#mac admins

This week it’s just us, and we’re going over all the news that’s fit to print, including 12.4 betas, the latest in security news, and more.

Hosts:

Tom Bridge, Principal Product Manager, JumpCloud – @tbridge777

Charles Edge, CTO, Bootstrappers.mn – @cedge318

Marcus Ransom, Senior Sales Engineer, Jamf – @marcusransom

Links:

Zero Day Vulns

https://twitter.com/ClassicII_MrMac/status/1512466769268588545

On env shebangs

https://system7.app/

https://macos8.app/

Fatboy Slim plays Brighton

Ocean Colour Scene – The day we caught the train

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Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

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Episode 269: Adobe Deployments

What are the latest options to deploy Adobe products onto Apple devices? It’s one of the oldest skills those of us who work on the platform need. In this episode we’ll dig into what the latest techniques are, some gotchas, and how to deliver the best experience possible to our users. We’re joined by Dom, who has been a support engineer in Adobe’s enterprise team for over 11 years to talk through all the different options now available – and how best to think about them!

Hosts:

Tom Bridge, Principal Product Manager, JumpCloud – @tbridge777

Charles Edge, CTO, Bootstrappers.mn – @cedge318

Guest

Dom, Adobe

Links:

Packaging:

https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/preparing-deploy.html

https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/enterprise-deployment-overview.html

https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/deploy-packages.html

https://www.adobe.com/howtobuy/buying-programs/compare.html

https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/create-sdl-packages.html

https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/customize-creative-cloud-app.html

Identity Integration:

https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/sso-overview.html

https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/user-sync.html

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/saas-apps/adobe-identity-management-provisioning-tutorial

https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/sso-setup-azure.html

https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/kb/configure-okta-with-adobe-sso.html

Sponsors:

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Rick Goody, Mike Boylan, Melvin Vives, William (Bill) Stites, Anoush d’Orville, Jeffrey Compton, M.Marsh, Hamlin Krewson, Adam Burg, A.J. Potrebka, James Stracey, Timothy Perfitt, Nate Cinal, William O’Neal, Sebastian Nash, Command Control Power, Stephen Weinstein, Chad Swarthout, Daniel MacLaughlin, Justin Holt, William Smith, and Weldon Dodd

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Flashcast 09: WWDC 2022

Join Tom, Charles, Marcus, & James as they discuss all the news from the first day of WWDC 2022

Hosts:

Tom Bridge, Principal Product Manager, JumpCloud – @tbridge777

Charles Edge, CTO, Bootstrappers.mn – @cedge318

Marcus Ransom, Senior Sales Engineer, Jamf – @marcusransom

James Smith, Engineer, ANZ – @smithjw​

Sponsor:

Kandji

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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

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Episode 268: WWDC Predictions

WWDC is coming up – what are we hoping to see this year? Marcus, Tom and Charles talk through everything they’re thinking of as we go into this year’s beta cycle.

Hosts:

Tom Bridge, Principal Product Manager, JumpCloud – @tbridge777

Marcus Ransom, Senior Sales Engineer, Jamf – @marcusransom

Charles Edge, CTO, Bootstrappers.mn – @cedge318

Sponsors:

Kandji

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Patreon Sponsors:

The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include:

Rick Goody, Mike Boylan, Melvin Vives, William (Bill) Stites, Anoush d’Orville, Jeffrey Compton, M.Marsh, Hamlin Krewson, Adam Burg, A.J. Potrebka, James Stracey, Timothy Perfitt, Nate Cinal, William O’Neal, Sebastian Nash, Command Control Power, Stephen Weinstein, Chad Swarthout, Daniel MacLaughlin, Justin Holt, William Smith, and Weldon Dodd

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Episode 266: The Mac Admins Foundation

The Mac Admins Foundation is a new non-profit organization benefitting the Mac Admins community. This week, Charles and Marcus sit down with the Board of the Foundation to discuss the organization’s mission, how it came to be, and what they’re working on.

Hosts:

Marcus Ransom, Senior Sales Engineer, Jamf – @marcusransom

Charles Edge, CTO, Bootstrappers.mn – @cedge318

Guest:

Tom Bridge, Co-Chair

Emily Kausalik-Whittle, Co-Chair

Rich Trouton, Treasurer

Chris Dawe, Secretary

Caleb Coy, Chair Emeritus

Links:

Donate to The Mac Admins Foundation

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Rick Goody, Mike Boylan, Melvin Vives, William (Bill) Stites, Anoush d’Orville, Jeffrey Compton, M.Marsh, Hamlin Krewson, Adam Burg, A.J. Potrebka, James Stracey, Timothy Perfitt, Nate Cinal, William O’Neal, Sebastian Nash, Command Control Power, Stephen Weinstein, Chad Swarthout, Daniel MacLaughlin, Justin Holt, William Smith, and Weldon Dodd

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Office for Mac 2011

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Lync have not been tested on macOS 10.13 High Sierra, and no formal support for this configuration will be provided.

All applications in the Office for Mac 2011 suite are reaching end of support on October 10th, 2017. As a reminder, after that date there will be no new security updates, non-security updates, free or paid assisted support options or technical content updates. Refer to the Microsoft Support Lifecycle for more information.

If you haven't already upgraded your fleet of Macs to Office 2016, now's the time.

Updates! Updates are great until they, well, break something…

Apple released version 3.9 of their Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) client and admin app earlier this week.

As I do too often, I installed all updates on our macOS Server without thinking twice, and ended up with a list full of “Needs Upgrade” in the Current Status column in the ARD admin app. All our client machines had ARD Client 3.8.5 installed, so the ARD admin app was no longer able to communicate with our client machines. Thankfully fixing this wasn’t too difficult!

I had two options:

SSH onto the client machines and run softwareupdate -l;sudo softwareupdate -i 'RemoteDesktopClient-3.9.0'

Host the update .pkg on our server, SSH onto the client machine, and run curl -o ~/Desktop/RemoteDesktopClient.pkg -O http://servername/RemoteDesktopClient.pkg;sudo installer -pkg ~/Desktop/RemoteDesktopClient.pkg -target /

I ended up going with option 2 because searching for updates with softwareupdate -l would take longer than downloading the .pkg from our server. A half hour or so later, all our client machines had ARD Client 3.9 installed!

But wait…

Not long after, I received an email from a colleague of mine saying the following pop-up appeared on her screen:

A quick restart of the ARD Agent using the kickstart utility fixed that issue.

sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -restart -agent

I haven’t tested it, but restarting the computer should also fix the pop-up window.

One more thing: if for some reason you can’t update the ARD client on your fleet of Macs, launch the Apple Remote Desktop admin app Preferences, go to the Security tab, and check the “Allow communication with older clients (less secure)” option. Doing that should allow you to do your thang until you update their client to 3.9. Thanks for the tip, Randy!