It’s been a great year for the MacAdmins Podcast. And a special thank you to Tom, Marcus, Emily, James, and the former co-host Pepijn for continuing to allow me to be a part of something special. The last episode of the year is available at podcast.macadmins.org, using the below embedded link, or wherever you get your podcasts!
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Download Older Versions of macOS and Mac OS X
I’ve posted a few old links in my time (as I near 4,000 posts it would be hard not to have some that are broken). But Apple App Store downloads seem to do better with not breaking links. So here are some to old versions of macOS and OS X, in case like me, you always seem to need some old thing for testing: 10.14, Mojave https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/macos-mojave/id1398502828?mt=12 10.13, High Sierra: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/macos-high-sierra/id1246284741?mt=12 10.12, Sierra: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/macos-sierra/id1127487414?mt=12 10.11, El Capitan: https://itunes.apple.com/app/os-x-el-capitan/id1147835434?mt=12 10.10, Yosemite: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id675248567?mt=12 10.9, Mavericks: Beta builds available at https://developer.apple.com/download/more/ 10.8, Mountain Lion: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/D6377Z/A/os-x-mountain-lion 10.7, Lion: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/D6106Z/A/os-x-lion 10.6, Snow Leopard: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard 10.5, Leopard: Beta builds available at https://developer.apple.com/download/more/ 10.4, Tiger: No…
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Slides from MacSysAdmin 2018
As promised, here are my slides from MacSysAdmin 2018. If you were there, hope you enjoyed it. If not, hope it makes sense! MacSysAdmin2018
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Small Applescript to Migrate Mac Calendars
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A Service-By-Service Guide For Moving Away From macOS Server
I’ve been making guides to macOS Server since Server 2: Mountain Lion Server (Server 2) Yosemite Server (Server 3) Mavericks Server (Server 4) OS X Server 5 (for El Capitan) macOS Server 5.2 (for macOS Sierra) macOS Server 5.4 (for High Sierra) And along the way, I’ve also sold plenty of books on Mac Servers and gotten a lot of opportunities I might not have gotten otherwise. So thank you to everyone for joining me on that journey. After teaching so many how to use the services that Apple made available in their server operating system, when they announced they’d no longer be making many of the services my readers…
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MacTech: We’re Building Up To Something, But What?
My session from MacTech 2017.
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looto: Look Up What’s Dependent On A Binary
Ever wonder what binaries have dependencies on a given binary? The otool command allows you to look up what dependencies a binary has, but there’s some extra work to get to reversing it. So looto.sh. https://github.com/krypted/looto https://github.com/krypted/looto.git
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Add Jamf Pro Smart Group to a Google Doc Using Zapier
In this article, we’ll cover how to use Zapier to connect data from your Jamf Account to a Google sheet. Once you build a WebHooks receiver in Zapier, you don’t have to use Google as the third party service that your WebHook triggers. You could use any other service that Zapier integrates as well, including Mailchimp, WordPress, Shopify, Todoist, ZenDesk, SurveyMonkey, Freshdesk, Quickbooks, Basecamp, and about 1,200 other solutions. In other words, you can link a WebHook from Jamf Pro into pretty much any automated service that you can think of! So what’s a WebHook? A WebHook is an HTTP callback, or an HTTP POST that is fired when an event…
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The ins and outs of using tmutil to backup, restore, and review Time Machine backups
Since some of the more interesting features of Time Machine Server are gone, let’s talk about doing even more than what was previously available in that interface by using the command line to access Time Machine. As with any other command, you should probably start by reading the man page. For Time Machine, that would be: man tmutil Sometimes, the incantation of the command you’re looking for might even be available at the bottom of the man page. Feel free to use the space bar a few times to skip to the bottom, or q to quit the man interface. In addition to the man page, there’s a help command,…
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DNS: Install BIND on macOS
The DNS service in macOS Server was simple to setup and manage. It’s a bit more manual in macOS without macOS Server. The underlying service that provides DNS is Bind. Bind will require a compiler to install, so first make sure you have the Xcode command line tools installed. To download Bind, go to ISC at https://www.isc.org/downloads/. From there, copy the installer locally and extract the tar file. Once that’s extracted, run the configure from within the extracted directory: ./configure --enable-symtable=none --infodir="/usr/share/info" --sysconfdir="/etc" --localstatedir="/var" --enable-atomic="no" --with-gssapi=yes --with-libxml2=no Next, run make: make Then run make install: make install Now download a LaunchDaemon plist (I just stole this from the org.isc.named.plist on a…