MacAdmin Tools

Stuffs in my toolbox Packages - WhiteBox - A free package creation tool. The gold standard of making your own custom installer packages Suspicious Package - Another similar application for inspecting the contents of macOS packages Pacifist - Similar app to inspect / create packages Hancock - This tool retrieves certificates saved in your computer’s Keychain and provides a GUI to easily sign your packages. LaunchControl - To inspect launchd items...

December 31, 2019 · Pavan Raju

Force eject external volume

How to fix: The volume can’t be ejected because it’s currently in use At the time of writing this article, I was using : macOS Catalina 10.15.1 Build 19B88 Steps : Launch the Terminal.app from the Utilities folder of your Applications folder Next we need to find the proper name of our disk: ls -ll /Volumes/ Now let’s find out which system process uses our disk. For this we use the lsof tool....

November 22, 2019 · Pavan Raju

Apple push notifications troubleshooting

If your macOS and iOS clients aren’t getting Apple push notifications Learn what to do if your macOS and iOS clients don’t see Apple push notifications when connected to a network : https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT203609{:target="_blank"}

November 19, 2019 · Pavan Raju

Jamf Pro on AWS

At the time of writing this article, I was using : Jamf Pro 10.16 macOS Catalina 10.15.0 Build 19A602 What are we setting up… Jamf on Docker Containers This will run locally on the machine https://bryson3gps.wordpress.com/2019/11/25/so-you-want-to-containerize-jamf-pro/{:target="_blank"} Jamf on AWS Makes use of above docker. Google domain needed to add CNAME. https://bryson3gps.wordpress.com/2019/11/25/so-you-want-to-run-serverless-jamf-pro/{:target="_blank"} 3a. Azure LDAP and Azure SSO https://hcsonline.com/images/PDFs/Jamf_Microsoft_Azure_Integration.pdf{:target="_blank"} https://hcsonline.com/images/Identity_Management_Azure_Jamf.pdf{:target="_blank"} Used some of these mappings : https://travellingtechguy.eu/integrate-azure-ldap-in-jamf-pro/{:target="_blank"} 3b. JumpCloud as LDAP provider and SSO....

October 25, 2019 · Pavan Raju

How to create a blog (Like this one.. Literally!)

Step by step guide to build a Jekyll site At the time of writing this article, I was using : macOS Mojave 10.14.6 Ruby vXXX Reference articles : https://jekyllrb.com/docs/installation/macos/{:target="_blank"} https://medium.com/@hisa_py/jekyll-with-asdf-ruby-fix-ruby-ffi-loaderror-on-macos-high-sierra-c302f0567e9b{:target="_blank"} https://botsplash.com/blog/migrating-from-medium-to-jekyll-and-netlify-cms.html{:target="_blank"} https://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes/docs/configuration/{:target="_blank"} https://dev.to/trentyang/how-to-setup-google-domain-for-github-pages-1p58{:target="_blank"} https://help.github.com/en/articles/troubleshooting-custom-domains{:target="_blank"} https://jekyllrb.com/docs/configuration/options/{:target="_blank"} https://didecentral.com/contributors-guide/site-config/#changing-the-font-size{:target="_blank"} Hotjar website tracking https://mycyberuniverse.com/add-hotjar-tracking-to-jekyll-website.html{:target="_blank"} Jekyll theme https://rubygems.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=jekyll-theme{:target="_blank"} Adding Dark mode (auto) : https://derekkedziora.com/blog/dark-mode-revisited{:target="_blank"} Tip : I also cloned Derek’s repo and played around running locally on my machine https://github.com/derekkedziora/derekkedziora.com{:target="_blank"} https://derekkedziora.com/blog/dark-mode{:target="_blank"} https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/night-mode-plugin/428{:target="_blank"} Adding Search bar :...

August 25, 2019 · Pavan Raju