Friday, October 25, 2019

Who can add workstation to the domain – Dubai Security Blog

Who can add workstation to the domain – Dubai Security Blog: Hello It's Rafal Sosnowski from Microsoft Dubai Security PFE Team. During my numerous Security Audits and Assessments I deliver to customers, I usually discover too wide permissions and user rights configured in Active Directory. One of them is “Add Workstation to the Domain”. There are 3 items that might influence who can add computer to...

MacSysAdmin 2019

MacSysAdmin 2019

Adobe Package Downloader

Adobe Package Downloader: Steps to download Creative Cloud packages for macOS computers using the Adobe Package Downloader.

How to Fix a Damaged macOS Installer - MacRumors

How to Fix a Damaged macOS Installer - MacRumors: Creating a macOS installer on a bootable USB drive provides a convenient way of installing a fresh copy of macOS on multiple Macs, and also allows...

macOS installer application damaged? Redownload to repair - 9to5Mac

macOS installer application damaged? Redownload to repair - 9to5Mac: If you are getting an error about macOS application installers being damaged, you'll need to redownload them to get a new certificate.

Widespread MacOS installer flaw: “This copy of the Install macOS Mojave application is damaged, and can’t be used to install macOS” | Alex4D

Widespread MacOS installer flaw: “This copy of the Install macOS Mojave application is damaged, and can’t be used to install macOS” | Alex4D: Need to fix a Mac by reinstalling macOS? If you downloaded its installer before October 2019, you might not be …

The Apple Packagepocalypse, 2019 Edition… - Robert Hammen - Medium

The Apple Packagepocalypse, 2019 Edition… - Robert Hammen - Medium: Apple uses certificates to digitally sign their installer packages (which are embedded inside their OS installers). A few Mac admins noted that the primary certificate, and the intermediate…

Sunday, October 20, 2019

Nepharus/ARDBackup: Apple Remote Desktop Backup Utility

Nepharus/ARDBackup: Apple Remote Desktop Backup Utility: Apple Remote Desktop Backup Utility. Contribute to Nepharus/ARDBackup development by creating an account on GitHub.

Acorn 6 | Full Featured Photo Editor for the Mac

Acorn 6 | Full Featured Photo Editor for the Mac: Acorn is an awesome image editor for the Mac. Use Acorn to edit photos, add filters, retouch pictures, paint, crop, add text, create new images, and much more!

jazzace/mactech-2019-autopkg: Files and resources from my presentation at the 2019 MacTech Conference

jazzace/mactech-2019-autopkg: Files and resources from my presentation at the 2019 MacTech Conference: Files and resources from my presentation at the 2019 MacTech Conference - jazzace/mactech-2019-autopkg

About This Guide - Jamf Pro Administrator's Guide | Jamf

About This Guide - Jamf Pro Administrator's Guide | Jamf

Suppressing the Screen Time pop-up window with a profile on macOS Catalina | Der Flounder

Suppressing the Screen Time pop-up window with a profile on macOS Catalina | Der Flounder

Michael Tsai - Blog - Beware Apple Security Certificates After October 24

Michael Tsai - Blog - Beware Apple Security Certificates After October 24

10 Docker Image Security Best Practices | Snyk

10 Docker Image Security Best Practices | Snyk

Monday, October 14, 2019

Enable automatic macOS and App Store updates on macOS Catalina with a profile | Der Flounder

Enable automatic macOS and App Store updates on macOS Catalina with a profile | Der Flounder: A while back, I wrote a post on enabling automatic software updates on OS X Yosemite through macOS Mojave. As part of the post, I mentioned that it wasn’t possible to manage the options for a…

How bad is Catalina? It's almost Apple Maps bad: MacOS 10.15 pushes Cupertino's low bar for code quality lower still • The Register

How bad is Catalina? It's almost Apple Maps bad: MacOS 10.15 pushes Cupertino's low bar for code quality lower still • The Register: Devs lament 'trash fire' 'Windows Vista-like' release

How To Set up SSH Keys on a Linux / Unix System - nixCraft

How To Set up SSH Keys on a Linux / Unix System - nixCraft: Explains how to set up SSH Keys for public key authentication on a Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OS X/macOS or Unix based systems.

