Using XAML in PowerShell and .NET apps in PowerShell Modules

Recently, in my "real" job, I wanted to improve on the process of adding applications into SCCM/Software Center. While the SCCM wizard's not bad, it's kind of tedious, and you can't save any of the settings for an app easily. That was something I wanted to do, because SCCM has a solid, well-documented (APPLE PAY ATTENTION) PowerShell automation implementation. So I realized that if I could save the specific…

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@jonkl/116726960461188218

Yes. Things cost money, and no, the bullshit that is “oh five-cent micropayments will work” is not it, when you consider to pay someone the cost of an hour of their time including things like medical insurance et al requires a massive amount of micropayments every hour forever.

Y’all just want everyone’s work to be free for you, but your work must be compensated.

Ooh, authenticated guest mode for iPads

Really, the way to improve touchID for auth guest mode is to not require periodic passwords. Which it may now do.

But then you’d need to be able to store a LOT of fingerprints.

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Huh. Authenticated guest as medical use case, interesting. Also support for unlocking FileVault.

And one of the places where smartcards work better than touchID

Hmm…better security for customized logins. Coolness

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Being able to require touchID as part of an MFA setup is nice

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This is a big year for macOS management

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