macOS Sierra – Current Issues
Anyone noticing their CPU usage unusually high and fan’s spinning after the macOS Sierra update, well i’ve narrowed it down to a process, so couple of things so far seem to have…
Kerberos Authentication on Mac OS X with Google Chrome
Article adapated from Jeff Geerling (http://www.jeffgeerling.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/kerberos-authentication-mac-os): Kerberos authentication allows your computer to log into certain services automatically without you having to enter (and re-enter) your password (it’s a SSO—single sign-on—service). Kerberos v5…
Enable Remote Management on Mac OS X
You need to enable remote management on your mac machines to give you the ability to vnc using your local administrator credentials to easily remotely troubleshoot any Mac issues that your end…
AD User Certificate and Wireless 802.1x EAP-TLS on Mac OS X
You’ve been tasked with ensuring the Mac’s on your domain have the correct certificates and magic tricks to get 802.1x to work, and let’s face it no matter how much as an…
Display Resolution Extension Attribute
Here’s a quick code snippet for an extension attribute to show the display resolution of the Mac’s in your estate. #!/bin/bash screens=$(system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType -xml | grep -A2 "</data>" | awk -F'>|<' '/_name/{getline;…
Automated Email from Google Form Submissions
If you’ve ever created a Google Form to capture the information you need, great! However you’ll soon get to a point where you need to keep checking your form responses to see…
Creating a Institutional FileVault Recovery Key on Mac OS X
At some point as an administrator you’ll be faced with the scenario whereby you’ll need to gain institutional access to a Mac, you’ll need to create what’s known as a Institutional Recovery…
Changing the Login Screen Wallpaper on Mac OS X
You may be thinking, “Why on earth would I change the login screen wallpaper?” Well this one is purely down to personal preference as an admin and give’s you that “Oh lala”…
Fixing Permalinks on WordPress to use /%postname%/
By default the standard Permalink structure on WordPress is “Plain” giving you the rather ugly /?p=123 link. If you’ve found that you want to change your permalink structure to post name but…
UPDATE #2 – Migrating from Centrify to JAMF Casper Suite
I’m currently in the phase of a migration from Centrify to Casper, and to be honest there’s not an elegant way to completely remove one and move to the other, so myself…