Apple's List of 235 Apps that are incompatible with macOS Catalina - The Tape Drive

Apple's List of 235 Apps that are incompatible with macOS Catalina - The Tape Drive: A bundle called IncompatibleAppsList.bundle found in /Library/Apple/Library/Bundles/ in macOS Catalina contains a of list of 235 apps that are incompatible with Catalina.

Why macOS Catalina is breaking so many apps, and what to do about it - The Verge

Why macOS Catalina is breaking so many apps, and what to do about it - The Verge: Apple’s latest Mac update, macOS Catalina, was released earlier this week, and with it came a flurry of complications both minor and major. Here’s how to maneuver these important questions: what’s wrong with Catalina, should you upgrade, and why you might want to hold off.

Introduction to the Intel Management Engine OS (Part 1) | Peter Bosch’s website

Introduction to the Intel Management Engine OS (Part 1) | Peter Bosch’s website: Examining the ME firmware version 11.0

HCS Technology Group - macOS Catalina: A Guide to Your System Preferences

HCS Technology Group - macOS Catalina: A Guide to Your System Preferences: Apple Macintosh Consulting, New York Mac Service, Mac Repair NY, Apple Service & Repair NY, Macintosh Apple Support NY, Mac Server Support, MacBook Repair NY, Long Island Mac Service, Macintosh Apple Support Long Island, Mac Server Support Long Island

How to stop GoogleSoftwareUpdate.app from trying to run on your Mac | iMore

How to stop GoogleSoftwareUpdate.app from trying to run on your Mac | iMore: Google likes to grab personal information using a Mac app that acts like malware. Remove it forever by following these steps.

Episode 132: Greg Neagle’s Panoply of Python — Mac Admins Podcast — Overcast

Episode 132: Greg Neagle’s Panoply of Python — Mac Admins Podcast — Overcast

Friday, October 11, 2019

Why and how to stress test your Mac fans and CPU

Why and how to stress test your Mac fans and CPU: This tutorial shows you how to stress test Mac with Terminal so you can ensure your processor's cores and colling fans are working right.

Enabling root on a Mac which hasn’t gone through macOS Catalina’s Setup Assistant | Der Flounder

Enabling root on a Mac which hasn’t gone through macOS Catalina’s Setup Assistant | Der Flounder: On certain occasions, it may be necessary to configure settings on a Mac which has not yet gone through Apple’s Setup Assistant. This process usually involves enabling the root account and se…

Clarification regarding the status of Identity Management for Unix (IDMU) & NIS Server Role in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview and beyond – Active Directory Documentation Team

Clarification regarding the status of Identity Management for Unix (IDMU) & NIS Server Role in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview and beyond – Active Directory Documentation Team: Note: The original blog article has been updated to address a number of questions we received and to further clarify what has been removed and what remains. Due to the Active Directory Documentation Blog being retired in October 2015, the comments have been removed. Please post your questions/comments in the Directory Services TechNet Forum. With...

How to Manage Catalina's New Application Notifications with a Profile

How to Manage Catalina's New Application Notifications with a Profile: MacOS Catalina 10.15 introduced a new feature called Application Notifications. I will show you how to manage Notification Preferences with a Config Profile

Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Working with APFS Volume Groups | Carbon Copy Cloner | Bombich Software

Working with APFS Volume Groups | Carbon Copy Cloner | Bombich Software

Similar to User Approved Kernel Extensions (UAKEL) and Privacy Preferences Policy Control (PPPC) in earlier macOS versions, Catalina will now prompt users to allow Notifications from each app. Administrators can manage these prompts using a Configuration Profile. These profiles do not require User Approved MDM.

