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Munki 2 Released
As announced today at MacSysAdmin 2014 in Gothenburg, Sweden, Munki 2 is now officially available! Munki 2 features an all-new user interface designed to mimic Apple’s App Store. Read about some of...
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MacSysAdmin Google+ group
As the MacSysAdmin conference continues in Gothenburg, Sweden, check out this Google+ group: https://plus.google.com/communities/107810455072575476604 or http://group.macsysadmin.se
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createOSXinstallPkg and Yosemite
If you are using or plan to use createOSXinstallPkg with Yosemite, make sure you have the latest version from here: https://github.com/munki/createOSXinstallPkg and you read this note:...
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MacTech Conference 2014: What’s New with Munki?
If you are attending my session on Thursday: “What’s new with Munki?” and want to follow along/participate in setting up your own Munki demo, don’t temp the WiFi gods. Download these things in advance:...
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Everything that is wrong with Oracle’s Java in one post
Rich Trouton with the details: https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=13567
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Pseudo-“Payload-free” pkgs with pkgbuild
“Payload-free” packages — that is, Apple installer packages that do not have a file payload, but only run scripts, are a nice tool for OS X admins to have. They provide a convenient way to deliver and...
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PSU MacAdmins 2015 Packaging Workshop
If you are participating in the Packaging Workshop on July 7th at the Penn State MacAdmins Conference, you may want to download some materials in advance when you aren’t competing with all the other...
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Preference Management with Profiles links
Here are links to some of the tools and resources I mention today in my MacSysAdmin 2015 presentation, Preference Management with Profiles: mcxToProfile: https://github.com/timsutton/mcxToProfile...
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MacSysAdmin 2016
Information and registration for MacSysAdmin 2016 is available: http://macsysadmin.se/2016/Home.html October 4-7, 2016 in Gothenburg, Sweden, MacSysAdmin continues to be a fantastic event for the Mac...
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Munki 2.7.0 released
https://github.com/munki/munki/releases/tag/v2.7.0 Head on over to GitHub for the details.
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Professional Training and Support for Munki
One of the objections some organizations have against using open source tools like Munki is that they want to pay for professional training and support. Amsys has professional training for Munki:...
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MacTech Conference 2016
I’ll be speaking at MacTech Conference 2016, November 16-18 in Los Angeles: http://conference.mactech.com You can save $600 on the registration costs if you register by May 31:...
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PSU Mac Admins 2016 Packaging Workshop Resources
Here are the resources you will need to effectively participate in the packaging workshop at PSU Mac Admins 2016 on Monday, June 27th. Save yourself some time and frustration by downloading these items...
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PSU Mac Admins 2016: Intro to Packaging materials
If you are attending my “Introduction to Packaging” session at PSU Mac Admins 2016 on Wed, June 29th, you can enhance your experience by having these items available in order to participate. Save...
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PSU Mac Admins 2016: Preference Management with Profiles links
Here are links to some of the tools and resources I mention in my PSU Mac Admins 2016 presentation, Preference Management with Profiles: mcxToProfile: https://github.com/timsutton/mcxToProfile...
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PSU Mac Admins 2016: Preference Management with Profiles
Slides from today’s presentation are here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8119814/PSU2016_PreferenceManagementWithProfiles.pdf
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PSU Mac Admins 2016: Packaging Workshop Slides
Slides from Monday’s workshop are here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8119814/PSUMac2016_PackagingWorkshop_PDFs.zip
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PSU Mac Admins 2016: Intro to Packaging Slides
Slides for my Wednesday PSU Mac Admins session – “Introduction to Packaging” are here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8119814/2016%20PSU%20MacAdmins%20Intro%20to%20Packaging.zip
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Stupid Tricks with createOSXinstallPkg and VMware Fusion
Like many people tasked with managing OS X/macOS machines, I use VMware Fusion to do a lot of testing. Fusion enables me to test in various versions of OS X, and to easily make changes and revert to a...
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MacSysAdmin 2016 Links
Here are links to various tools, documentation and blog posts I mention in my talk on Thursday at MacSysAdmin 2016: Outset: https://github.com/chilcote/outset Apple documentation on running code at...
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