Slides from the “Providing the best Mac experience possible, from the Apple CoE team with ♥” session at Jamf Nation User Conference 2018

For those who wanted a copy of my Mac management talk at at Jamf Nation User Conference 2018, here are links to the slides in PDF and Keynote format.

PDF – http://tinyurl.com/JNUC2018SAPPDF

Keynote – http://tinyurl.com/JNUC2018SAPKeynote

Oracle Java JDK, OpenJDK, Java 11 and macOS

With Java 8 approaching the end of its lifecycle, Oracle has made some changes to the Oracle JDK license that will affect Java 11’s JDK. As of Oracle Java JDK 8, you can use the JDK for free in the following circumstances:

• Development
• Testing
• Prototyping
• Production

As of Oracle Java JDK 11, you can use the JDK for free in the following circumstances:

• Development
• Testing
• Prototyping

Notice that Production has dropped off the list? If you use Oracle Java JDK 11 for production use, Oracle is now expecting payment. For the complete details, please see the license agreement (relevant sections highlighted below):

If you don’t want to or can’t pay Oracle, what are the available options?

1. Keep using Oracle Java JDK 8

Oracle will continue to provide updates for Java 8 until January 2019, so a short-term solution is to keep using JDK 8 until support ends. This is only a short term solution however. If you want to continue using Java 8 past January 2019, you may need to start paying Oracle in order to get access to continuing Java 8 support.

2. Migrate from Oracle Java JDK to OpenJDK

In addition to its commercial offering, Oracle has an open-source Java available named OpenJDK. As of Java 11, Oracle will be providing functionally identical JDK builds to both the commercially licensed Oracle JDK and the open-source OpenJDK. For more details, please see below the jump:

Session videos and slides available from MacSysAdmin 2018

The documentation from MacSysAdmin 2018 is available, with the session slides and videos being accessible from the link below:

http://documentation.macsysadmin.se

The video of my session is available for download from here:

• Getting started with Amazon Web Services: http://docs.macsysadmin.se/2018/video/Day4Session4.mp4

I also like to thank Tycho Sjögren and Apoio AB for inviting me to speak again at this year’s MacSysAdmin.

Building an SAP GUI installer for macOS

Since I’ve started working for my current employer, my colleagues and I have occasionally received the following question from various Mac admins:

“I’m using SAP in my environment. How do I deploy the Mac software for SAP?”

When we’ve followed up for more details, the “Mac software for SAP” usually means the SAP GUI software. SAP GUI comes in two flavors:

• SAP GUI for Windows
• SAP GUI for Java

SAP GUI for Java supports the following operating systems:

• openSUSE
• Fedora
• macOS
• Microsoft Windows
• AIX
• Ubuntu

The SAP GUI for Java is what’s available for macOS, so how to get it and deploy it? For more details, please see below the jump.

Slides from the “Getting Started with Amazon Web Services” session at MacSysAdmin 2018

For those who wanted a copy of my Amazon Web Services talk at at the MacSysAdmin 2018 conference, here are links to the slides in PDF and Keynote format.

PDF – http://tinyurl.com/MSA2018AWSPDF

Keynote – http://tinyurl.com/MSA2018AWSKeynote