development for Lockheed Martin and Netscape/Mozilla, founded FreePPP Group, spent a while managing computers (mostly Macs) in K12 EDU, now into enabling Mac users at the Enterprise level for a Fortune 25 company.
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