AzureAD Single Single On (SSO) is both an application (Company Portal.app) and a Configuration Profile applied to Jamf enrolled Macs for authentication purposes to DOI Azure Active Directory. Once applied, applications that rely on DOI Active Directory Federated Services should automatically authenticate with AzureAD SSO.
Azure AD SSO …
Apple Kerberos Single Single On (SSO) is a Configuration Profile applied to Jamf enrolled Macs for the purposes of Kerberos Ticket Granting Tokens (TGTs) used to authenticate the user to on-premise Active Directory resources. The user must be on VPN/on the DOI Network to get a Kerberos Ticket. When the user is on the network and a ticket needs to …
User interaction is required to grant privacy permissions to the Jump Client application on macOS. When the application installs, a popup message will display asking the user to allow screen recording. If this is missed, the user will be re-prompted when a jump client session is initiated.
Click the Open System Preferences button.
Subject: [UPDATE 3] October 2022 ePatching for macOS – Begins 10/25/2022
UPDATE 3: Please distribute this information to your macOS Monterey end users.
To complete patching on macOS Monterey, user interaction is required. If no action is taken, updates will be enforced at the installation deadline: Monday, November 14th at 6PM EST.
Users will be notified that updates are available with a popup like this:
The final step in moving the USGS DAR encryption project into a compliance phase is to enable automatic shutdowns of non-compliant systems. Respecting the September Fiscal Year Closeout Activities, a decision was made to move the shutdown activities that were supposed to start on August 29, 2022, to Monday, October 17, 2022 providing additional time for sites to remediate non-compliant …
Subject: September 2022 ePatching for macOS – Begins 9/12/2022
WHEN IT WILL HAPPEN:
Fast Ring Testing Schedule:
Production Patching Schedule:
WHAT WILL HAPPEN: ePatching Update Cycle for MacOS
Updates …
The BUTST-supported method of upgrading macOS Ventura is the Jamf Self-Service Portal Method which does not require administrative privileges.
Pre-requisites before running the upgrade:
Note: The upgrade process will take about 45 minutes to an hour and a half. We …
When trying to perform macOS updates from System Preferences>Software Updates, you see the cog just spin.
Running the following commands in Terminal may help. They do require admin access.
This terminal command will manually add a user to FileVault
sudo fdesetup add -usertoadd <user name>To create a Bigfix Keyfile on Mac, you will need to create a properly named, blank txt file in the BES Agent directory.
su usgs_laps2. cd into BES Agent
cd /Library/Application\ Support/Bigfix/BES\ Agent3. Create a properly named txt file, in accordance with the DOI/USGS BigFix Keyfile guidance: Read More…
