If the recent kerfluffle among autopkg folks (over GitHub shutting off TLS less-than 1.2) is any indication, a lot of people are still on 10.12.6. If I may editorialize for a second, this is probably contributed to by Apple's less-than-ideal planning, execution, and communication around the High Sierra release.
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.
Here's one that will make educators and education network administrators realllllly happy. There's a hidden gem in the AppleTV 6.1 update that was released today. In addition to Bonjour over UDP negotiation for AirPlay, iOS 7.1 devices will also look for AirPlay sources using Bonjour over bluetooth when doing its scan!
The Premise: Nick McSpadden and I were both working on a similar goal this week: getting Macs to connect to Wi-Fi at the loginwindow. By default, adding preferred wireless networks will only connect once a user is logged in, either via the networksetup command or Profiles.
The Context My OS X deployment workflow is a very hands-off approach.
Day Two was full of even more great sessions. The day started out with an overview of the changes in iOS 6. Following this was a general session covering Wireless in 2013 and later. Bill Wiecking went over the upcoming wireless technologies, what their technical specifications were and the challenges that would be associated with them.
One of the greatest new enterprise features in OS X Mt. Lion is its support of the DCE/RPC protocol in combination with Active Directory (AD) for use with 802.1x machine or user based certificate authentication.
Now that AppleTVs are becoming more prevalent in the enterprise and education, Apple has added Profile support for them. You can now manage certain aspects of the AppleTV using Profiles. One such aspect is wireless configurations, including 802.1x profiles for secure networks.
Apple released Apple TV Software Update 5.1 yesterday which includes several new enterprise friendly features, including support for 802.1X and the use of a proxy server. Both are configured via configuration profiles. Details are at the links below.
If you didn't catch this PSA from Greg Neagle earlier this month, it is worth a look. Mountain Lion now uses a https url to pull updates from Apple rather than simple a http url.
