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You have inventoried the environment. Now watch how it behaves. Week two is about understanding the jamf binary, the check-in cycle, policy execution, logs, and scoping — without touching production.
You have inventoried the environment, watched it operate, and made your first safe changes. Week four is about assessing what needs to improve, building a backlog, and leaving the environment better than you found it.
Map Windows DSC compliance reporting to Apple DDM status items in Jamf Pro. Learn to retrieve and parse management.declarations status data using the Jamf Pro API and PowerShell 7+.
Translate SCCM status filter rules to Jamf Pro webhooks. Learn the event model, configure webhooks via the Jamf Pro API using PowerShell, and understand what a webhook consumer must implement.
Close the DDM remediation loop with PowerShell. Parse a Jamf Pro webhook payload, query DDM declaration status, and trigger a targeted sync for non-compliant devices via the Jamf Pro API.
Explains the shift from XML configuration profiles to DDM JSON declarations, mapping legacy payload concepts to Type, Identifier, ServerToken, and Payload.
Shows how to build DDM Configuration and Activation declarations with PowerShell objects, arrays, nested hashtables, predicates, and ConvertTo-Json -Depth 10.
Explains the supported Jamf Pro path for custom DDM declarations: deploy with Blueprints, authenticate to the API, and verify DSS and DDM status data.
Bridge MSI and EXE habits to macOS terminal installs with pkg, app, dmg, installer, hdiutil, pkgutil, ditto, and system_profiler.
Translate Windows Services and Scheduled Tasks into macOS launchd concepts, including LaunchDaemons, LaunchAgents, plist keys, and launchctl.
A practical guide to using PowerShell 7+ on macOS for Windows administrators crossing into Apple fleet management.