LaunchPad Jamf Admin Podcast

By Rocketman TechTechnology

LaunchPad Jamf Admin Podcast episodes

May 05, 2023 How to soar with S.U.P.E.R.M.A.N.
How to get started deploying macOS updates with S.U.P.E.R.M.A.N. and a Q&A with the creator Kevin White.
In this session, we will be showing a base setup for S.U.P.E.R.M.A.N. and then taking a technical deep dive into how it works. We will then be doing an interview with the creator, Kevin White, where we ask some common questions on the way it was set up, the way it can be configured, and any security concerns with setting things up one way over another. We’re also going to discuss whether Rocketman’s setup is the best way, or if there’s a better way Kevin recommends, and open up Q&A for the audience.

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Launchpad Podcast is hosted by Rocketman Tech where we discuss recent news, updates and happenings in the Jamf and Apple world. Always relevant and always casual, we'll have a Keynote speaker, discuss current LaunchPad events, and invite group discussion, questions and topic requests throughout the ~1 hour meeting.
1 hr 10 min
April 07, 2023 Providing Zero Touch Guided Setup for Camera, Microphone, and Screen Sharing
TCC is the macOS system for providing applications access to system services while ensuring transparency, consent, and control. Apple has made sure that admins or attackers cannot automatically provide applications access to user files, external drives, or hardware like camera and microphone, for obvious security reasons.
Yet with zero touch provisioning our goal is to provide our teams with the ability to do their jobs right out of the box. So how do we guide people through the process of enabling these services for applications like Zoom or Teams that they need in a remote world? In this presentation we will show our workflow for walking people through these processes during our automated onboarding process and a shell script function for verifying that they have what they need.
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Launchpad Podcast is hosted by Rocketman Tech where we discuss recent news, updates and happenings in the Jamf and Apple world. Always relevant and always casual, we'll have a Keynote speaker, discuss current LaunchPad events, and invite group discussion, questions and topic requests throughout the ~1 hour meeting.

1 hr
March 03, 2023 Patch Management with App Installers - What we’ve learned
The Rocketman Tech Team has migrated from using installation scripts and AutPkgr to using Jamf’s built in App Installers to deploy software patches for thousands of Macs. Senior Jamf Engineer at Rocketman, Hugo Immediato, will give a full assessment of what worked well, what can be improved, and whether it can work for your environment.
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Launchpad Podcast is hosted by Rocketman Tech where we discuss recent news, updates and happenings in the Jamf and Apple world. Always relevant and always casual, we'll have a Keynote speaker, discuss current LaunchPad events, and invite group discussion, questions and topic requests throughout the ~1 hour meeting.
1 hr
February 03, 2023 Why Jamf Admins Should Switch to Zsh
Beginning with Catalina (10.15), Apple changed the default login shell from Bash to Zsh. Many admins, ourselves included, have been slow to move to this new shell. Why should we? It turns out there are few advantages to Zsh over Bash. In this session we’ll show off a few ways we’ve been able to leverage Zsh to write better scripts, and even regain some of what we lost when Python went away.
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Launchpad Podcast is hosted by Rocketman Tech where we discuss recent news, updates and happenings in the Jamf and Apple world. Always relevant and always casual, we'll have a Keynote speaker, discuss current LaunchPad events, and invite group discussion, questions and topic requests throughout the ~1 hour meeting.

57 min
January 06, 2023 Switching from Basic to Token Authentication for Jamf Scripts
At the beginning of 2022, Jamf announced that Basic Authentication would be deprecated by the end of the year. Although they have seemed to push back this date indefinitely, it's still important to update your scripts to Token Bearer Authentication.
In this video I'll provide you with:
1. A shell function you can drop into your existing scripts.
2. The method and command to call the function and fetch your token from the Jamf Pro API.
3. The simple search/replace process to convert your existing Basic calls to Bearer.
Blog post referenced in this video:
https://www.rocketman.tech/post/from-basic-to-bearer-a-map-to-migration-magic

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Launchpad Podcast is hosted by Rocketman Tech where we discuss recent news, updates and happenings in the Jamf and Apple world. Always relevant and always casual, we'll have a Keynote speaker, discuss current LaunchPad events, and invite group discussion, questions and topic requests throughout the ~1 hour meeting.
51 min
November 04, 2022 Byte-Sized Tricks and Treats
Rocketman DevOps Engineer Chad Lawson shares some tricks he has up his sleeve for managing Jamf environments. Chad goes over the following additions to the now open source Jamf Toolkit:

- Detecting when someone has enabled camera or microphone access for an app
- Configuring Policy Scripts with Configuration Profiles
- Storing sensitive information in the Keychain
- Protecting files and other data with encryption
To access the notes and code snippets from this session, visit https://rkmn.tech/ByteSizedMeetup

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Launchpad Podcast is hosted by Rocketman Tech where we discuss recent news, updates and happenings in the Jamf and Apple world. Always relevant and always casual, we'll have a Keynote speaker, discuss current LaunchPad events, and invite group discussion, questions and topic requests throughout the ~1 hour meeting.
1 hr 2 min
August 05, 2022 MDM Migration Workflow
In this video we look behind the curtain at our custom migration workflow for migrating from one MDM (such as JumpCloud, WorkspaceONE, MobileIron) to Jamf Pro!

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Launchpad Podcast is hosted by Rocketman Tech where we discuss recent news, updates and happenings in the Jamf and Apple world. Always relevant and always casual, we'll have a Keynote speaker, discuss current LaunchPad events, and invite group discussion, questions and topic requests throughout the ~1 hour meeting.
58 min
July 08, 2022 Coding Outside The Box
Ever wonder how to securely do API calls through a script on a user’s computer, without compromising the API credentials? Spoiler alert: Using Parameters, Base64, and Encryption is not enough.

Let’s think WAY outside the box. Like, what if our Jamf Policy scripts don’t even make their API calls within the Macs themselves?
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Launchpad Podcast is hosted by Rocketman Tech where we discuss recent news, updates and happenings in the Jamf and Apple world. Always relevant and always casual, we'll have a Keynote speaker, discuss current LaunchPad events, and invite group discussion, questions and topic requests throughout the ~1 hour meeting.

1 hr 9 min
June 10, 2022 WWDC 2022 Updates for Jamf Admins
Another year, another beach, another WWDC! Apple introduces Ventura, iOS 16, and a lot of exciting new features for Mac Admins. Watch as we go through the highlights and caveats of everything that Apple introduced this week.
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Launchpad Podcast is hosted by Rocketman Tech where we discuss recent news, updates and happenings in the Jamf and Apple world. Always relevant and always casual, we'll have a Keynote speaker, discuss current LaunchPad events, and invite group discussion, questions and topic requests throughout the ~1 hour meeting.
1 hr 3 min
April 01, 2022 Jamf Pro App Installers
Join us as William Smith (Talking Moose) discusses Jamf's newest and highly anticipated feature, App Installers. This feature brings true patch management to Jamf Pro that takes care of packaging and deployment of software to user's Macs.
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Launchpad Podcast is hosted by Rocketman Tech where we discuss recent news, updates and happenings in the Jamf and Apple world. Always relevant and always casual, we'll have a Keynote speaker, discuss current LaunchPad events, and invite group discussion, questions and topic requests throughout the ~1 hour meeting.
57 min