A great dive by Rich Trouton into using MDM to manage the new privacy dialogs in macOS 10.14 Mojave: What this means is that you may be able to whitelist your most common interactions and prevent them from displaying dialogs. Read all about it on Rich’s Der Flounder blog.
Nice article by Rich Mogull @ TidBits on the new privacy settings in macOS 10.14 Mojave: For most Mac users, the most obvious and significant changes are the enhanced notifications and protections for managing access to core privacy-related data stores: Location, Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, and Photos. Read the article here. (h/t to scriptingosx)
To troubleshoot an issue with Windows 10 (especially boot-related issues), it can be handy to boot to Windows 10 that is not installed on a Boot Camp partition. It is relatively straightforward to create a bootable USB Flash drive to boot to the Windows 10 installer, and then open up a DOS prompt for troubleshooting….
After migrating my 2018 MacBook Pro from a 2017 MacBook Pro, I found that I could no longer authenticate in the Startup Security Utility on the recovery partition of 10.13 (High Sierra). The 2018 MacBook Pro had FileVault turned on and the 2017 MacBook Pro did not. I investigated some different methods to resolve this, and…
At this year’s PennState MacAdmin conference, we gave out over 500 sticker packs to attendees, and folks loved them. Since we had the graphics and people enjoyed them so much, we created stickers for iMessage on iOS and put them up in the App Store. Show your #macadmin love by download the stickers now on…
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 DEP and MDM, but that is not applicable for all scenarios, and tools such a bootstrappr and installr have come up to fill a need. These command line tools run…
Booting into Recovery mode can take a while since the UI has to load and a full disk check is done. There is a way to get into SIP faster: by going into single user mode in the recovery partition: To disable SIP quickly, reboot the Mac. At the startup chime, press Command-s-r (a good…
The 2018 MacAdmins conference is coming up fast and we are pulling out all the stops. We have a bunch of new updates and products to show off: Winclone 7 Pro: Enterprise Boot Camp Windows 10 Deployment. We have some exciting new developments on using Microsoft images and services to deploy Windows 10 to Macs, including…
(Web Video) Winclone 7 added bunch of new features for deploying Boot Camp as a package. Two of the new features can be used together for some powerful results: the ability to import a base image from the Windows 10 install media and the ability to do post customization.
I am really proud of the work we did on getting Macs to boot into a WinPE environment and imaging via MDT / SCCM. Check out the web seminar I did earlier this week that shows setting up a package to boot macs to WinPE.
Today we released Winclone 7, and it is the most ambitious release yet. Winclone images, migrates, and restores Boot Camp partitions on the Mac, both for consumers and for mass deployment in enterprise environments.
Twocanoes Software has released Winclone 7, a major upgrade to its award-winning Boot Camp imaging and migration software for the Mac. Winclone 7 features incremental imaging, a brand new interface, support for Microsoft MDT/SCCM and automatic configuration of Windows during the imaging process.
We updated Winclone, Boot Runner, TCM and Certificate Request this month. We also have some new support documents. Newsletter subscribers also receive 30% on updates and new software.
We are releasing a new app here at Twocanoes Software, and this is one that is especially exciting for me. The app is called Certificate Request and it makes it a breeze to get digital certificate from Active Directory to your key on your Mac.
We just released TCM 1.1 with a huge new feature: Screen Sharing. We have seen a bunch of folks in education loving it and see TCM as “Apple Classroom for Macs”. It was missing one key feature, though: screen sharing. So with the release of TCM 1.1, instructors and IT folks can automatically start screen sharing and connect to student macs with a click of a button.
Naperville, Illinois – Twocanoes Software is pleased to announce the release of Certificate Request, an innovative and powerful utility for the Mac that is used to request and install digital X.509 certificates directly from Active Directory. This utility automatically discovers all the required information from Active Directory. Once authenticated, requesting a digital certificate is a…
Winclone 6 can clone and restore in 2 different modes: file-based (WIM) or block-based. The differences are covered in the kbase article here. By default, Winclone 6 creates images using file-based imaging. If there are issues with the meta-data on a file (such as corrupt permissions, date, etc), Winclone may fail to complete the clone….
The TCS Cert Request tool can be used to request a certificate from Active Directory Certificate authority. A normal operation is to request a certificate as either a user or the computer. Both require a valid Kerberos ticket. Getting a kerberos ticket as an macOS user is easy. You just need to know the user…
I have created a macOS command line tool called “tcscertrequest” that submits requests to a Microsoft Certificate Authority from the macOS command line. The request is sent the same way it would be sent from a Windows computer so no modifications to the Windows infrastructure is required to work with the Mac. The history of…
Twocanoes Software has released TCM, a solution to manage Macs right from a web browser.
