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Sync Photo Albums To Your Apple Watch
I keep looking for more and more ways to have my Apple Watch be really functional without having it talk to my phone when I need the function it’s performing. One of those can easily be looking at...
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JAMF Nation User Conference 2015 Tickets Now Available! #jnuc
Join us for the 2015 JNUC! WHEN: October 13-15, 2015 WHERE: Guthrie TheaterMinneapolis, MN WHY: Be a part of the largest gathering of Apple system administrators in the world. RSVP to attend Last...
View ArticleUpdate The Software Of Your Apple Watch
The first Apple Watch update appeared a few days ago. This update brings with it “improved performance” for Siri, different elements of activity tracking, accessibility and third party support. 1.0.1...
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Discount: Register for MacIT 2015 by June 1st
July 14–16, 2015 | Santa Clara, California New enterprise iOS insights. New reasons to attend MacIT. Register now – Save $300 » MacIT is back—and it’s packed with practical, high-value insights for...
View ArticleCaffeinate Your Commands
The caffeinate command is pretty cool. It keeps your computer from going to sleep. It can run in a couple of different ways. There’s a timer that prevents sleep for a little while. You can also run...
View ArticleSome Command Line java Debugging Options
There’s an excellent tool that can be used to grab a heap dump from a Java process. It’s called jmap. To do so, run the jmap command, followed by a format and a file path as the format and file...
View ArticleGrab Your WAN IP In Scripts
Sometimes when I’m writing a script, I need something to phone home to something in the script. For example, this can tell another daemon where to ssh into when I invoke it remotely. So, let’s say I...
View ArticleDisable Autocorrect In OS X Automated Workflows
I mess computers up a lot. And that means I have to reload operating systems a lot. I’ve also been having terrible issues caused by autocorrect. So… Let’s disable it. By sending the...
View ArticleUsing Inputs in Bash Scripts
You can easily accept user provided input in bash by using the read command in bash for Linux and OS X. Here, we’ll echo out a choice to a user in a script, read the output into a variable called yn...
View ArticleRemoving Those Thousands Of Empty Directories In Bash
Earlier, we looked at creating thousands of empty directories. Today, we’re going to get rid of them. But we need to get rid of only empty directories. To do so, we’ll use the find command: find ....
View ArticleHide Safari’s Bookmarks Bar
Safari has a bookmarks bar. Some people want to hide it. A lot of people used to do stuff like this by modifying the default user template in OS X. Not something we’ll be doing much in the future. So...
View ArticleMy Page for Mac and iOS Conferences
Conferences for Apple Systems Administrators have been popping up all over the place. There are the ones that have been around forever, like MacIT and then there are new conferences that sprung up in...
View ArticleDisable Active Directory Accounts Using PowerShell
You can disable an Active Directory account using the Disable-ADAccount PowerShell commandlet. To do so, use the -Identity option along with the SAMAccountName of the account to disable. Here, we’ll...
View ArticleFind or Kill A Signal By Name In OS X
You can query whether a process is running by name. You can do this with ps and pipe the output to grep. It’s not hard, but you can do this more quickly with pgrep. You can also kill that process with...
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Coming to the Mac Admin & Developer Conference in the UK
In case you haven’t heard, there’s a cool new Apple conference for Mac Admins and Developers. It’s in London, and put on by the excellent people at Amsys. The site for the conference, being held in...
View ArticleScripting Volume Control in OS X
I’ve always found the easiest way to script the volume of an OS X computer (and when I say volume I mean sound level, not a logical volume created from partitioning a hard drive – but I have articles...
View ArticleUnlock Locked Active Directory Accounts Using PowerShell
You can use the Unlock-ADAccount PowerShell commandlet to unlock an Active Directory account. This can be helpful, for example, as a Self Service option in a Casper server. To do so, run the...
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5 Considerations for SMBs That Want To Move To Apple
Little article I/Bushel contributed to from Tech Republic covering considerations for small businesses looking to move to the Apple platform. It’s available at...
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