Yesterday in macadmins slack it came up that you can open terminal in Setup Assistant. This to me is mind blowing, while I wasn’t the original one that discussed it I feel it’s a worthy post. Chris Collins did a much better job of blogging what the use of this is than I would so hat tip to him! You…
EDIT 11-29-2017 08:33: APPLE has released a security update 2017-001. Your best bet is to go install that now. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208315 On twitter today, a tweet came up talking about how you can login to a 10.13 machine, with the account root and no password. You can use this prompt at the Login Window, Screen Saver, System Preferences,a ARD session,…
EDIT: Apple’s readded sierra to MAS https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/macos-sierra/id1127487414?mt=12 One of the changes that came with High Sierra’s release and affected fellow macadmins was the removal of Sierra from the app store. For now, there’s a work around as Apple still has Sierra in the Software Update Catalogue Sign into the Mac App Store with an account that had Sierra Download…
Edit: As per a comment below the location of vfuse has been correted This often comes up in #Macadmins How Do I setup a VM that’ll work with DEP. Todo this in Parallels: Jeremy Baker has a great post on that here Todo this in VMware: We’ll need a few things: VMware Fusion (pro or standard) A Bootable DMG of what…
Apple out of the box supports VLANS, although not very well. You can setup a VLANS by doing the following. Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Network. Click the Action pop-up menu at the bottom of the network connection services list, then choose Manage Virtual Interfaces. Click Add , then choose New VLAN. Give the service a name, then enter a…
While reading on the web about OSX bluetooth I came across an article talking about resetting the bluetooth module. Pressing Shift+Option keys and clicking on the Bluetooth icon on your top bar, now displays hidden debug menus. This menu has a few interesting options, “Reset the bluetooth module”, but the one fascinates me more is referenced below “Factory reset all…
While working on DEP, I noticed something interesting. As of 10.11 you can screenshot Setup Assistant using the standard keys Command + shift 3/4 (add a space for just a window). This raised the question, where do the screenshots go? Supprisingly when you finish the Setup Assistant they end up as expected on the desktop.