Tag: managed software center
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Troubleshooting faded-looking icons in Managed Software Center on 10.13 clients
Update: Apparently, a real fix for this is on the way. Acknowledgements: thanks to elios and bochoven on MacAdmins Slack for figuring out what was going on. If the icons in your Munki repo looked fine on your 10.12 and 10.11 clients, and then a few of them suddenly look sort of faded (for example,…
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Not bothering teachers with Managed Software Center notifications during the school day
This is a sequel to Keeping up to date using Munki without bothering users, which discussed a few approaches to not bothering users with Managed Software Center updates. I’d tried controlling it with rescheduling the launch daemon, which works well for desktops, which are plugged in and can be scheduled to be on at specific…
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Installing an optional install when logout/reboot items are pending in Managed Software Center
What’s the issue? If all your updates are up-to-date in Managed Software Center, when you select an optional install to install, it will install in the background and be ready to use almost immediately. If, however, you have some pending updates that require a logout or reboot, your optional install (even an unattended install) won’t…
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Disabling blocking applications for a Munki package
I was having a weird issue with CrashPlan, in which Munki was blocking CrashPlan from uninstalling because CrashPlan.app was supposedly running (the actual app wasn’t running‐just a CrashPlan-initiated launch daemon). Unfortunately, I didn’t actually read the documentation on blocking applications, because there is, in fact, a different between not specifying a blocking application and specifying…