Modify ZShell Defaults in macOS

Making Terminal More Useful!

 Posted on September 21, 2020  |  3 minutes  |  447 words

I’m finding myself using the Terminal quite a bit more in my job. I spent a few minutes over the past few days looking at different ways to make the default terminal layout in macOS better. While there are many plugins out there for doing this (Oh-My-Zsh), I wanted to do something a little more straightforward. How You Change zsh Default Layouts Armin Briegel has a great article about customizing the zsh prompt in his moving to zsh series. [Read More]
macOS  Apple  Terminal 

macOS Big Sur and Kerberos SSO via Per-App Tunnel

It works!

 Posted on August 14, 2020  |  2 minutes  |  415 words

If you’ve read my blogs about macOS Catalina Kerberos SSO over Per-App Tunnel and the followup, you’ll know that this has been a use-case I’m interested in solving. I put a great deal of effort into filing feedback with Apple and providing steps to replicate the issue. I was quite excited when I saw the per-app Tunnel improvements specifically mentioned in the WWDC videos, and hoped perhaps some changes were made to enable this functionality. [Read More]
macOS  SSO  Tunnel 

Using GitHub Actions to Publish Hugo Site From Private to Public Repo

Keeping ideas and drafts private until they're fully baked

 Posted on August 14, 2020  |  5 minutes  |  998 words

I restarted my blogging journey earlier this year when I started looking into Jekyll Hugo to generate a static website. I had past experience with Blogger and Wordpress, but frankly had periodic problems with both platforms that ended up being a time suck. As it has been, Hugo has been a simplistic publishing method and GitHub a reliable (and FREE) hosting provider. Yet, my desire to keep my drafts private (. [Read More]
GitHub  Actions  Hugo 

Building a Basic Azure HomeLab for Testing Workspace ONE UEM

Quick and Dirty, No-Frills, Azure Lab

 Posted on August 9, 2020  |  11 minutes  |  2254 words

NOTE: This is still under construction but I wanted to share what I had so far… Two things intersected for me this weekend: Issues with my current lab setup, and realization of some unused credits with my MSDN subscription. This led me down the path of building a basic Azure homelab for Workspace ONE UEM testing. My intent of this blog post is to document the process for myself to re-use, but I also invite your comments on how to improve the scenario. [Read More]
Azure  Workspace ONE 

macOS Catalina Kerberos SSO over VPN Followup

Making Some Progress, But Still Awaiting A Fix!

 Posted on March 22, 2020  |  3 minutes  |  443 words

I’ve been going back and forth with Apple about some of the issues I previously found using the macOS Catalina Kerberos SSO over Per-App VPN. As it turns out, they acknowledged some of the issues I was seeing and are supposedly working on a fix. I’ve been watching the past few beta releases for macOS, and I’ve not yet seen anything in the release notes to indicate they’ve implemented any fixes. [Read More]
macOS  SSO  VPN 

My Adapted Digital Bullet Journal via iPad Pro and GoodNotes 5

Putting Apple Pencil to Digital Paper to Stay Organized

 Posted on March 6, 2020  |  9 minutes  |  1777 words

Background Last year, my wife introduced me to an entirely foreign-to-me concept of journaling known as Bullet Journaling. For those of you uninitiated, think of bullet journaling as an extensible planner with a heavy focus on the index to help bring order to chaos. A bullet journal is flexible, allowing you to organize tasks, events, collections (groups of tasks, ideas, and more). Bullet Journaling was born of a need to bring all the ideas/tasks/events plaguing us in the digital age and put them to paper in a single place. [Read More]
DigiBuJo 

Deploying Microsoft Defender ATP for macOS using Workspace ONE UEM

Converting Jamf templates to Workspace ONE templates

 Posted on February 18, 2020  |  4 minutes  |  713 words

I had a few folks recently approach me on the MacAdmins slack asking for help with deploying Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac. We got it working, but it came down to 2 issues: conflicting documentation and Jamf/inTune specific templates. Once I was able to parse through the Jamf/InTune documentation, we were able to put together some guidance. We recently published this guide to the EUC Samples GitHub Repository. Conflicting Documentation The initial problem I found was some confusion generated by Microsoft’s documentation. [Read More]
macOS 

Testing macOS Catalina Kerberos SSO Extension Over VPN

Enabling the off-network Kerberos Single Sign-On Experience.

 Posted on February 4, 2020  |  4 minutes  |  677 words

Working at VMware, I’m surrounded by great technology and super-smart folks! In our portfolio of technologies, the folks in our R&D have recently been putting quite a bit of effort into building out macOS capabilities for our Workspace ONE Tunnel client for macOS. Workspace ONE admins can leverage the same VMware technology they used to enable per-app VPN for iOS and Android, but now on macOS! There’s a bit of nuance to configuring the VPN client if you’re previously familiar with iOS (look for my Operational Tutorial soon to hit TechZone). [Read More]
macOS  SSO  VPN 

Welcome to Hugo (from Jekyll)

 Posted on June 15, 2018  (Last modified on March 16, 2020)  |  1 minutes  |  181 words

Welcome to my wholly reworked website! This time, I’ve dropped the complexity of Wordpress and opted for something significantly simpler: Jekyll Hugo and GitHub. Having now hosted the site in GitHub Pages, here was the process I started with Hugo: Created the Github Pages repo (rterakedis.github.io) – this is where github pages looks for the blog’s generated site files. Created a 2nd Github repo: rterakedis.github.io.hugo – this repo holds the source files for Hugo to parse and generate the site. [Read More]
Jekyll  Hugo  GitHub