If you want to see what organization Office 365 is activated with, you can take a peek at the user preferences: defaults read com.microsoft.office This is a bit tricky, though. At first glance, it might seem defaults read com.microsoft.office OfficeActivationEmailAddress is the best indicator of what account is signed in, but that value will remain… Continue reading Finding out which organization Office 365 is activated with
Basic default behavior in Nudge (Swift, not Python)
A couple of years ago, I published an Introduction to Nudge. At the time, Nudge was written in Python and worked in Catalina. The new version of Nudge is written in Swift and works for Big Sur and Monterey (and presumably Alcatraz and beyond). This new version of Nudge has a whole bunch of configurable… Continue reading Basic default behavior in Nudge (Swift, not Python)
How to install macOS 12 (Monterey) as a VMware Fusion guest VM
Notes These are just more fleshed out steps from a brief overview in the VMware Fusion communities online forums. Hopefully, these instructions will be obsolete soon in a future update of VMware Fusion (where you can just select macOS 12, drag the installer to the install wizard, and have VMware Fusion do everything for you).… Continue reading How to install macOS 12 (Monterey) as a VMware Fusion guest VM
Script to find application architectures on your Mac
Apple has once again switched architectures. It used to be a switch from PowerPC to Intel. Now it is a switch from Intel to Apple Silicon. Vendors are in the process of switching from releasing Intel only or separate Intel and Silicon binaries to releasing universal binaries (that will work on both Intel and Silicon),… Continue reading Script to find application architectures on your Mac
Signs you may have conflicting MDM profiles in macOS
Jamf doesn’t currently let you easily separate out individual parts of a profile, so if you deploy a Restrictions profile, you have to enforce all the parts of the Restrictions profile. Sure, you can download the profile, un-sign it, modify it, re-sign it, and then re-upload it, but that’s not very easy to then modify… Continue reading Signs you may have conflicting MDM profiles in macOS
Installing macOS in VMware Fusion
Introduction It’s not that difficult to install a macOS guest VM on a macOS host using VMware Fusion and personal (non-enterprise) licenses for VMware Fusion are now cost-free. But here are the actual steps. Get the installer Method 1 There’s a way built into macOS to get the installer using the softwareupdate –fetch-full-installer command in… Continue reading Installing macOS in VMware Fusion
Popping a Munki optional install to the top of Managed Software Center
Most of the time, having optional installs in Managed Software Center be in alphabetical order is fine. Users can scroll through the list or search for optional installs by name. But if you have a long list of optional installs, you may want one or two items that are at the end of the alphabet… Continue reading Popping a Munki optional install to the top of Managed Software Center
Doing quick tests of customized (Swift) Nudge text
Introduction The new Swift version of Nudge is available now, and it provides a lot more customization options (and the ability to use either a .json or a configuration profile to set preferences), including lots of customized text. You can, of course, test out your customized test by deploying Nudge to a test machine that’s… Continue reading Doing quick tests of customized (Swift) Nudge text
Enrolling with management server failed with 500 status
This isn’t a comprehensive “if you get this, these are all the solutions” post. This is more of a “this worked for me, and it may work for you, too” post. If you’re using sudo profiles renew -type enrollment to enroll a Mac in your MDM via DEP (or “automated device enrollment”), you may get… Continue reading Enrolling with management server failed with 500 status
Using diskutil to find secure token users on a Mac
Typically, to find out of if a user account on a Mac has a secure token, you run a command like sysadminctl -secureTokenStatus username Where username is the username of the account you’re checking for a secure token. Several folks on the MacAdmins Slack have mentioned that the most accurate way to get the secure… Continue reading Using diskutil to find secure token users on a Mac