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Getting the macOS version number from the installer app
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...
Use emojis with SwiftDialog in a script executed by a Jamf policy
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...
Secure token and bootstrap token in a user-less environment
Context I work as a MacAdmin in an education environment for a public school system in Switzerland. We manage approximately 2500 Macs in a mixed macOS-Linux-Windows environment. The specificity of our Macs is that none of them are attributed to a specific person. We...
Zero-touch, zero-user deployment
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...