This useful feature for Mac Admins is considered a security and liability concern by cyber security insurance companies. How can we ensure that we catch and remediate those devices that are out of compliance? There are a few ways to remotely access and assist your fleet of Macs: There are…
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Automating Managed Printers with lpadmin
Automating managed printers with lpadmin is powerful. But, even in the age of “paperless” companies, Sys Admins still spend more time than they prefer on printers. Almost 25 years later, technology workers can find catharsis from that scene in Office Space where they take the printer “out back”. Combing through…
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Deploying Software when Intel and Apple Silicon Versions are Separate
Not all developers make a universal binary… If you are deploying to 500+ endpoints in a mixed Intel/Apple Silicon envoronment, this creates a bit more work to automate. On the Addigy platform, this is accomplished best by compressing your App file as tar and then uploading them both to be…
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Brew Intel vs Brew ARM (Apple Silicon)
I may be late to this party, but today I learned that brew moved from /usr/local/Homebrew/ to /opt/homebrew/ the documentation was not super clear on the steps to take to install the new version and not lose your existing data. I tried installing it over again and then doing brew…