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Updating Safari on macOS with Jamf Pro: Three Practical Strategies

Keeping Safari updated is one of the simplest ways to harden a macOS fleet. Apple ships security fixes for Safari frequently, and those patches often land before a full macOS point release. If Safari is lagging behind, your users are browsing the web with a larger attack surface than necessary. In this post I want to walk through three strategies I use to stay ahead of Safari releases with Jamf Pro: Using Jamf Pro Patch Management with standalone Safari installers Using a script that targets a specific Safari version via...

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Hunting Down Jamf Profile Payloads with Python

If you’ve spent enough time living inside Jamf Pro, you eventually run into the same problem: someone set a configuration somewhere, sometime, and nobody remembers where. It might be something obscure – a certificate payload, a conditional SSO predicate, or that one security preference quietly misbehaving on three machines in accounting. And when you have dozens of configuration profiles, each with multiple payloads, nested keys, and XML-wrapped values, finding that setting can feel like forensic archaeology. We’ve all been there, scrolling through the Jamf UI, expanding payloads, repeatedly searching in...

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Keeping Jamf Security Cloud Current for Microsoft 365: Updated Routing Policies

Blog Series Troubleshooting Standard Routing Policies in JAMF Security Cloud Keeping Jamf Security Cloud Current for Microsoft 365: Updated Routing Policies Keeping Jamf Security Cloud Sharp for O365 When I first wrote about troubleshooting Standard Routing Policies in Jamf Security Cloud, the goal was simple: help admins keep Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 traffic flowing smoothly through Jamf Trust + App-Based VPN. Fast-forward, Microsoft has added additional IP ranges and hostnames — and if you’re relying solely on Jamf’s built-in policy, you’re eventually going to feel the pain when Teams,...

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Cleaning House in Jamf Pro: A Friendly Auditor Script for Real-World Hygiene

There’s a tipping point in every Jamf Pro environment where the policy list begins to feel like a junk drawer. Everyone means well. Nobody deletes anything. And then, months later, you’re trying to answer simple questions like: Which policies are actually scoped? What’s no longer referenced? Why are there five versions of the same script? This post covers a small, practical script I wrote to help you see what’s stale, explain why it’s stale, and (optionally) park it safely out of the way—without deleting a thing. If you want to...

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How I Finally Passed the PMP Exam (After 12 Years of Waiting)

🎯 The Long Road to PMP Back in 2013, I registered for a PMI membership with every intention of pursuing my PMP certification. I downloaded the handbook, bookmarked the eligibility requirements, and even told a few friends that I was going to do it “soon.” Then life happened. For more than a decade, my membership sat dormant. Projects came and went. Teams grew, companies evolved, and yet that little unchecked box — “Get PMP Certified” — stayed on my to-do list. Fast forward to 2024, and I finally decided it...

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Turn Jamf Compliance Output into Real Audit Evidence

Most teams use Apple’s macOS Security Compliance Project (mSCP) baselines because they scale and they’re repeatable. Jamf’s tooling makes deployment straightforward and the Extension Attribute (EA) output is a convenient place to capture drift. What you don’t automatically get is the artifact an auditor will accept on a specific date—an actual document you can file that shows which endpoints are failing which items, plus a concise roll-up of failure counts you can act on. Smart Groups answer scope; they don’t produce evidence. This script fills that gap. It reads computer...

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