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Renew v1.3 – New Features and Improvements
This week Second Son Consulting released Renew v1.3 with new features and improvements from Second Son Consulting and community contributors.
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Using Installomator with a Pinned Application Version
Installomator is a very robust and configurable tool intended to install the latest version of a given application directly from the official source. Latest is greatest, after all, right? Latest = Greatest = YOLO But what if you need one or more computers to stay on an older version of a particular software title? Last…
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You Got Your Installomator in my swiftDialog! Video available on YouTube
Last week PSU Mac Admins conference made all of their 2024 conference recordings available on YouTube. I hope you will find my talk on Installomator and swiftDialog informative and maybe even entertaining. This conference was an absolute pleasure to attend, it was very well run and the presentations were fantastic. The community truly is kind…
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PSU Mac Admins 2024 – Installomator swiftDialog Slides and Resources
PSU Mac Admins 2024 Github Repo PSU Mac Admins 2024 conference was a great time, and very well run. My presentation “You Got Your Installomator in my swiftDialog!” had a bigger turn out and better feedback than I ever could have hoped for.As part of my talk, I provided all of my example code and…
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Dialogomator – A GUI for Trying Out Installomator Labels
A nifty and entirely unnecessary GUI tool for testing or running Installomator labels.
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IconGrabber.sh: Find and Convert icns to png Easily | Mac Admins Utility
Today I am sharing a little utility script for Mac Admins. I often find I want to grab an icns file from an application for use in Self Service, a swiftDialog script, or a munki repo. I got tired of doing this manually, and wrote a script to programmatically grab icons and convert them to…
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Baseline v2.2 Feature Update
Two new features added to Baseline this week, improving on-boarding experience for you and your users.
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Baseline v2.0 Feature Update
Last week Baseline v2.0 was released, and its got some great new feature additions aimed at making the tool even more flexible. I’m excited to see folks use it in new and exciting ways. If you’re not familiar yet with Baseline, it’s an MDM agnostic zero touch or light touch solution for macOS. By leveraging…
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SpinUpVM.sh – A Convenience Script to Quickly Spin Up a macOS Test VM in UTM
As a Mac Admin I find myself constantly spinning up a new “Fresh” VM, tinkering, and then forgetting about it. I end up with a VM Library list a mile long. I recently discovered that UTM has a command line interface, and this inspired me to write a script to quickly clone, launch, and cleanup…
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Generate a new PayloadIdentifier and PayloadUUID with a zshell script
A shell script to quickly change out the UUIDs in a macOS/iOS/tvOS mobileconfig file
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