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Discoveries and solutions from my work administering Mac computers.

  • Removing a single asset from Content Caching

    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…

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  • Suppressing Keyboard Setup Assistant

    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…

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  • Embrace the macOS Ventura upgrade

    Today is the day! Upgrades to macOS Ventura from macOS Monterey can no longer be blocked in enterprises. With previous macOS upgrades, macOS downloaded a full installer called, for example, Install macOS Monterey.app. Since this was a standalone application, enterprises could use their management or endpoint protection to block this process. Full installers are still…