Day: February 21, 2014
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Scripting Remote Desktop Bookmarks
A few years ago I was searching for a way to easily create bookmarks in Microsoft Remote Desktop 8 on the Mac. Prior to version 8 you could drop an .RDP file on a machine and that was really all you needed to do to give your users the ability to connect to servers. Granted,…
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Custom CrashPlan Install With Casper
I’m a fanboy. There, I said it and I’m proud of it. I’m a fanboy of JAMF Software’s Casper Suite. I’m also a fanboy of Code42 and their CrashPlan software. Put them together and it’s like when the two teens discovered peanut butter and chocolate as an amazing combination. I am all about trying to…
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Upgrading CrashPlan Pro to 5.1.2 on Ubuntu
Since I tend to forget things the day after I do them, I’ve decided I’m going to write this one down. While I can manage my way around a LINUX install, especially Ubuntu flavors of Linux, I’m no system administrator or whiz kid by any stretch of the imagination. I tend to plunk around and…
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Upgrading Adobe Flash Player
Recently on JAMF Nation there was a discussion about the Adobe Flash Player Distribution site going away. This site is where admins can go to get a copy of Flash that can then be legally distributed to their fleet of machines. The discussion started out to be about the change Adobe recently made to the URL…
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DFW Casper User Group Meeting April 1, 2015
Here are the links to resources that were mentioned tonight at the meeting: Rich Trouton’s blog: http://derflounder.wordpress.com Ben Tom’s blog: http://macmule.com Shea Craig’s blog: http://labs.da.org/wordpress/sheagcraig/ Univ Utah rc.netboot fix: http://goo.gl/xrBxa JAMF Support GitHub: https://github.com/JAMFSupport/ Bryson Tyrell: https://bryson3gps.wordpress.com/ Mike Morales GitHub: https://github.com/mm2270 JAMF Nation JNUC 2014 Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlxHm_Px-Ie2e4a8tSFpc7JKdxYPxAS0M My GitHub Repo: https://github.com/stevewood-tx IRC – there is a…
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JAMF Nation User Conference 2014
Every year as October gets closer, I get anxious. I know that at some point, usually toward the end of the month, I will be traveling up to Minneapolis for the JAMF Nation User Conference, JNUC. The conference is located at the Guthrie Theater in downtown, in the Mill district of Minneapolis, right on the…
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What’s Your Extension
To say that I’m a huge fan of JAMF Software‘s Casper Suite is probably putting it lightly. I love it, and one of the features I love is the ability to use Extension Attributes for gather information. In the old days of Casper we had no real way of gathering things like Flash version and…
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Jenkins & AutoPKG – Love At First Sight
In my two previous posts, I talked about deploying AutoPkg and Jenkins. AutoPkg allows us to build packages from common apps, like Adobe Flash or VLC, using recipes. This allows for all of the guess work to be done through automation. Then with Jenkins, we deployed a Continuous Integration server that allows for the scheduling…
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Meet My New Assistant – Jenkins
Continuing with my posts on automation, or at least the automation of package building, I’d like to introduce you to my new assistant, Jenkins. Jenkins is a continuous integration server. Continuous Integration, or CI, is defined by Wikipedia as: Continuous integration (CI) is the practice, in software engineering, of merging all developer working copies with…