Tag Archives: Python

Introducing Brigadier, a tool for automated Boot Camp driver download and installation

January 29, 2013

Anyone doing Windows deployment on Macs, and dealing with getting and installing the Boot Camp drivers, has probably found it to be a pain point. I recently wrote a small tool called Brigadier that I’m now testing in my environment, that will fetch Boot Camp ESD packages for any model from either OS X or [...]

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Interfacing with DeployStudio using HTTP

December 2, 2012

DeployStudio is frequently a starting place for deploying and configuring Mac systems. It has a computer database that can store information like computer/host names, default workflows, management settings and custom properties that can be leveraged by workflow scripts and inventory systems. It’s well-known that all this database information is stored in plain XML plist files [...]

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Modifying the TCC database

November 10, 2012

Mountain Lion introduced a new iOS-like feature to allow users to be notified when an application requests access to that user’s contacts: …and to be able to modify this access later: Why does Final Cut Pro 7 want to access contacts? Final Cut Pro 7 introduced a feature that uses iChat (which doesn’t even really [...]

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