Anthony Reimer’s Blog for Mac Admins
This is my blog for Mac Admins, focusing on things that may be of interest to those who run Mac computer Labs like I do.
As of 2020, I have migrated all my presentation resources and blog-like posts that had appeared on the University of Calgary IAML web site to this personal site. The resource page is maclabs.jazzace.ca/resources/ and my blog-like posts have been posted here as if this blog existed when I wrote those posts. My Mac Hardware/Software Obsolescence Chart has also been relocated here (you can always go to obsolescence.jazzace.ca and be redirected to the right page).
For all my other personally-created content, go to my personal web site (Established 1996), also linked at the top of each page.
Posts So Far:
2024
2023
- 📦 My AutoPkg Authoring Enviroment
- 📦 AutoPkg In Depth Workshop
- Automatically Renaming Computers using a Package in Jamf Pro (📦)
- 📦 Feeding Outset 2：Override Boogaloo
2022
- 📦 Feeding Outset with Packages using AutoPkg
- 📦 Deploying Adobe Software with JamfUploader
- 📦 Text Searching in AutoPkg
- You Have Expertise to Share!
- 📦 Demystifying JamfUploader at MacAdmins
- Printing 16-bit Colour in Photoshop
2021
- Updating Big Sur on Shared Macs
- Recognition, Retirement, and Remembrance
- An AirTag Adventure, Part 1—AirTag Across the Atlantic
- 📦 AutoPkg, Variable Persistence, and Empty Strings
2020
- 📦 Integrating AutoPkg into Jamf Pro
- 📦 EveryWorld AutoPkg Workshop
- Uninstalling Adobe Apps Using a Shell Command and Jamf Pro
- 📦 MacAdmins Campfire Sessions Slides and Resources
- 📦 .ds recipes are dead; long live .ds recipes
- The Mac Obsolescence Chart — Now With Specs!
- The Joys of Colour Calibration
- Now with One Stop Shopping
2019
- 📦 AutoPkg Input Variables
- MacTech Presentation Learnings (📦)
- 📦 Core or Custom AutoPkg Processors?
- 📦 Multiple AutoPkg Recipes or Just Override?
- 📦 Office AutoPkg Recipes — Update
- The Mac Admins Podcast
- MDM, MDS, OSS, and DEV at MDC in YYC
- Changing Listed Printers When Deployed by Profile
- Wisdom from Tycho
2018
- Colour—Deep and Wide
- 📦 Generic App-Packaging Recipes for AutoPkg
- 📦 Running an AutoPkg Recipe with the --pkg Option
- The Mac Desktop Dilemma
- 📦 Putting the Pkg in AutoPkg
- 📦 The AutoPkg Series
- 📦 New and Updated AppleSupportArticle Recipes
- 📦 Office AutoPkg Recipes — Which Do What
- 📦 AutoPkgr Repo List Limits
- 📦 UNIX Aliases and AutoPkg
- Mac Admins at Penn State Wrap-Up (📦)
- 📦 Checking Web Pages with AutoPkg
- Imaging is More Dead
- Video of MacAD.UK Presentation Now Online
- MacAD.UK Slides and Updates
2017
- Guest Blog Post at Amsys.uk
- Conference Representation
- “Imaging is Dead…” Presentation
- Firmware Updates Changed in 2015
- More Firmware Fun
- Imaging Is Dead… for Upgrades
- Firmware Follow-up
- macOS and Security Updates
- Adobe CC for Labs
- Sharing What We Presented
- Resources for Blogging with GitHub Pages
- Upgrading a 2012 Mac mini — From RAID to Fusion
- Slides for Blogging with GitHub Pages
- An Excursion Into Blogging
2016
2015
2014
- 📦 Feeding AutoDMG and DeployStudio with AutoPkg
- Mac Admin Fundamentals
- Modular Image Creation presentation