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Discoveries and solutions from my work administering Mac computers.
This post assumes a familiarity with macOS packaging. Apple’s aerial screen savers are a headlining feature in macOS Sonoma. These screen savers are also integrated with the desktop wallpaper, slowly pausing behind windows after the Mac is awoken or unlocked from screen saver. A screen saver/wallpaper combination featuring the Sonoma region of California is the…
In my last post I considered the changes in Cisco Secure Client 5. In its default configuration, AnyConnect/Secure Client is a user-facing application. As a VPN client, it’s an important part of our remote and hybrid work environments. While the process of logging onto VPN with Secure Client is unchanged from AnyConnect, the name and…
Cisco has announced the end-of-life for Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client 4 as March 31, 2024. Over the next year, customers should move to its replacement: Cisco Secure Client 5. While Cisco Secure Client 5 will upgrade AnyConnect 4.x in-place, this action is more of a migration than an in-place upgrade because so many of…
Howard Oakley posted this weekend about problems installing XProtect updates when a Content Caching server is available. His post prompted me to dig into a similar situation I had last week: I couldn’t install Command Line Tools for Xcode while my Content Caching service was online. Fortunately, /var/log/install.log had a lot of verbose logging about…
Researching Keyboard Setup Assistant started as an exercise in suppressing it during a demonstration video of our Mac provisioning process. My findings quickly became part of that very provisioning process. Background macOS presents Keyboard Setup Assistant when it encounters an unknown 3rd party keyboard. The assistant guides the user to press a couple of keys…
