October 9, 2024
By: John Straffin
At the request of the publisher, we will be applying a patch to the University production HCL BigFix instance at 5:00 PM today, October 9, 2024. We've already applied the patch to test and development systems without issue. If you...
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By: John Straffin
With Apple's release of macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 (which resolved a network filter bug), CrowdStrike Falcon for macOS is now fully supported on macOS Sequoia 15. If you are starting fresh with a clean install of macOS Sequoia 15, you will...
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March 26, 2024
By: John Straffin
UPDATE: The patch install went swimmingly with the system coming back into production around 5:00PM. Thank you for your patience. At the request of the publisher, we will be applying a patch to the University production HCL BigFix instance at...
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December 13, 2023
By: John Straffin
Tonight's upgrade to HCL BigFix 11.0.1.104 RC completed without issue and select computers have been upgraded to the 11.0.1.104 client, all reporting to the server just fine. Console users will need to upgrade their console software using the "BigFix-BES-Console-11.0.1.104-BETA.exe" installer...
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January 20, 2023
By: John Straffin
As discussed in yesterdays' Endpoint Management Meeting, beware of jumping too many versions of macOS at a time without uninstalling the CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor first! Upgrading from one supported version of macOS to another should be fine, but going from...
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October 13, 2022
By: John Straffin
On October 11, 2022, some security patches for Microsoft Windows Domain Controllers went from being optional to being enforced. With this change, we may see some issues and changes with our Apple/Mac systems binding to Active Directory. We wanted to...
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October 6, 2022
By: John Straffin
Considering recent issues IT Admins have reported with using Shared Network Adapters (or SNAs), we’d like to clarify a few things as well as share what OIT Device Engineering is doing to help: - The Shared Network Adapter registration process...
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June 17, 2022
By: John Straffin
With OIT Device Engineering expanding our efforts to provide uniform solutions to the university IT community, we need to expand out testing capabilities beyond our own computers and virtual machines. As we create and manage application installers, feature updates, settings...
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June 2, 2022
By: John Straffin
The recording of the May 19 Endpoint Management Meeting is now available (Duke NetID required): [embed height="360" width="640"]https://warpwire.duke.edu/w/MeMGAA/[/embed] Also available as video (MP4), audio (M4A), transcript (VTT), and chat (TXT) in the Endpoints Box Share. Items of note: Patching: Apple...
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May 19, 2022
By: John Straffin
Many of us are used to using Microsoft Teams on Microsoft Windows by now and are coming to understand its similarities and differences with other communication and collaboration platforms. However, you may not be aware of two important distinctions between...
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