With OSX Majove, Apple gutted a lot of their App Store (I'm sure that the devs are working on getting back into the App Store, but until then we have to deal with this) so apps that were once able to be downloaded from the App Store, are just no longer there.

Downloading an app directly from a developers website (or brew) results in a notification like below. This is a sample image I took from the internet.

Anyways, to get around this annoying and constant notification each time you launch, Firefox, Google Chrome or literally anything else not from Apple's App Store you can run this, as the user account that the software was installed under (post install) or as root using ARD.

xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app /Applications/Firefox.app 

Just add the app path to the end of the command, and the next time your user goes to run the application they shouldn't receive the notification asking:

DO YOU REALLY TRUST THIS APP?! OH THE HUMANITY APPLE DIDN'T DOWNLOAD THIS FROM OUR CRAPSTORE

A reboot may be required.

Diana just did her first roll to her stomach all on her own!!!

@scottalanmiller nope, I turn conversation view off and sort by date received for every user.

Dumbest design for an email system ever.

This is pretty cool powershell script (github link not direct) to create a fancy html report of your AD environment.

@scottalanmiller said in Revisiting ZFS and FreeNAS in 2019:

There is, in fact, not a single factual thing in this description, not even buried in the subtext.

If you look really really closely at the subtext there is a buried in there. lol

This assumes you have an up-to-date Fedora Server 30 installation and that you are elevated to root.

Install salt

dnf install salt-master

Open the firewall

 firewall-cmd --add-port=4505-4506/tcp --permanent
 firewall-cmd --reload

Enable and start the service

systemctl enable --now salt-master.service 

That gets you a working Salt Master, next on to setting up salt minions, in particular OSX minions.

Edited for grumpy-pants @JaredBusch

@IRJ said in I guess Skyetel doesn't want business:

The vultures have picked this one clean a long time ago.

I still see that horse moving a bit, can I hit it some more?

Doing speed test on my residential wifi.

@David_CSG said in Opinions: Ansible vs. SaltStack:

My need is for one mgmt tool that is: Viable for Windows and Mac OS endpoint management, and for simple basic (check for and) application of system updates, both fit the bill.

This is exactly why I am heavily testing out Ansible with @stacksofplates and @IRJ slapping me in the back of my head continuously.

@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Morning everyone. Working on my expresso right now. Funny story this morning at my coffee shop by Baylor. I joked with the girl taking my order, saying that I live each day 4 shots at a time. She laughed then came around the counter to hug me. Yes I've known her a while but no idea why she did that. I'm still clueless.

Maybe she refused to get her kid vaccinated and needed someone to hug now that Measles is back baby!

That is sarcasm. . . but seriously people, get your kid vaccinated!

So this might seem simple, but when you have a few hundred people doing this by hand would be a huge pain in the rear.

Fortunately Apple being Unix has a tool for this, and it works, just not the way you'd might expect.

Let's say you have 80 out of 200 people who connect to some innocuous wireless network because they weren't paying attention at orientation, and the apple computer they have keeps connecting them to said network every time their computer wakes up.

It's simple to fix and I'm going to be making some assumptions

1. You know what wireless networks your users should be connected with
2. You know what wireless networks in your office they should not connect with (at least automatically).
3. You have remote access with something like Apple Remote Desktop - flaky but it works.
4. I'm also making the assumption of what network device is the wireless NIC, in this case en0

Run networksetup -removepreferredwirelessnetwork en0 'Network Name'

That's it; if the users workstation was defaulting to connecting to a network it shouldn't be, that removes the preference and in essence elevates the other networks that are in the same facility/building. (Your primary network).

This doesn't delete the credentials for those networks, so the user could just easily click on the wifi symbol and connect to them again, but at least this way it won't default to said network.

Which the network preference appears to be based on when you last chose to connect to a network, elevating it above other networks that you as the administrator need your users on.

Also:

@Pete-S said in Windows Server licensing for HA?:

If you have two servers and run HA, does that mean that you have to license Windows Server standard for the maximum number of VMs running when you have a failure?

So for example,
Server A: 16 cores, runs 6 VMs normally
Server B: 16 cores, runs 6 VMs normally

So each server has to be licensed for all 12 VMs running on 16 cores - so 6 x Windows Server Standard licenses for each server, total of 12 licenses?

But if you didn't run HA, you would only license each server for 6 VMs, with 3 x Windows Server Standard, a total of 6 licenses?

Is this correct?

Correct, you have to license the total that any host would ever be expected to run.

@scottalanmiller

If you ever have to do this in your career you may find out it's a bit of a pain in the rear. Apple really wants everyone current but in practical terms, running an OS like Catalina may not work for your business, not until Apple fixes the bugs.

So what are you to do, you can't download the ISO's any more (normally) and if you do have a bootable USB with the OS you want on it, it says the file is corrupted and can't be used.

While don't believe that.

Turn off your WiFi and make sure that you aren't connected to the internet.

1. Plug in your bootable USB
2. Reboot the laptop, while holding Option
3. Select the USB boot disk and get into the install environment
4. Click on Utilities and open Terminal
5. Enter something along these lines date -u 1204194418 (see below for details)
6. Exit Terminal
7. Select the "Upgrade Mac OS" option which should have the Mojave, Catalina or whatever OS you are wanting to install as the thumbnail

What were doing is making the system think it's a year or more out from what it actually is, as the ISO's simply have a lifespan that Apple uses to force you onto the latest and greatest.

Running date -u 1204194418 which is explained like this date -u {month}{day}{hour}{minute}{year} so the example there changes the time to Dec 4, 19:44, 2018. Exit the terminal and get back to the boot selection, tap "Upgrade OSX" now you're able to install that depreciated version of OSX on your laptop and keep your fleet congruent.

*Edited for process clarity

XCP-ng with XO is another option that works well and is under rather consistent development.

XO sets up a web server we're you'd get gui access, back ups, health stats all from a single pain of glass.

iirc WinZip used to have notifications if you used the free version that said something to the affect of "WinZip is not free software, please consider buying it"

Does anyone else remember that?

I do, at least because I would remove WinZip and install 7Zip