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Laziness is my superpower. I can't stand tedious, manual processes, and the quicker one gets on my nerves, the quicker I start mentally sketching out a way to automate it. Here are five things I've created to make someone's life easier - usually my own, but most had the side effect of benefitting others. The first four are all from my most recent role, the fifth is from a prior one.

1. Active Directory Utility

When our Mac fleet was still bound to on-premises Active Directory, I found myself getting tired of having to remote into a Windows jump host to handle AD account unlocks and password resets. I was never a fan of the Active Directory Users and Computers module either, with that cutting edge 1990s user interface that I can only assume was designed by someone who never had to actually use the thing. To eliminate these particular annoyances from my life, I wrote a utility script in just under 400 lines of Bash to handle common AD activities directly on my Mac. It called Apple’s dscl (directory se

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#!/bin/bash

set -u

prefFile="com.github.macadmins.Nudge.plist"
tmpFile="/tmp/com.github.macadmins.Nudge.Settings.plist"
remoteAssetBaseURL="https://yourwebserver.com/nudge_assets"

# Assets we need to pull locally
declare -a valueArray=("iconDarkPath" "iconLightPath" "screenShotDarkPath" "screenShotLightPath")

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#!/bin/bash

# Find directories in /Volumes with .DS_Store files
# See if each directory with a .DS_Store file is currently mounted
# If it is, skip it. If it's not, it's an orphaned mount, so increment the counter

# Fail on undefined variables, since we're running "rm" commands
set -u

orphanCount=0

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try
	--Check the Cisco AnyConnect client state
	(do shell script "/opt/cisco/anyconnect/bin/vpn state | grep \"state: Connected\"") as string
	
	--If we get here then we're connected, so return the Cisco IP information
	
	set activeNetworkPortName to "Cisco AnyConnect VPN"
	set currentIP to do shell script "/opt/cisco/anyconnect/bin/vpn stats | grep \"Client Address (IPv4):\" | awk '{print $4}'"
	
on error

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on is_running(appName)
	tell application "System Events" to (name of processes) contains appName
end is_running

repeat while is_running("AdobeAcrobat")
	try
		tell application "Adobe Acrobat Pro"
			set unsavedDocs to count of (documents where modified is true)
			set openDocs to count of documents
		end tell

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global mac_path, win_path

tell application "Finder"
	try
		set theFilePOSIX to POSIX path of (selection as string)
	on error
		display dialog "Please select a file on a server volume before running this script." buttons {"OK"} default button "OK" with icon 0 with title "Error - Nothing Selected"
		return
	end try
	set TempTID to AppleScript's text item delimiters

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#!/bin/sh

# File locations - Change as needed
list="/tmp/updatelist.txt" # List of updates not in any branches
email="/tmp/updatemail.txt" # Temp file to hold the email message
mailbinary="/usr/sbin/sendmail" # Location of the binary that sends mail
repoutil="/usr/local/reposado/repoutil" # Location of the repoutil binary

# Options for automatically adding new updates to a branch - Change as desired
autoadd=true