Configuration guide: macOS compliance

The configuration options on this page are only accessible to administrators.

Refer to the Usage guide: macOS compliance to use library content as a standard user.

This library pack will help you monitor and manage macOS operating systems to ensure stability, compliance, and performance. This page will guide you through the structure of the content.

Prerequisites

This library pack contains content from the following required expansion products:

• Employee Engagement - Campaigns

Some of these products offer default access to their respective content and can still be used without expansion products.

To learn more about default thresholds for expansion products, visit the extended documentation.

Included content and dependencies

This library pack contains the following content and dependencies:

Type	Name	Description	Dependencies
Live Dashboards	macOS compliance	Helps to monitor and manage macOS operating systems to ensure their stability, compliance, and performance	none
Remote Actions	Get XProtect status	Provides information about the status of the macOS XProtect (macOS built-in antivirus software) automatic update setting on macOS devices.	Required to populate specific dashboard widgets.
Remote Actions	Get firewall options	Provides information about the status of the macOS firewall on macOS devices.	Required to populate specific dashboard widgets.
Remote Actions	Invoke macOS enterprise compliance	This remote action provides information about the status of macOS, performing a compliance evaluation on macOS devices by checking several configurations related to security settings, certificate checks, and software validations.	Required to populate specific dashboard widgets.
Remote Actions	Get encryption information	Gets an APFS file system disk encryption and decryption information in addition to checking whether FileVault is enabled or not.	Required to populate specific dashboard widgets.
Remote Actions	Get macOS updates and restart information	Gets information about macOS devices - the number of days since the last restart, whether there are pending updates, a list of names of pending updates, and others.	Required to populate specific dashboard widgets
Remote Actions	Test pending reboot	Checks if the device is waiting to reboot for an update.	Required to populate specific dashboard widgets.
Remote Actions	Set firewall options	Configures firewall settings under System Preferences - Security & Privacy - Firewall on macOS devices.	none
Remote Actions	Set XProtect status		none
Remote Actions	Set auto updates	Configures additional macOS automatic update settings under System Preferences - Software Update - Advanced on macOS devices.	noone
Custom fields	OS targeted quality update version	Defines the target quality update versions of Windows and macOS operating systems.	Required to populate specific dashboard widgets.
Custom fields	OS supported version	Determines which Windows and macOS operating system versions, editions, and builds are supported.	Required to populate specific dashboard widgets.
Custom fields	OS targeted feature update version	Defines the target feature update versions of Windows operating systems. Typically, this custom field requires version updates every month.	Required to populate specific dashboard widgets.

Configuring macOS compliance

Adapt these suggested configuration steps to edit and customize content according to your organizational needs.

Follow these steps to install and configure content:

• Before configuration - Install library pack content from Nexthink Library

• Step 1 - Configure remote actions

• Step 2 - Configure custom fields

Step 1 - Configure remote actions

Navigate to the manage remote actions administration page to review and edit your remote actions.

We recommend the following configurations for these remote actions:

Name	Trigger	Schedule query
Get XProtect status	Scheduled, daily	Code 1 devices 2 | where operating_system.platform == macos
Get firewall options	Scheduled, daily	Code 1 devices 2 | where operating_system.platform == macos
Invoke macOS enterprise compliance	Scheduled, daily	Code 1 devices 2 | where operating_system.platform == macos
Get encryption information	Scheduled, daily	Code 1 devices 2 | where operating_system.platform == macos
Get macOS updates and restart information	Scheduled, daily	Code 1 devices 2 | where operating_system.platform == macos
Set firewall options	Manual, can be triggered on multiple devices	Manual actions cannot be scheduled
Set XProtect status	Manual, can be triggered on multiple devices	Manual actions cannot be scheduled
Set auto updates	Manual, can be triggered on multiple devices	Manual actions cannot be scheduled

Step 2 - Configure custom fields

Navigate to the manage custom fields administration page to review and edit your custom fields.

Operating system versions in the custom fields below are subject to change due to regular patches released by vendors and Apple and Microsoft support policies.

Typically, these versions must be updated in the custom fields once a month to ensure you have the most current patch versions.

