Using mdmclient on macOS
I mentioned mdmclient when I gave the talk on the inner workings of Mobile Device Management, or MDM. There, I spent a lot of time on APNs and profiles, but just kinda’ spoke about mdmclient in terms...
View ArticleNew -N Option in the Profiles Command
10.12.4 gives us a new option to recheck enrollment via DEP! You can now use the -N flag to recheck a DEP configuration and, if a computer is not enrolled in the correct listing, move the enrollment....
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Jamf Now, Now In German And Japanese
If you’re in need of MDM in Japanese or German, Jamf Now shipped support for those languages last week. To switch languages, click on your name once logged in, and then click on the language you would...
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Work On Documents As A Team Without Driving Your Teammates Crazy
My latest Inc.com piece is about collaborating on documents was just published. Collaboration is a huge business buzzword these days. And nowhere does that feel more real than when teams work together...
View ArticleIs This Bash Command A Builtin?
Builtin commands are always kinda’ interesting. At first glance, it’s hard to know which commands are builtins. Luckily, there’s a command that I rarely use, called… command. If you run command with...
View ArticleEnable Modern Authentication for Office 365
I covered managing devices based on policy in http://krypted.com/microsoft-exchange-server/manage-activesync-policies-on-ios-using-powershell-in-exchange-2016/. One of those policies is “modern...
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Precache Now Pulls Models From Jamf Pro
Added 3 new flags into precache tonight: –jamfserver, –jamfuser, and –jamfpassword. These are used to provide a Jamf Pro server (or cloud instance), the username to an account that can list the mobile...
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Scripting Instances On Google Cloud From A Mac
Over the users I’ve written a good bit about pushing a workload off to a virtual machine sitting in a data center somewhere. The Google CloudPlatform has matured a lot and I haven’t really gotten...
View ArticleEpisode 37 of the MacAdmins Podcast: F/OSS MDMs with Victor Vrantchan and...
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View ArticleEarly Bird Registration for the MacDeployment Conference Extended to Thursday
From Anthony Reimer: The MacDeployment Conference in Calgary, Alberta, Canada has extended the “early bird” registration rate through this Thursday. Only CAD$179+GST gets you a 2-day conference with a...
View ArticleList of ISO Country Codes
The following is a list of ISO country codes: AFGHANISTAN AF ALBANIA AL ALGERIA DZ AMERICAN SAMOA AS ANDORRA AD ANGOLA AO ANTARCTICA AQ ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA AG ARGENTINA AR ARMENIA AM ARUBA AW AUSTRALIA...
View ArticleEpisode 38 of the MacAdmin Podcast, with plenty of WWDC predictionating
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Let IT Make Your Business More Tech Savvy
My latest Inc.com piece is up and available at https://www.inc.com/charles-edge/5-ways-your-it-staff-can-make-your-business-more-tech-savvy.html. It starts a bit like this (or totally like this as the...
View ArticleAugmenting defaults domain settings within Apps
Some apps have defaults domains that don’t work the same as other apps and you need to use the -app option in defaults. This option is available for most apps, and sometimes I’ll use it to specifically...
View ArticleEpisode 39 of the MacAdmin Podcast, from MacDevOps
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View ArticleUse DNS To Improve Caching Service Discoverability
Clients discover the Apple Caching service bundled with macOS Server (and in the future macOS) automatically. You can create a text recored for _aaplcache._tcp on your DNS server. That would look...
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IT Isn’t Just To Fix Stuff: My Latest @Inc Post
My latest @inc piece is up at https://www.inc.com/charles-edge/5-ways-your-it-staff-can-make-your-business-more-tech-savvy.html. Remember Nick Burns, the “company computer guy” played by Jimmy Fallon...
View ArticleEpisode 41 of the MacAdmins Podcast with Taylor Boyko of SimpleMDM
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View ArticleEpisode 42 of the MacAdmins Podcast, with Nick McSpadden of Facebook
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Ways to work together with your employees to help keep their skills sharp
My latest inc.com piece is available at https://www.inc.com/charles-edge/your-employees-want-extra-training-but-youre-going-to-have-to-help-them-get-star.html. It starts off like this, if it’s your...
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