Two months into the beta cycle, Big Sur is still not education ready. Today marks the release of beta 5 and Apple has not implemented a way for standard users to enable screen recording.

While working to enroll 1,000+ Macs to prep for the start of school, we found a large number were failing to get an enrollment configuration during Setup Assistant. There were three distinct ways the process failed.

There are times when you may want to only allow local account logins, but also bind to a directory service like AD. Though mobile accounts are a thing of the past and should be avoided, binding in your environment could still have a place.

My previous posts about NoMAD Login + Jamf Pro deployment workflows assumed that once a local account is provisioned NoMAD Login will be uninstalled. From then on out users would use the stock macOS login window they’re used to.

jamf_cat_report.py is a Python tool to output Jamf Pro mobile device app catalog info in a nicely formatted CSV. Here’s an example CSV of the type of data you’ll get.