Sterling Anderson

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Enabling remote access on macOS endpoints via script

I wrote a couple posts several years ago with information on using Workspace One to enable Remote Desktop and SSH access on macOS endpoints. That information may still work, but I've grown increasingly frustrated with Workspace One and how it runs scripts. Particularly the requirement that a user

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Using Apple Shortcuts to access the Workspace One API

The Apple Shortcuts application can be utilized to make API calls against your Workspace One MDM.

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Scotland Day 10 - Inverness to Edinburgh

Today was another travel day. It’s back to Edinburgh so I can catch my flight home tomorrow. The train was short a car and really crowded, but it wasn’t bad at all. Hell of a lot better than the Van Galder bus! Tonight I’m staying in The

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Scotland Day 9 - Isle of Skye

On my final full day of siteseeing I took a trip to the Isle of Skye on a cold and rainy day. Even with cloud cover all day it was stunning. Before heading for Skye we stopped at Urquhart Castle, and Eilean Donan Castle. And of course, more Hairy Cows!

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Scotland Day 8 - Inverness and Culloden

I’m really liking the weather in the highlands. Sun comes out occasionally, pretty cool temps for the middle of July. I wore pants and a sweatshirt all day and was actually chilly at one point. Today I took a little tour of inverness. Like every town in Scotland it’

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Scotland Day 7 - Edinburgh to Inverness

Today was a travel day. I left Edinburgh and travelled to Inverness via rail. As a Wisconite who lived through Scott Walker’s teure as governor, riding the train brings about a wistful remembrance about what could have been. Regardless, the train is a great way to travel. I had

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Scotland Day 6 - The Highlands, Glencoe, and Loch Ness

After spending the previous day walking all around Edinburgh I was looking forward to a small group tour of the Highlands including Glencoe and Loch Ness. It was a long day, filled with beautiful scenery. The driver, Mac, was friendly, played excellent music, and had great stories in between stops.

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Scotland Day 5 - Edinburgh (day 2)

My Apple Watch tells today me I broke pretty much every movement record I had previously set. I’m not going to argue because it feels like it. I woke up this morning, grabbed breakfast, then headed out to wander Edinburgh until a tour I had scheduled started after lunch.

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Scotland Day 4 - Edinburgh (day 1)

Today I left the Breis, who have been incredible hosts on the first leg of my trip. We drove up to Edinburgh this morning and spent the day walking around in the hottest weather Scotland has ever seen. That’s just a normal Wisconsin summer day except since they don’

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Scotland Day 3 - Southerness

There is a heat wave hitting europe right now so today was a good day to check out the ocean and hopefully catch a decent breeze. We drove down to the small tourist village of Southerness. It was a pretty relaxing day. We ate some lunch at the Paul Jones,

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Scotland Day 2 - Glasgow

After my long trip I slept around 12 twelve hours Saturday night. I woke up Sunday morning and enjoyed some coffee and toast before we headed to Glasgow for the day. Andy and I are both fans of a Scottish sitcom called Still Game so we made sure to visit

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Scotland Day 1

I began my trip to Scotland on Friday morning, waking up to catch the 5:30am bus to Chicago O’Hare Airport. I arrived at the airport with plenty of time to check in and get through security, and was looking forward to a somewhat short, two hour wait before

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Bash script for Rsync backups

I’ve got a very basic bash script I use for user backups to external drives. I place the script on an empty external drive and give that to my users. They are instructed to plug the drive in and double click the backup file. The script asks them to

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Enabling Apple Remote Desktop via Workspace ONE

⚠️Screenshots were lost in a web host move. I also don't use this method any longer. See here for what I think is a better solution. This post is very similar to my last, enabling SSH via Workspace ONE. The process is identical, just the scripts have changed.

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Enable SSH on macOS via Workspace ONE

⚠️Screenshots were lost in a web host move. I also don't use this method any longer. See here for what I think is a better solution. SSH can be enabled through Workspace ONE using Provisioning. I’ve adapted the information on setting up SSH via Munki found here.

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New Mac Setup Scripts

I usually reformat my laptop a couple times a year. It’s completely unnecessary but I just get the itch to clear out and start over. To make that a little less annoying I’ve cobbled together several scripts that do much of the work for me. My laptop is

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Monitoring Wordpress with Nagios/Icinga

I have many WordPress installs on servers I maintain and the hardest part is making sure all the plugins, themes, and WordPress itself remain up to date. I monitor my infrastructure with Icinga2 so I thought I’d try creating a plugin that can let me know when there are

Young Women vs Hillary Clinton

From the New York Times: Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright Rebuke Young Women Backing Bernie Sanders I think this is one of the biggest problems I have with Clinton. Not that she is a woman, as an undecided progressive that is something that I count in her favor. The argument

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Creating DHCP Static Maps for OS X Server in the Terminal

I was in the process of moving DNS and DHCP on my network at work to new Mac Mini servers. This is all much easier using a Linux server, but I had several Mac only applications I was planning on running on the servers as well, so I stuck with

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Japanese Maple

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Anti Right to Work Protest - 2015/02/15

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Berries

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Fishing

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Elevator

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Sweet Autumn Clematis