Category: IT

Updates

Automating Mac Automated Device Enrollment Status

October 12, 2021

Shops that refurbish Macs have a problem: when a Mac already used by an organization is sold to a shop (with the shop later wanting …

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Trusting Certificates in System Keychain without Prompting

August 20, 2021

Note: This no longer works due to SIP protection on macOS after Big Sur A common activity when deploying Macs in Enterprise and Education environments …

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Curtain Mode

October 23, 2020

I had feature request for our Secure Remote Access solution to lock a Mac locally while doing a screen sharing session to it. Apple Remote …

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Apple Ramps Up Fight against Malware with Notarization, Stapling, and Hardening

April 17, 2019

Apple recently announced that new Mac developer accounts (and eventually all mac developers) who distribute Mac apps outside the App Store will be required to …

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Automating macOS and Package installation from the Recovery Partition

August 23, 2018

With the death of netboot and imaging, there is a need for automated refreshing of the macOS and initial package installation. Apple is moving towards using …

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Disable SIP quickly

August 20, 2018

Update: It looks like this no longer works and was deemed a security issue and fixed. Booting into Recovery mode can take a while since …

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