Prefs CLI Tools for Mac Admins
Recently I have been working on some… well… “stuff” that uses custom configuration profiles. Very custom, and since I am testing things, they need to be updated a lot. The issue with defaults When you...
View Articledesktoppr 0.5 — Managed by profile
Earlier this year, I released a beta version of desktoppr 0.5 which added an option to control the tool using a configuration profile. You can read all the details of how I built out this workflow in...
View ArticleBuilding a LaunchD Installer pkg for desktoppr (and other tools)
In my last post introducing desktoppr 0.5, I said that a Mac admin could build a customized pkg with a customized LaunchAgent property list, that would run desktoppr manage at login and every few...
View ArticleSwift Command Line Tools and Argument Parser — Part 1
When building tools in Swift, I usually start with a command line tool. This allows me to ignore the complexity of creating a user interface while figuring out the underlying APIs and data models....
View ArticleInstallomator v10.6
It is that time again, we have released a new version of Installomator! Many thanks to all the maintainers and contributors! It has been quite a while since we published a release and there was quite...
View ArticleInstallomator v10.7
Chipping away at the backlog of PRs and issue, we have released a new version of Installomator today. Main focus was on releasing a whole bunch of new and updated labels. But the maintainer team has...
View ArticleNew tool: utiluti sets default apps
A while back I wrote a post on the Jamf Tech Thoughts blog about managing the default browser on macOS. In that post I introduced a script using JXA to set the default application for a given url...
View ArticleInstallomator v10.8
Further chipping away at the backlog of new and updated with merged 200 PRs merged or closed. The new PR templates and automations are proving to be a big help! Many thanks Bart for working on these...
View ArticleNew tool updated: utiluti v1.1
A few weeks back I introduced a new tool: utiluti, which sets default apps for url schemes and file types. Not standing still, I have updated the tool with new verbs to list url schemes and file types...
View ArticleUpdates: Setup Manager and utiluti
Setup Manager 1.3 We have released Setup Manager 1.3 today. You can see the release notes and download the pkg installer here. Most of the changes to Setup Manager in the update do not change the...
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