Almost four years ago, Slack answered many admins prayers and finally released a method to disable the annoying auto-update tool. This week, in Slack’s “Admin Update” newsletter, they announced the original feature will be deprecated…
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Update March 13th, 2024 – Slack has announced that this method will be deprecated on September 1st, 2024. Please see my updated post for instructions and an example configuration profile on disabling the auto-update feature.…
Update: I’ve had a few users still get these popups, even with the bundle removed. I’ve updated my internal copy of this to work with some noticeboard bits that Rich Trouton and Jason B (@zoocoup)…
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We’re in the process of switching from a rather feature-barren free Meraki Systems Manager over to the much superior SimpleMDM. This started as a test for a full DEP/MDM workflow, and ended up with us…
UPDATE 7/15/2019 – Please see my updated post on this. Slack has provided a plist-based method, finally! If you deploy Slack with anything that isn’t VPP, you’ve probably run across the annoying instance where Slack…
We use Uptime Robot to warn us if sites are down or unreachable from the public side to help us diagnose edge network issues. While we all love Slack, we also like being able to turn…
*SHAMELESS PLUG* I’ll be talking about this piece of our infrastructure and more at my PSU Mac Admins conference talk on July 14th (video will be posted here too as soon as it is available). …
Gitlab CE 9.1 introduced an experimental feature that I have been waiting for eagerly for a very long time – the ability to schedule triggers to start CI runs (“pipelines” in their nomenclature). This is…
I ran into a use case where some files on our servers are growing rapidly (more on that in the future). Instead of just throwing cloud block storage at the problem, I decided to put…
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Many of my friends and family are constantly asking for recipes when I post my food on Facebook or Instagram. So, here we have a collection for this year’s Thanksgiving with my girlfriend! https://www.instagram.com/p/BNNbNuCj8sE/?taken-by=refreshingapathy For…