Category: Tips

Which Mac to Buy?- Updated June 2023

If you’re buying a new Mac this year, what specs to recommend? I have updated each of the categories with new recommendations as needed. All prices lifted directly from Apple Australia MacBook Pro 13 inch models (New Model 6 June 2022) Entry- M2, 8 core CPU, 10 core GPU, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD $1999 Nice machine, but I’d still spend

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Unifi Wireguard MDM Deployment on macOS

Wireguard is fabulous due to its speed, but there’s not much data available about how to deploy it using standard macOS tooling like MDM. In this case Mosyle MDM has a custom VPN profile, but it doesn’t support the method we need, so we need to use iMazing Profile Editor. Luckily this tool DOES have a profile that supports Wireguard,

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Zoho Desk and Zitadel SAML

This integration took 6 months of work, so I hope it helps someone else… Updated 25.9.2023 as some of these things have been fixed. I hope my edits make sense! Background- The Zoho Desk Knowledgebase is quite full featured but has some odd quirks, some that make it unusable for us.For example, you can set up users, groups categories etc.

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Security Onion- Automating Mac host install for Fleet

Sadly this one took weeks because it involved Security Onion, Docker, Kolide Launcher, FleetDM and various bits that I obviously made up because I’m insane. If you just want the code, go here for the latest version What’s the problem? When you first install Security Onion, it generates a self-signed SSL certificate for the nginx web server and a self-signed

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LetsEncrypt for Security Onion

When doing a proof of concept for this amazing bundle of open source software, it became apparent that one small Achilles heel was the provisioning of a self-signed certificate as part of the install, which then leads to a number of ‘compromises’ with setup in the future. Just want the code? Go here To be more exact- the installer won’t

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FleetDM automatically set labels and groups with Mosyle MDM

*Please note- FleetDM has a paid option called ‘Teams’ which does a vaguely similar thing. This is not an attempt to get around a paywall, we’re still evaluating FleetDM and so far it’s been pretty awesome. If you actually want the ‘Teams’ functionality, get out your credit card!   FleetDM is pretty amazing but it doesn’t handle ‘groups’ out of

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FleetDM and OSQuery on Ubuntu with Lego and LetsEncrypt

We’ve had some major issues running Munkireport recently, and while switching platforms mid ride is generally a really bad idea, I just wanted *something* to work and I had always wanted to try FleetDM, so… I still love Munkireport and it’s beautiful graphing and helpful community. But my analytics engine uses SQL queries, and so does FleetDM, as it adds

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State of The Mac 2022- Updated June 2022

If you’re buying a new Mac this year, what specs to recommend? I have updated each of the categories with new recommendations as needed. All prices lifted directly from Apple Australia MacBook Pro 13 inch models Models Updated June 2022- now with M2 chip! Entry- M2, 8 core CPU, 10 core GPU, 256GB SSD $1999 Nice machine, but I’d still

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Building a Mac Installer for Gravitl Netclient

To make an installer that will work on a Mac, there’s a LOT of requirements. But to make sure the project succeeds into the future we need to do all of this to make the project useful for ‘normal’ people. This means it has to be easy to install, uninstall, get working and stay working! You will need- 1. a

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Mac Deployment AirPrint EFI E100 Printer with Mosyle

Well, the Foigus Autopkg driver I ‘built‘ in 2019 using this article finally stopped working in macOS Monterey. And I wasn’t sure the same process would work or be very durable this time around… After asking around (and thanks to Foigus for answering my questions) I thought I’d try something new, and it worked, so here is the method… Here’s

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