If you are familiar with Jamf Pro's (formerly the JSS/Casper Suite's) model of smart groups and extension attributes (or EA's), they provide a way to run code that can (among other things) inventory the state of a computer.
For the next stop in our journey, we'll review that jolly ol' soul, Santa. It's a system for either monitoring what apps are launched and blacklisting the ones you decide are bad, or locking down a macOS computer to only run the ones you've whitelisted.
Just a quick one, to remind you that there are ways you can have a dialog with users about tightening security controls. We're beating the drum about Flash dying a death, and haven't included it in our image since the Great Analytics Fiasco of 20.0.0.235.
There are two reputations(at least) that your faithful writer is hoping to shake: #1, I do not work for Google. #2, I am not the 'osquery guy'. I don't even know any C++! (I'm going to make time for this eventually, though.
Let's say your company is a place where no one works day-to-day logged in as an admin on their Mac.
Just in time for WWDC, another special guest on the Frogor 45 - Tim Sutton, of Mac Operations fame, here to discuss things non-Adobe... like mcxToProfile.
Just a quick post for folks that missed it (I follow Clay on the twitters but got notice it was happening a bit too late), the well-regarded 'Managing Macs at Google Scale' talk Clay Caviness and Ed Eigerman gave for LISA '13 was revisited for their video series, embedded below.
Welcome to the first episode of the 2016 edition or the Frogor 45. Pardon that we're going to need a bit of time between our episodes from here on. We have a special guest, Pepijn Bruienne, who will be discussing things both MDM and DEPy.
You've read the Mule, you've read Ars, and folks like Mactracker have gone out and moved their feed to https like good citizens. But what about those old, abandoned apps we still want to keep using? Well, this is why it's called risk management and not fire-proofing.
SetupAssistant.app has many fun hidden dot files in /var/db/ and Pepijn Bruienne (@bruienne) has found another good one: /var/db/.MBSkipWiFiSetupIfPossible This dot file will make SetupAssistant skip the WiFi setup portion of the setup in some cases.
