When deploying Palo Alto User-ID feature, integrating macOS computers can be a challenge. User-ID has a lot of potential ways to catch the match user / IP address, but we are sometimes in the situation with macOS computers where we need Continue reading Palo Alto User-ID with macOS computers
While searching the web, I found a lot of methods to create a new Guest account that will be used by our students. We don’t want to use the standard OS X account because we need a different name and Continue reading Create a custom guest account not named “Guest” on OS X
There are many ways to add icons to dialog in AppleScript, but I never found a way to easily add a “custom” icon. You can use the command “with icon file” in your script : display dialog “My custom icon Continue reading AppleScript : Add a custom icon to “display dialog”
This Active Directory attribute pwdLastSet uses a timestamp that is stored as a large integer that represents the number of 100 nanosecond intervals since 1 January 1601. When we’re familiar with working with Unix epoch time, it is not really handy. Epoch is Continue reading Convert Active Directory pwdLastSet attribute to readable time
When you’re using Bash scripts it’s sometimes necessary to show a window to the user asking for specific information or showing warning through AppleScript. After a long Google search, I finally found how to add Bash variables directly into a Continue reading Add Bash variables to “osascript -e” command
Archiware PresSTORE and Absolute Manage are two great softwares that help us to manage and back up our users. PresSTORE integrates some CLI commands that can be used with Absolute Manage to retrieve some information directly in the asset management Continue reading Show the last PresSTORE Backup2Go’s backup date in Absolute Manage
The script below can be used to show LLDP information on Absolute Manage for Mac OS X clients. To make the script working, it’s necessary first to compile the OpenLLDP tool. This step is documented in another post on this blog. Continue reading Add LLDP information on Absolute Manage on Mac OS X
The script below can be used to show CDP information on Absolute Manage for Mac OS X clients. To make the script working, it’s necessary first to compile the cdpr tool. This step is documented in another post on this blog. You Continue reading Add CDP information on Absolute Manage on Mac OS X
Recently found a solution to add a printer through a shell script or simply by the Terminal if the computer has nothing other than SSH: Command : sudo /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p <Printer name> -L “<Location>” -E -v lpd://<address IP or DNS> Continue reading Configure printers by script on Mac OS X
