macOSLAPS
Rotates the password of a local administrator account on macOS and escrows it to Active Directory or keeps it for your MDM. LAPS, for Macs.
- Swift
- macOS
- Active Directory
- MDM
Hi, I'm Joshua.
I manage Macs and other devices for a living and write about it here. Some of that work turned into open-source tools you can use.
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What's New in macOSLAPS
Today I presented on What’s new in macOSLAPS at the MacAdmins Campfire Sessions. If you would like to see today’s slides those can be downloaded here New Features New features available in macOSLAPS 2.0.0 are the following: Better Active Directory…
LAPS for macOS
I am excited to announce a new macOS application called LAPS for macOS. This application will allow you to grab LAPS passwords much similar to the LAPS UI for Windows from Active Directory on your macOS device instead of using…
macOSLAPS Update with secureToken
It’s been a while since I talked about this GitHub project. I am excited to announced that the latest version of macOSLAPS now has secureToken support. What this means is that you can have a LAPS FileVault user and the…
New Theme for Blog
Today I decided that I wanted to give my Jekyll blogging site a fresh coat of paint as I’ve been using the same theme for a few years. After some experimentation and relearning some of the basics of Jekyll I…
Munki Styling Part Deux
This month with the recently released macOS Mojave, I noticed the app store had taken on an all new look. With this new look it got me thinking about the look of Managed Software Center. The CSS in my previous…
Self Service for GarageBand Loops
With the move to Volume Purchasing for Apple Applications through MDM, I was left wondering how we could add the GarageBand loops to our systems if users wanted to use GarageBand. Before I would run the wonderful project appleLoops and…
Munki Styling - Adding an Image Slider with Thumbnail Previews
So over the past few days I decided I wanted to spice up the way Managed Software Center looks. Some of the things I wanted to change were the colors of the Install and Remove buttons. It seemed to me…
macOSLAPS - Update
Another long absence from posting but I’m hoping to rectify that situation and start posting some of the new things I’ve been working on. We are here to talk about macOSLAPS, so let’s get to that. Over the last few…
802.1x II - Electric Boogaloo - Copying the System Profile from One Ethernet to Another
So it has been a while since I posted. I have been working very hard along with frogor and mosen to determine why the FirstActiveEthernet option in an 802.1x Ethernet profile will only ever apply to one interface and will…
TeamViewer 12 Deployment
Over the past week our college purchased and began testing TeamViewer version 12. This version was to bring new deployment features and make a simple one click install to deploy host to all machines. Sounds easy right? Well unfortunately there…