Posts Tagged ‘munki’

Practical Approaches for Identifying and Fixing Issues by Tim Sutton, Concordia University Most of us are in the business of helping people in organizations use computers to get their work done. Computers are nothing without the software they run, and so it follows that many of us are also in the business of managing desktop software at a significant scale. “Managing” may mean simply providing access and documentation for users, but as it often also involves delivery, packaging, configuration and licensing, it’s often best if a systems admin (or team thereof) plans out and implements these details as well. We… read more →

I love that logo! Hi all, for those that came to the seminar for Munki! As promised, please find below the URLs shown as part of the presentation: Adobe Flash Release History Munki Munki Admin Munki Web Admin Munki Report PHP Sal Simian AutoPKG AutoPKGr Amsys Training Amsys Consultancy Amsys Blogs Munki-Dev Mailing List Munki-Discuss Mailing List IRC (##osx-server) Slack (#munki channel) Thanks again for attending!

Join us for a talk on Munki, the open source deployment software for Mac OS X. If you’re researching Mac deployment solutions for your organisation and want to learn more about Munki and the kind of benefits it can deliver, then attend this free event on the 13th August in London. The talk will be hosted by our senior Apple Consultant, Darren Wallace, and Apple Master IT Trainer, Daryl McCartney who have real world experience setting up Munki solutions for Amsys clients. Attend this event to learn: What is Munki and what does it do Use cases Available advanced options… read more →

I’m back with part 2 of my thoughts and experiences on technical Documentation. This time, I’ll be looking the types of documentation, and a few tips I’ve picked up. Types The first point you will likely find is that there are many types of documentation.  Procedural Procedural is probably the first method of documentation most people create and is always the easiest. It can form the basis of more detailed documentation or the first step on automating / scripting a solution. It’s typically formed of pure and simple step by step of tasks done, and commands run, for example: Install… read more →

Hi all. Welcome to the fourth part in my Munki 2 blogs: The on-going guide to get Munki newbies up and running with a basic setup to cut your teeth on! This blog is designed as an add on to the earlier articles enabling you to take your plain default Munki 1 content and snazz it up to the Munki 2 standard! My Demo Setup Just for clarification, my demo setup for these instructions and screenshots is as follows: Server and Client OS: OS X Yosemite 10.10.1 Server app: 4.0.3 Munki Tools: 2.2 Setting the scene… So you’ve carried out… read more →

Hi all. Welcome to the third part in my Munki 2 blogs: The on-going guide to get Munki newbies up and running with a basic setup to cut your teeth on! This blog is designed as an ‘updater’ blog to my previous two Munki blogs: “Munki Configuration Part 4: MunkiAdmin.app and “Munki Configuration Part 5: The client Mac”. My Demo Setup Just for clarification, my demo setup for these instructions and screenshots is as follows: Server and Client OS: OS X Yosemite 10.10.1 Server app: 4.0.3 Munki Tools: 2.2 Example Package: Mozilla Firefox v35.0.1 Upgrading the Client Tools Nice and… read more →

Hi all. Well, since we published my intro to Munki 2 blog, Greg has continued his forward march and released two full versions since! This blog will give a rough overview of the shiny new features in these releases! So, Munki 2.1? Munki 2.1 was released on 16th December 2014 with 2 main new features (excluding localisation work): Replacing the use of ‘curl’ for the munki repo communications with Apple’s NSURLConnection. This works around an issue with Mavericks and the use of Client SSL certificates to authenticate against the Munki repo. I saw this issue first hand and the workarounds… read more →

Hi all. Welcome to the second part in my Munki 2 blogs: The on-going guide to get Munki newbies up and running with a basic setup to cut your teeth on! This blog is designed as an ‘updater’ blog to my previous two Munki blogs: “Configuring Munki for a Mac Server” and “Munki Configuration Part 2: Admin Mac”. Also, I realised in my intro blog, I used the term ‘Munki Server’ for the Munki Repo and I got a little stick about it. Rather then argue semantics, please assume that if I use the terms ‘Munki Server’ or ‘Munki Repo’… read more →

Hi Munki / Firefox admin! I’ve been known to use both JAMF’s Casper suite and Munki, situation dependent, but recently all of my Firefox CCK2 posts have been geared for Casper admins. Time to give some love to Munki in this area! This blog assumes you have packaged the autoconfig files that CCK2 outputs and are ready to deploy them. It also assumes you have already got Firefox installed in your Munki Repo, either manually or via AutoPKG. I have written the details using Munki Admin to take advantage of the easier GUI to show what’s happening. If you’d rather… read more →

Whether you have already deployed Macs in your organisation or you are trying to work out how to do it, one of our recommendations is to adopt a solid deployment and patch management approach from the start. This topic breaks into a number of smaller methodologies described in one of our earlier blogs. When you are starting to look at refining your deployment processes, there are a few things to take into account: To get the Macs initially setup and useable you will need the ability to deploy your line of business apps You will need to be able to… read more →