Simplifying User Interaction

Presentation from JNUC 2018, the world's largest rally of Apple IT administrators.

Session:
Simplifying User Interaction

Presented by:
David Ramirez

View all session slides, recordings and more at https://www.jamf.com/events/jamf-nation-user-conference/2018/.

Transcript

2. © JAMF Software, LLC David Ramirez Senior Service Manager
3. © JAMF Software, LLC Simplifying User Interaction Presentation agenda: What is the tool? Why does it exist? What can it do? How does it work? Where do I get it? How do I set it up myself?
4. © JAMF Software, LLC A Beginner’s Tale - 2015 • Mac Desktop Support • Only wrote small scripts in AppleScript • Volunteered to co- create the UEX toolkit • Strong Google-fu
5. © JAMF Software, LLC Jamf-Interaction-Toolkit Standardized UEX Toolkit to display dialog and support postponing running policies.
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7. © JAMF Software, LLC Why does it exist? • Custom branding • Only when needed • Built in delay function • Works well with Jamf • Easy to comprehend, use and repeat
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9. © JAMF Software, LLC What can it do? • QUIT • BLOCK • LOGOUT • RESTART Primary functions
10. © JAMF Software, LLC What can it do? • User-chosen delay • Inactivity delay • Presentation delay Built-in delay support
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12. © JAMF Software, LLC Parameters are friends …“not food” Script parameters in a Jamf policy are a simple way to do more using a single script without making a new script each time.
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17. © JAMF Software, LLC MAIN POLICY How it works
18. © JAMF Software, LLC DEPLOYMENT SELF SERVICE MAIN POLICY CACHE PACKAGE How to set it up yourself
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21. © JAMF Software, LLC How the deferral works Extension attributes looks in the deferral folder and returns active if there are plists in there. Smart group collects all the active ones. On every check-in, computers in the group run a policy to check if enough time has passed then trigger the UEX policy.
22. © JAMF Software, LLC jamfHelper Pretty UI, simple buttons, dialogs and countdowns /Library/Application Support/ JAMF/bin/jamfHelper.app/ Contents/MacOS/jamfHelper - help
23. © JAMF Software, LLC cocoaDialog - markcarver - mstratman Create macOS dialogs from the command line easily! https:// cocoadialog.com
24. © JAMF Software, LLC Please Wait - macbrained Clean loading bar that can dynamically change https://github.com/ macbrained/User- Interfaces
25. © JAMF Software, LLC Helper Agent Policies • PLEASEWAITUPDATER • UEXDEFERRALSERVICE • UEXBLOCKAGENT • UEXLOGOUTAGENT • UEXRESTARTAGENT • UEX_INVENTORY_UPDATE_AGENT
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28. © JAMF Software, LLC Where do I get it? https://github.com/ cubandave/Jamf- Interaction-Toolkit #uex-tool-for-jamf on Slack
29. © JAMF Software, LLC How do I set it up myself? • 1 main script • 6 helper scripts + 1 package with tools • 1 extension attribute • Run Setup tool Uploading Components
30. © JAMF Software, LLC Updating Company Name 00-UEX-Jamf- Interaction-no-grep 00-uexblockagent-jss 00-uexlogoutagent-jss 00-uexrestartagent-jss
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32. © JAMF Software, LLC Custom icons with files Add to the Payload folder Set the owner:group to 'root:wheel' chown root:wheel filename Set the mode to 755 chmod 755 filename
33. © JAMF Software, LLC Building UEX Resources PKG • Run the build pkg script • Upload to the Jamf Pro Server • Don’t forget to add the path to the icons into the script
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35. © JAMF Software, LLC The world is your burrito!
36. © JAMF Software, LLC Questions?
37. © JAMF Software, LL THANK YOU!