by Fabien | Aug 31, 2026 | Enrollment, Secure token, Updates
The importance of the secure token I’ve already talked about my struggles and findings around the Secure Token in a previous article. The gist of it is that I manage an environment where all computers are shared, and none of the users have a local account (we...
by Fabien | Nov 25, 2025 | Uncategorized, User interface
Today is a big day. I gathered up the courage necessary to publish my first code on GitHub for everybody to see (and criticize). The origin story As a MacAdmin, I’ve had the need to set the favorite items presented in the Finder sidebar. In the past, I could do...
by Fabien | Mar 17, 2025 | Updates
Why it might be important In my organization (Geneva public school system), we manage our system updates by downloading the full installer and then installing the update with the startosinstall command. The reason we are doing it like this is because these are lab...
by Fabien | Nov 18, 2024 | User interface
Introduction SwiftDialog is a great tool to display a user interface for scripts. It can be used to request information from the user, or simply to display information in a nice and clean way. One of the features of SwiftDialog is to display images in various places...
by Fabien | Apr 23, 2023 | Secure token
Update August 31st 2026 – This “trick” does not work since macOS Tahoe, a new post describes the new method I’m using Context I work as a MacAdmin in an education environment for a public school system in Switzerland. We manage approximately...
by Fabien | Apr 12, 2022 | Enrollment
Summary In this short text, I will explain how we deploy our macOS configuration with JAMF and DEPNotify on the login window, without the need of having a user log in. The context I am a physics and math teacher and a Mac admin in a public school system in...
