LaunchPad Jamf Admin Podcast

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.

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 encryptionTo 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.

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.

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.
 
 

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.

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.

Jamf Pro API with Token Bearer Authentication

Chad Lawson, Rocketman Tech's DevOps Engineer, goes through why using Token Bearer Authentication with Jamf's API is more secure than the traditional Basic Authentication that we've been using for years, how to actually use this method, and some caveats involved. 
For more information about Rocketman Tech, our Github, or to schedule a meeting, visit our website: https://rkmn.tech/YT
 
For follow up resources to this presentation, visit https://www.rocketman.tech/post/migrating-jamf-classic-api-scripts-to-token-authentication
 
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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.

Updating macOS Monterey with Deferrals

Hugo Immediato, Rocketman Tech's Senior Jamf Engineer, goes over how to update macOS with using the Software Update MDM Command with Deferrals, and what is required to do so. In this presentation we go over:- What a Bootstrap Token is, and how to escrow it to Jamf - How to upgrade your EndPoints to Monterey- How the MDM Software Update Command works
 
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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.

Jamf Pro Server Map

Our very own Chad Lawson, Rocketman Tech's DevOps Engineer, has created a utility that shows a lot of great information on your Jamf Pro server, including every policy that a package, script, and smart group is a part of and, more importantly, packages, scripts and smart groups that are not part of any policy. This is an essential tool for cleaning up your Jamf Pro server.
 
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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.

Monterey Updates

In this LaunchPad session, we go through the latest Monterey updates for Mac System Administrator's that we've researched, including: - Erase all Contents and Settings- Deferrals for Remote MDM Updates- Apple Configurator 2 for iOS- Mac Sharing Mode- Improvements to System Extensions- FileVault Screen Improvements
 
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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.