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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.…

Read the PostDisabling Slack updates in v4.0+!

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Posted in: MacAdmin

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…

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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…

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Posted in: autopkg

*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).  …

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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…

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Posted in: cooking

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! Our first…

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