Similar to User Approved Kernel Extensions (UAKEL) and Privacy Preferences Policy Control (PPPC) in earlier macOS versions, Catalina will now prompt users to allow Notifications from each app. Administrators can manage these prompts using a Configuration Profile. These profiles do not require User Approved MDM.: Similar to User Approved Kernel Extensions (UAKEL) and Privacy Preferences Policy Control (PPPC) in earlier macOS versions, Catalina will now prompt users to allow Notifications from each app. Administrators can manage these prompts using a Configuration Profile. These profiles do not require User Approved MDM. - Manage App Notifications.bash

MacSysAdmin 2019

MacSysAdmin 2019

macOS 10.15 Catalina: The Ars Technica review | Ars Technica

macOS 10.15 Catalina: The Ars Technica review | Ars Technica: iPad apps come to the Mac and old 32-bit apps go away in a wide-ranging update.

Preventing the macOS Catalina upgrade advertisement from appearing in the Software Update preference pane on macOS Mojave | Der Flounder

Preventing the macOS Catalina upgrade advertisement from appearing in the Software Update preference pane on macOS Mojave | Der Flounder: Not yet ready for macOS Catalina in your environment, but you’ve trained your folks to look at the Software Update preference pane to see if there’s available updates? One of the ways A…

prowarehouse-nl / erase-install — Bitbucket

prowarehouse-nl / erase-install — Bitbucket

Google Keystone update breaks Macs’ ability to boot if System Integrity Protection is disabled | Der Flounder

Google Keystone update breaks Macs’ ability to boot if System Integrity Protection is disabled | Der Flounder: On the evening of Monday, September 23rd, a number of film and TV editors started reporting that their workstations were not rebooting successfully. The problem was initially blamed on the Media Co…

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

How To Save A File In Vim / Vi Without Root Permission With sudo - nixCraft

How To Save A File In Vim / Vi Without Root Permission With sudo - nixCraft: Save a file in Vim without root permission with sudo without creating a third file in vim/vi using sudo and tee command combination on a Linux/Unix/macOS.

How to protect yourself from ransomware using Windows 10 | Fox News

How to protect yourself from ransomware using Windows 10 | Fox News: Microsoft offers built-in ransomware protection for Windows 10. Here’s how to make sure you’re protected.

Google Chrome Keystone is Removing /var symlink on non SIP Macs Causing Boot Issues

Google Chrome Keystone is Removing /var symlink on non SIP Macs Causing Boot Issues: Reports that some AVID Users Macs would no longer boot. It now may be that a Google Chrome Keystone update modifies /var on NON SIP Protected Macs.

Non-Admins Change Date & Time Settings? | Discussion | Jamf Nation

Non-Admins Change Date & Time Settings? | Discussion | Jamf Nation: Non-Admins Change Date & Time Settings? | Discussion

Demystifying `root` on macOS, Part 4 —The Authorization Database – Scripting OS X

Demystifying `root` on macOS, Part 4 —The Authorization Database – Scripting OS X: Beyond the Shell sudo allows you to gain super user privileges from the interactive shell. launchd, installer Packages, management systems and other tools will run scripts as root when required. Th…

erikng/nudge: A tool to help users with pre-existing devices upgrade their OS version.

erikng/nudge: A tool to help users with pre-existing devices upgrade their OS version.: A tool to help users with pre-existing devices upgrade their OS version. - erikng/nudge

Adjust SMB browsing behavior in macOS High Sierra 10.13 and later - Apple Support

Adjust SMB browsing behavior in macOS High Sierra 10.13 and later - Apple Support: In macOS High Sierra 10.13 and later, the default settings for browsing network folders such as Server Message Block (SMB) shares are ideal for most organizations and users. But you can make adjustments to optimize SMB browsing in enterprise environments.

(33) Best Practices for Deploying Platform SSO with Microsoft Entra ID–Michael Epping, Mark Morowczynski - YouTube

(33) Best Practices for Deploying Platform SSO with Microsoft Entra ID–Michael Epping, Mark Morowczynski - YouTube