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munki
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Starting role as MAC admin
In the non-MDM tool space, look into Munki https://www.munki.org/munki/
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Sonoma's log gets briefer and more secretive
this experience is an indication that the opco didn't hire the right expertise. If the numbers you quoted ie 30k desktops, 50k total were not macs, it's clear that the org didn't have the kind of mac experience needed to manage a a new org with all macs.
It's entirely possible for administration of macs.
Start networking/asking around with places like Disney or Pixar, etc which have a large amount of graphic artists using macs. For example, from Disney https://github.com/munki/munki gets you to a certain point.
Other tools like Kandji (lightweight) and the 900 lb gorilla in the industry Jamf gets you the other management / administration bits needed
If this opco that you referred to never got a Jamf rep to work with them and to try out their (yes, very expensive) products, then this is mostly inexperience with the mac ecosystem.
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Show HN: Applite – Clean Homebrew front end app for macOS built with SwiftUI
There's a decent open source option: https://github.com/munki/munki
I got to use it at work at Meta (as end user), and it seemed to work quite well. They delivered Android SDKs/IDEs and a bunch of other things that I'd personally install through Brew with Munki.
- Employee monitoring softwares
- Simple App to help Mac Admins
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Boss refuses all MDMs. Any way to automate or script deployment?
Munki is not an MDM and I recently learned there's this project called Installomator that might help.
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Training recommendations?
Or Munki
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Cannot get Munki Managed Software Center to populate with my catalog?
This is a feature of munki called default manifest resolution. Though I prefer to avoid this and explicitly set the client identifier for all devices.
- I have this old G4 cube. It has an interesting decal on it.
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Giving non-admins privilege's for updating programs? Adding Printers?
another option is munki https://github.com/munki/munki, for the software update part,
ProfileCreator
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The Right to Lie and Google’s “Web Environment Integrity”
> How many users have devices that they are really administrators of? Fewer and fewer.
As long as nobody has forced you to join your computer to a domain and accept the installation of group-policy overrides, you're still fundamentally an administrator of that machine.
You might not ever feel the need to administrate it, because the OS vendor is often co-administering the machine (see: Windows or macOS when you use a local account rooted in their cloud SSO) but the OS vendor hasn't restricted you from doing your own administration in the way that a corporation or institution administering the domain your device belongs to would restrict you. You still have the ambient authority to administer your machine, whether you ever bother to elevate yourself or not.
You can still install your own X.509 roots of trust. Even on, say, iOS! (You must administer the iOS device using tools — e.g. https://github.com/ProfileCreator/ProfileCreator — that run outside of the device on a "real computer"; but that's just a fact of history, to do with how system administrators generally prefer to interact with computers, not a property of the target device's security. A config profile is just a file format; if someone ever wanted to make a profile editor that ran on iOS itself, they could.)
(And if we're talking about a machine that is corporate or institutionally controlled? Well, then it's the responsibility of the people who manage your device — your IT department — to decide whether a given cert should be given trust.)
> What is the technical challenge of setting up your own HTTP server that can be browsed with an off the shelf browser on your local computer?
The approach where you run a proxy that wraps untrusted connections into trusted ones is fully general, but yes, only really applicable to the most advanced users. But then, only the most advanced users really need the full power of this approach. Only someone with a lot of experience in network security should consider themselves capable of vouchsafing a non-TLS HTTP connection as worth being trusted. You have to basically come up with an "attestation heuristic" for the remote yourself — that it stays on the same IP, that its DNS records haven't changed owner, that the server is still sending the same Server response header, etc.
If your needs are slightly weaker — if you can assume that every remote is at least using self-signed TLS certs rather than not using TLS at all — then the problem is vastly simplified: you can directly trust any cert by putting it that cert directly into your X.509 trust store (in effect making it a root-of-trust — though it doesn't have the X.509 property that enables other certs signed by the cert to be trusted transitively, so it's a leaf-node root-of-trust. A "stump of trust", if you will.) You don't need to run any local servers to do this.
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Users using their own Icloud.
I don't have much experience with Jamf specifically so I don't know if they have a tool for this, but you can you software like iMazingand ProfileCreator to create the profiles from a GUI and then push the profiles from to devices using Jamf. Using either of these apps, under "Restrictions", you'll be able to deselect whatever iCloud service you want to be blocked and then save it to a profile.
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Custom JSON Configuration Profiles
In Mosyle in the management profiles section you have an option called Certificates/Custom Profiles, there you can upload a .mobileconfig created with for example Profile creator: https://github.com/ProfileCreator/ProfileCreator which nicely includes the Nudge schema and other common used apps :-), this should be the same effect than in the JAMF video, its almost the same thing instead of cut an paste from the AJMF article, upload de .mobileconfig created by the App.
- How can I have a user account which absolutely CANNOT access the internet?
- Need assistance building .mobileconfig files for 3rd Party apps?
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Is there a bash command for a device to give permissions for remote session control apps like Zoom/LogMeIn?
There are many examples and several ways to generate a profile that will grant the appropriate perms, personally I have used ProfileCreator: https://github.com/ProfileCreator/ProfileCreator
- How do I edit plists using Xcode?
- How do I allow non admins to Screen-share from payload/profile in macOS via MDM (workspace one in my case)?
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Custom MacOS configuration profiles
On a side note, you might try this for manually creating profiles. https://github.com/ProfileCreator/ProfileCreator
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iOS supervised device settings possibility question
If you have a Mac available ProfileCreator works well as an alternative to Apple Configurator, and it has a few more options.
What are some alternatives?
HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
PPPC-Utility - Privacy Preferences Policy Control (PPPC) Utility
Installomator - Installation script to deploy standard software on Macs
Vlad the Deployer
openhaystack - Build your own 'AirTags' 🏷 today! Framework for tracking personal Bluetooth devices via Apple's massive Find My network.
Capistrano - A deployment automation tool built on Ruby, Rake, and SSH.
ProfileManifestsMirror - Jamf JSON schema manifests automatically generated from ProfileCreator manifests (https://github.com/ProfileCreator/ProfileManifests)
Mina - Blazing fast deployer and server automation tool
mcxToProfile - Convert macOS property lists, defaults and MCX into Configuration Profiles with Custom Settings payloads
Stack Up - Super simple deployment tool - think of it like 'make' for a network of servers
outset - Automatically process packages, profiles, and scripts during boot, login, or on demand.