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Latest — May 15, 2025

The Cookbook: Baking Up Your Perfect Jamf Pro Test VM

Hello Mac admins bakers! If you saw my recent talk, you joined our bakery-themed tour of modern Mac virtualization and how Tart helps whip up clean, repeatable ephemeral VMs. This follow-up “recipe post” blog serves up steps, tools, and a dash of real-world flavor.

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Making Compliance Work: How Security Benchmarks Affect Real People

Compliance is a big deal and with the release of Jamf Pro 11.16, new tools are available to help make devices compliant. In this post, we’ll explore what it means, how it affects the people using their devices, and how to strike the right balance between security and usability.

Part 1 - Setting up Postman with the Jamf Pro API

Setting up Postman Postman is a widely used software application designed for API testing and development. It offers a user-friendly interface for sending HTTP requests to APIs and receiving their responses. With Postman, macadmins can manage collections of API requests, organise these requests into folders, and automate their testing workflows

CrackBerry, er... BlackBerry

Looking for a movie that hits all the right nostalgic notes? This one's a must-watch!

Security & Enrolment Customisation

Some security updates have been implemented that impact your customized enrolment settings in Jamf Pro, specifically regarding the functionality of some inline images.

My presentation @ the Benelux Apple Admins Meetup

I've explored many different VM tools and have shared some my experiences with them here. I was able to compile all my notes into a presentation, which I delivered in November @ an Apple Admins Meeting hosted by Jamf Amsterdam

macOS onboarding Jamf Pro 11.1

With the release of Jamf Pro 11.1 there is a cool new feature called macOS Onboarding, but wanting to limit to newly enrolled computers requires a bit of a workaround.

From Chaos to Compliance: Tackling Unmanaged Macs at the University of Glasgow

Join me and my buddy Chris McBride from the University of Glasgow as we discuss our journey!

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Local Admin Management (LAPS)

Jamf's introduction of and continued work on randomized local password management (LAPS) provides organizations a secure method for accessing and auditing the use of this account when it's needed.

Enrolling your VM into Jamf Pro

Without the ability to use automated device enrollment with our newly created virtual machines, we must resort to user-initiated enrollment (UIE).