Author: Steve

  • JAWA Adventures Part 2

    In my previous post, Intro to JAWA – Your Automation Buddy, I went over what JAWA is, a little bit about why it was created, and some about how to get started with it. In this post we’ll dive into the problem I was recently trying to solve for one of my customers. But first,…

    Continue reading

  • Intro to JAWA – Your Automation Buddy

    Today I will start a new short series of posts around JAWA, the Jamf Automation + WebHook Assistant. This first post will be a little intro, along with setting up our story arc and the workflow idea I needed to solve.  The What & The Why JAWA was born out of a need to provide…

    Continue reading

  • Postman Advanced – Passing Data

    In my previous posts about Postman I showed you how to setup Postman for working with Jamf Pro, how to create and update policies, how to gather our queries into collections, and much more. In this post I’m going to expand a little on our use of the Runner functionality which I covered in Part…

    Continue reading

  • Home Office Setup

    This post will be a bit of a departure from my normal ones. Normally I’m trying to pass on some tech knowledge that I might have, or make you aware of some new feature, but not this time. This time I’m shamelessly plugging some products with Amazon Affiliate links so I can make some dough.…

    Continue reading

  • Using Postman with Jamf Pro Part 5 – More Runners

    Welcome back to my series on using Postman with Jamf Pro. If you haven’t checked out the previous posts, or you’ve never used Postman with the Jamf Pro API, you may want to go read through these: Using Postman for Jamf Pro API Testing – Part 1: The Basics  Using Postman for Jamf Pro API…

    Continue reading

  • Using Postman with Jamf Pro Part 4 – Variables & Runners

    Welcome back to my series on using Postman with Jamf Pro. If you haven’t checked out the previous posts, or you’ve never used Postman with the Jamf Pro API, you may want to go read through these: Using Postman for Jamf Pro API Testing – Part 1: The Basics  Using Postman for Jamf Pro API…

    Continue reading

  • Using Postman with Jamf Pro Part 3: Computer Groups

    Welcome back to my series on using Postman with Jamf Pro. If you haven’t checked out the previous posts, or you’ve never used Postman with the Jamf Pro API, you may want to go read through these: Using Postman for Jamf Pro API Testing – Part 1: The Basics Using Postman for Jamf Pro API…

    Continue reading

  • Back At It

    It’s been a minute, hasn’t it? 2020 started off so well, nice and slow (thanks pandemic), and I thought for sure I’d have time to post something new each month. Then in the blink of an eye, I was overwhelmed with projects at work and the next thing you know it’s 2022. Yikes! 2021 saw…

    Continue reading

  • Using Postman for Jamf Pro API Testing – Part 2: Creating And Updating Policies

    In my previous post I walked through the basic steps necessary to get Postman ready to do API requests to your Jamf Pro server. In this post we’ll get into using Postman and the API to create and update policies, including saving our API requests so we can use them again. Before we get started…

    Continue reading