I am a humble personal assistant, with reminders about InstaDMG
Hey folks,It's been a while since we InstaDMG-ers were at the forefront of people's minds, and it may seem like the whole IT landscape has changed. I wanted to briefly drop you a line with a few...
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Garageband Deployment Quick Tip
As discovered by @tvsutton and reported on ##osx-server IRC, the Mac App Store version of Garageband’s assets (which are downloaded on first-launch, all 1.57GBs…) can be fetched in...
View ArticleCalling all ears! AFP548 has a podcast!
AFP548 has always been about community: like-minded folks found their way to the Apple platform, and some of us even made a career out of supporting “Enterprise at your own risk”(copyright Nate...
View ArticleEpisode One – How Far Back Do You Wanna Go?
For this installment we’re joined by Ed Marczak, with Graham Gilbert hosting. Topics range from hiring to presentations, with a little bit of working in open source at scale. Show...
View ArticleEpisode Two – Eco-Sphere
Pepijn Bruienne is this weeks Master of Ceremonies, with Charles Edge along for the ride. Beside hot-button, buzz-worthy subjects like LA USD’s iPad deployment and BYO(Apple)D, they find time to talk...
View ArticleEpisode Three – 10 Seconds to Do Something Interesting
Recorded just prior to the Mavericks release, the dulcet tones of Mike Boylan host this weeks installment of the Cylinder of Destiny. He’s joined by the original triangle magician, Tim Perfitt of...
View ArticleEpisode Four – Don’t Stab Yourself in the Leg, Then
When we last caught glimpse of our heroes, MacSysAdmin Conference was still around the corner and there was nothing automatic about damage. Here in episode four, Ed Marczak turns the (significantly...
View ArticleEpisode Five – Goodbye Burrito
The current stewards of AFP548 step to the mic this week. Recorded live-ish at Mac Tech Conference 2013, Nate Walck and Sam Keeley are joined by Michael Lynn(a.k.a. Frogor, a.k.a. Satan,) Joe Wollard,...
View ArticlePlease Stand By (No Podcast This Week)
Hey folks,Through a quite unexpected streak, we were able to produce and release 6 episodes of season one of the AFP548 podcast every two weeks up until now – our thanks go out to all those who’ve...
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Announcement (Cross Post) – JSS Add-On for Autopkg
Over on the 318.com blog I’ve announced a new ‘processor’ add-on that can be installed with autopkg, which therefore can leverage the JSS API to fulfill many of the functions which up until present...
View ArticleEpisode Six – Mainstream Vocal Jazz
Seb Nash makes his hosting debut, joined by Luis Giraldo of Ook Enterprises. They talk about how Luis got to where he is, consultants as salespeople, and the perils of wireless deployments at tech...
View ArticleEpisode Seven – Perfunctory Munki Mention
A vacation for your ears comes mid-winter as Pepijn Bruienne in thunderstorm-y Michigan returns to join Mac Admin (and new father) Derick Okihara in not-snowy Hawaii. Arek Dreyer and Ben Greisler get a...
View ArticleAFP548 2014 Product/Platform Poll
UPDATE: We’ve gotten 100 responses, which is great! …And also the limit on the form we used :( Sorry!Thanks to everyone who responded, I’ll clean up the results and make a follow-up post soon. In the...
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AFP548 – 2014 Products and Platforms Poll
It’s always helpful to get help from a community of your peers, and our recent survey was an attempt to start having us all check in every once in a while as a group with data about how we maintain and...
View ArticleEpisode Nine – Change the People
Pardon the break, we’re back with a long-ago recorded episode to give you all flashbacks to the MacIT conference, audibly. Hopefully the sound quality is passable, as it was recorded under less-than...
View ArticleVideo from JSS-autopkg-addon Presentation
JSS-autopkg-addon Presentation from Allister Banks on Vimeo.On June 26th, I had the pleasure of being invited by @Tecnico1931 to the NYC Metro JAMF user group meeting.A worksheet I created for this...
View ArticleCreate 100′s of Autopkg Recipes With This One Weird Trick
If you’re like me, you love autopkg. You don’t even want to perform web searches for download links anymore. I’m told there are certain things that can’t be automated. But, when I first saw that many...
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Look Less Silly on Github
And with Git in GeneralSo you’ve gotten ok with scripts, or at least have tasked yourself with sorting through and in some cases slinging around plain text files. You’ve even heard about this Github...
View ArticleOff-Season Episode, Live from the Penn State Mac Admins Conference
Interrupting the offseason, here’s a discussion we recorded between Tim Perfitt and Dave Test, live at the 2014 Penn State Mac Admins Conference. Tim gives a little background about how iBeacon and...
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Proactive Mac Security: osquery
There are two reputations(at least) that your faithful writer is hoping to shake: #1, I do not work for Google. #2, I am not the ‘osquery guy’. I don’t even know any C++! (I’m going to make time for...
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