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  • 1.  Installing Rosetta 2 on Apple Silicon Macs

    Posted Thu October 21, 2021 06:45 AM
    Hi,
    does anyone here have experience with MaaS360 and the new Apple Silicon Macs?
    Is there a way to trigger installation of Rosetta 2 from MaaS360?

    The use case is Macs being enrolled into MaaS360 using Apple DEP.


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    Best Regards,

    Kjetil Holm
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  • 2.  RE: Installing Rosetta 2 on Apple Silicon Macs

    Posted Thu October 21, 2021 01:37 PM

    Hi Kjetil,

    There are 2 ways to handle this:

    1) It will prompt the user to install the first time they run a program that requires it.  Should be a minimal amount of interaction required

    2) Push a script to the devices that will run one of the following Terminal commands (the first requires root permissions the second does not):

    /usr/sbin/softwareupdate --install-rosetta --agree-to-license
    /usr/sbin/softwareupdate --install-rosetta


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    Matt Shaver
    System Architect
    IBM
    mshaver@us.ibm.com
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  • 3.  RE: Installing Rosetta 2 on Apple Silicon Macs

    Posted Fri October 22, 2021 05:17 AM
    Thanks Matt,
    that's great!

    A couple of follow-up questions:
    1. For the first script to work, the user must be logged on as root? Which you probably won't allow your users to do(?).
    2. The deployment of this script cannot be automated during enrollment? The admin needs to push the script actively to already enrolled devices, one by one?

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    Best Regards,

    Kjetil Holm
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  • 4.  RE: Installing Rosetta 2 on Apple Silicon Macs

    Posted Tue October 26, 2021 03:36 PM

    For the first question I've seen a mixed bag.  Some companies do allow this and others do not.

    The script deployment can be automated as part of the app catalog workflows so that it can be instantly installed and run as soon as the device is enrolled (give or take a few minutes, depending on other processes) 



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    Matt Shaver
    System Architect
    IBM
    mshaver@us.ibm.com
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