You don’t need to use JAMF to find it incredibly useful. We have learned frequently that PPPC is a blessing where we can avoid a ton of historical noise.
When Catalina came out, we had to start worrying about privacy preferences. I don’t often use many JAMF tools truthfully, but their PPPC utility is a HUGE deal. BBEdit is a very compelling product that is very reliable. Most times, I just use it to look at logs, write XML, Json, or scripts and more. It’s an incredibly powerful tool if you buy it. Emacs keybinding support (for basic navigation and commands)Īdditionally, you may just want to leverage BBEdit for editing files, searching, and authoring.Pipe command-line tool diagnostic output into bbresults for a GUI errors/warnings/notes results browser.Use the command line for multi-file searching with bbfind.Invoke Find Differences from the command line with bbdiff.bbedit command-line tool: invoke BBEdit from anywhere in the Unix command line to open files or sftp/ftp URLs.Transparently search, open, and save gzip (.Use BBEdit’s powerful editing to manipulate and execute Unix command lines, and then use the same editing capabilities to manipulate the output Shell Worksheets provide a unique command-line experience, complete with sudo support.Access and manipulate locked and hidden unix files for system administration both locally and on remote volumes, even files that are only writeable by administrative users.Some of the great features for administrators are:īEdit offers the System Administrator and UNIX user powerful tools as well: BBEdit is a rich HTML and text editor that I use to do most of my code, editing, and work. It has a huge track record of screwing things up.
The cardinal rule of MacOS is to NEVER use TextEdit for anything. I know its called BBEdit now, but TextWrangler is an excellent product. but it’s important to call out its role for you as a MacOS administrator. It’s likely you may already use xCode today to sideload iOS apps, capture identifiers, etc. You will go to File > New > File to choose the Shell Script template for building your scripts. xCode is important to MacOS admins because it will be the best place to write your bash scripts, which we will cover in more detail later. Depending on who you are, you may use xCode to write iOS or MacOS apps, capture iOS logs (not anymore but we miss it), and create things. So what exactly is xCode? xCode is the IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for Apple devices. Let’s dig into them and see how they can help you. When I think about the tools that are the the most useful for new MacOS admins, I flock to xCode, TextWrangler, and the JAMF PPPC Utility. We will discuss some helpful tools, writing scripts, an introduction to app configuration, app deployments, kernel extensions, privacy permissions, and some helpful resources to learn more.
#BEST TOOLS FOR MAC ADMINS HOW TO#
Let me help with your transition as you start to learn how to manage and develop your MacOS skills as you migrate off JAMF and toward a single platform for all of your devices. I’ve come to realize that many people are starting to migrate and converge their UEM infrastructure. Frequently, I’ve written articles based on things that I am working on. Over the last few years, I’ve written a number of articles on MacOS, such as my article on perfecting DEP enrollments.
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