Mountain Lion and Software Update
Mountain Lion introduces a small, yet significant change in how OS X clients communicate with Apple’s Software Update servers. Mountain Lion clients by default now consult an HTTPS URL to check for...
View ArticleDisabled Java Plugins, XProtect Updater
Today Apple updated the XProtect.meta.plist file, which, among other things, causes XProtect to disable Java Plugins that don’t meet a minimum version. The net effect was to disable the Java 6 plugin...
View ArticleMore thoughts on XProtect Updater
I’ve been thinking more about Apple’s Xprotect Updater mechanism in light of the recent updates that have disabled Java web plugins. See yesterday’s post, for example. In many enterprise environments,...
View ArticleStill more on the XProtect Updater
Mike Boylan writes in a reply to my previous post: …I have to respectfully disagree that disabling the auto-update mechanism for Xprotect should be done in organizations with managed machines. Do you...
View ArticlePreventing users from disabling FileVault 2
I’ve seen a few online questions about how to prevent users from turning off FileVault 2. The first line of defense, of course, is to not give admin rights to those users. As of Mavericks, however,...
View ArticleGatekeeper Configuration Data and XProtectPlistConfigData and Munki and...
If you haven’t read this already, please do: http://macops.ca/os-x-admins-your-clients-are-not-getting-background-security-updates/ I’ll wait. Done? OK. Concerned? No? Then you can skip the rest of...
View ArticleMacSysAdmin 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...
View ArticleMacTech 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:...
View ArticleMacTech Conference 2017 Links
Here are some links from my presentation at MacTech Conference 2017, “Imaging is Dead: Now What?” Der Flounder, “Imaging will be dead soonish”:...
View ArticleBootstrappr
A little while ago, I made a new Mac deployment tool available: https://github.com/munki/bootstrappr Bootstrappr is really nothing more than a Bash script that installs any packages it finds in an...
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