Softly encouraging your users to print in black and white

Let's say you want to encourage your users to print in black and white, to save costs, but not annoy them too much. Assuming you are running Jamf or any other MDM solution capable of running a script once a week, and if you can create two separate print queues, one for color and another … Continue reading Softly encouraging your users to print in black and white →

macOS Mojave VMWare images for DEP testing

 Apple's Device Enrollment Program (DEP) combined with a MDM solution (such as Jamf) makes it possible for organizations to enroll new macs right out of the box and have their computers automatically set up according to the organization's requirements. Getting this right, however, will require testing. A lot of testing. One way to speed up … Continue reading macOS Mojave VMWare images for DEP testing →

Make an AutoDMG image always run the language chooser

When creating a macOS image using AutoDMG, the resulting image might not use the language you want. To force an AutoDMG image to run the language chooser before anything else, you can add the file /private/var/db/.RunLanguageChooserToo to the image. Create the file: bash-3.2$ touch /private/var/db/.RunLanguageChooserToo Use Packages or your preferred package creation tool to create … Continue reading Make an AutoDMG image always run the language chooser →