For the July Dallas Apple Meetup I did a talk on macOS preferences and profiles. My slide deck, scripts, and reference links to all the tools I used in the talk can be found below:

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10.13.4 UAMDM

10.13.4 is now live! With this release we get the final form of User-Accepted Mobile Device Management (UAMDM) or at least a more polished version.

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macOS Wifi Scanning

Have you ever just wanted to see all the wireless networks around you? Apple provides quite a few tools to help do this out of the box including a really nice command line tool called airport. But what if there was more…

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macOS Beta Images

Apple releases new macOS betas pretty frequently and you test all of those betas, right? Well what if I told you there are some features you can’t test. Not because you don’t want to but because Apple doesn’t give you the tools.

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Github Changelog

I recently ran into a really awesome ruby project for creating Github Changelog files automatically. These files make it very easy for community members to quickly get up to speed and follow the development process of a project.

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Disable FMM in Enterprise

Find My Mac (FMM) is a service from Apple that allows individual iCloud users to locate their devices as long as they are signed in and the device has a valid internet connection. The problem, in enterprise, is we often do not want these services up and running due to security. You can disable the ability to sign into iCloud all together but what if you want to just stop FMM?

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Clayton Burlison

Just another nerd writing and documenting things he finds interesting.

Mac System Engineer

Texas, USA