Back in 2017 a nudge from Daz got me started on this whole blogging adventure, and up it went on Wordpress. It’s what I was familiar with at the time and it got me up and running quickly. Now, almost 10 years later, I’ve decided to join the cool kids,...
Following Apple’s release of new versions of these apps, users will be presented with the following dialog upon opening the previous versions: To see this dialog, the following conditions apply: The previous version has updated to its latest release (14.5) The new 15.1 version has not been installed If the...
Today, Apple have released updated versions of their popular productivity apps as part of their Creator Studio subscription offering. These are now unified offerings, with a single app version for all operating systems. This has significant impact for Mac users as well as admins who deploy them from Apple School...
Session videos from this year’s Jamf Nation User Conference are available on YouTube. I was there(!) and had the honour and pleasure of presenting alongside Tristan Valente of Netopie. Our session explored the novel approach of managing your Jamf Pro instance using Infrastructure as Code methodologies. We introduced the concepts...
Hello Terraformers! Apple recently, and quietly bumped their Apple School and Business Manager API to 1.3+. Along came a new endpoint for querying AppleCare coverage details for individual devices. With that, terraform-provider-axm has a shiny new data source; axm_organization_device_applecare_coverage. It gives you a list of every AppleCare agreement (resource) a...
This year’s JNUC saw a lot of excitement around IaC and its place in managing and orchestrating the Jamf Platform. This was my first time attending and presenting at JNUC and I’m still buzzing from the experience… Here are some of the takeaways! The Jamf Platform Terraform Provider With the...
If you’re working with the Apple School and Business Manager APIs, you know how powerful, but also how complex, they can be to get started with. To make life easier, I’ve put together a public Postman collection that gives you a head start. Click here to grab it! You’ll need...
Just a quick one - the latest release of the axm provider can now manage device assignments to MDM Servers (or Services as Apple calls them now)! Add a resource block for axm_device_management_service and off you go. Read the docs for more details and enjoy! Top tip: to get the...
Edit 2025-06-21 - you can now assign and unassign devices to MDM Services with the provider! I did a thing. Say hi to this little pet project of mine. A Terraform provider with some data sources to grab stuff from the shiny new Apple Business/School Manager API! It’s early days...
I’ve been working with the awesome Graham Pugh and digging into the wonderful JamfUploader suite of AutoPkg processors as part of my recent work. If you like working with a Jamf Pro instance using API automations, then this is for you! The result so far are a couple of new...
