The story of trust destroyed | JNUC 2020

The truth about MDM Migration: Journey through time as Jamf consulting engineer me and Rob Potvin will talk about the current design of the Apple MDM protocol and what the migration process looks like for moving existing devices from one MDM to another. This can be fairly difficult, but success is possible with a bit of time, effort and planning. It is not really migrating, but destroying trust. Presentation Video Tools ReEnroller...

October 1, 2020 · 1 min

Securely Store Passwords

Securely store Passwords into the macOS Keychain Why put cleartext passwords in scripts, when we can use the macOS Keychain to securely store this information for us. How to have a easy way to include this into your scripts, so we can have a placeholder for the password rather then leaking this password within the script. How to We are going to add an PASSWORD into the macOS Keychain with the security command....

September 4, 2020 · 2 min

Off-boarding in a Modern Deployment | JNUC 2019

Imaging is dead. Secure Boot and the T2 system controller have changed the toolset available to Mac administrators. The new post-imaging world of Mojave requires new workflows. We learn about the role that ‘off-boarding’ or the erase/install step has in the modern macOS deployment cycle. In this session, we will explore the startosinstall command in detail and learn about its uses and limitations. Finally, we will introduce a few workflows and tools (Erase&Install....

November 25, 2019 · 1 min

Automation Panel | JNUC 2018

In this JNUC session, we talk through some of the details of automating various components of your Apple environment. How to automate your “favorite” workflows. Let’s face it — one of the main reasons many people come to the Jamf Nation User Conference (JNUC) is to automate the crap out of their environment and have it run like a well-oiled machine. In this panel, we talk through some of the details of automating various components of your Apple environment, including Jamf....

October 24, 2018 · 1 min