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I Taught My House to Dodge Peak Rates: A Home Assistant Peak-Shaving System
It’s been a couple of years since I posted here. Not for lack of material — the opposite. I’ve been heads-down building a Mac management product, doing endpoint and IT automation work, and filling a notebook with things I kept meaning to write up. So I’m starting again, and I’m starting with the one that’s…
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Opening specific panes in system settings using the command line in macOS
I often find myself needing to access specific system settings panes via the command line or a script, but not often enough to remember how to do it. It happens infrequently, yet it’s frustrating every time I have to search for the information again. That’s why I’m writing this article, even though others have already…
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Adobe Enterprise and Okta
Issues Okta Requirement We require Okta auth for all of our applications. This week we have added Adobe Enterprise into the mix and while it fits the Okta requirement, it’s extremely bare bones. The implementation is not IDP-initiated, meaning the user will still have to go to adobe.com and type in their email before the…
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An Admin’s Guide: How to fix “macOS cannot verify that this app is free from malware”
I’ve been building many bash scripts lately that rely on JSON and while there are ways to flip bash to applescript to read said JSON, that just hasn’t worked for me. In stepped JQ which requires me to push this out to my fleet. The only issue I’ve had is that it’s not signed by…
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Update
What have I been up to? In the past couple of months, I’ve worked with my team to implement Duo Device Trust, Okta Identity Governance, and update our application patching to notify users through Slack. I’m sure there’s more I’m forgetting and I hope to document many of these wins in the near future. I’ve…
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Custom Jamf Pro Connector in Okta Workflows
I’ve been spending much of my workday in Okta workflows building out different tools and have found the built-in Jamf Pro connector lacking. So I’ve used Connector builder to create my own. A big win is being able to use both the Classic and new Jamf Pro APIs. The workflows we have built that work…
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Duo Universal Prompt
This last week has been fun… We are implementing Duo Beyond using Duo Universal Prompt. Multi-Factor Authentication but Duo’s next-gen version. With Universal Prompt we are hoping to cut down on MFA Fatigue by directing users with Macbooks to use Touch ID, users with smartphones to use Duo Mobile and Verified Push, or users who…
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Okta Workflows / Duo Auth
We are in the midst of implementing Duo within our org and want to use it just about everywhere, including Okta Workflows. We have been building Slack slash commands that do some serious changes (more posts on those later) and we thought prompting the user running the command with Duo would be another layer of…