We recommend the following configurations for these custom fields:

Name	NQL ID	Rule name	Object	NQL query
OS targeted quality update version	os_targeted_quality_update_version	macos_sonoma	device	Code 1 devices 2 | where operating_system.platform == macos 3 | where operating_system.name == "*macOS Sonoma 14.6*"
OS targeted quality update version	os_targeted_quality_update_version	macos_ventura	device	Code 1 devices 2 | where operating_system.platform == macos 3 | where operating_system.name == "*macOS Ventura 13.6.8*"
OS targeted quality update version	os_targeted_quality_update_version	macos_monterey	device	Code 1 devices 2 | where operating_system.platform == macos 3 | where operating_system.name == "*macOS Monterey 12.7.6*"
OS targeted quality update version	os_targeted_quality_update_version	windows_10_quality_update	device	Code 1 devices 2 | where operating_system.platform == windows and operating_system.name == "*windows 10*" 3 | where (operating_system.name == "*22h2*" and operating_system.build >= v19045.4717) or (operating_system.name == "*21h2*" and operating_system.build >= v19044.4651)
OS targeted quality update version	os_targeted_quality_update_version	windows_11_quality_update	device	1 devices 2 | where operating_system.platform == windows and operating_system.name == "*windows 11*" 3 | where (operating_system.name == "*22H2*" and operating_system.build >= v22621.3958) or (operating_system.name == "*23H2*" and operating_system.build >= v22631.3958)
OS targeted feature update version	os_targeted_feature_update_version	windows_10_feature_update	device	Code 1 devices 2 | where operating_system.platform == windows and operating_system.name == "*windows 10*" 3 | where (operating_system.name =="Windows 10*22H2*" or (operating_system.name =="Windows 10*21H2*" and device.operating_system.name == "*ltsc*"))
OS targeted feature update version	os_targeted_feature_update_version	windows_11_feature_update	device	Code 1 devices 2 | where operating_system.platform == windows and operating_system.name == "*windows 11*" 3 | where operating_system.name == "*23H2*"
OS supported version	os_supported_version	macos_unsupported_version	device	Code 1 devices 2 | where operating_system.platform == macos 3 | where operating_system.name !in ["*Ventura*","*Monterey*","*Sonoma*"]
OS supported version	os_supported_version	macos_supported_version	device	Code 1 devices 2 | where operating_system.platform == macos 3 | where operating_system.name in ["*Ventura*","*Monterey*","*Sonoma*"]
OS supported version	os_supported_version	windows_unsupported_version	device	Code 1 devices 2 | where operating_system.platform == windows and operating_system.name != "*server*" 3 | where (operating_system.name !in ["*enterprise*", "*education*", "*ltsc*", "*ltsb*"] and operating_system.name in ["*windows 11*"] and operating_system.build < v22621.521) or (operating_system.name !in ["*enterprise*", "*education*", "*ltsc*", "*ltsb*"] and operating_system.build < v19045.0) or (operating_system.name !in ["*ltsc*", "*ltsb*"] and operating_system.name in ["*pro*", "*pro*"] and operating_system.build < v19045.2130) or (operating_system.name in ["*enterprise*", "*education*"] and operating_system.name !in [ "*ltsc*", "*ltsb*"] and operating_system.build < v19044.0) or (operating_system.name in [ "*ltsc*", "*ltsb*"] and operating_system.build < v19044.0) or operating_system.name == "*Windows 7*" or operating_system.name == "*Windows 8*" or operating_system.build < v7601.0
OS supported version	os_supported_version	windows_supported_version	device	Code 1 devices 2 | where operating_system.platform == windows and operating_system.name != "*server*" 3 | where (operating_system.name !in ["*ltsc*", "*ltsb*"] and operating_system.name in ["*enterprise*", "*education*"] and operating_system.name == "*windows 11*" and operating_system.build > v22000.194) or (operating_system.name !in ["*ltsc*", "*ltsb*", "*enterprise*", "*education*"] and operating_system.name == "*windows 11*" and operating_system.build > v22621.521) or (operating_system.name !in ["*ltsc*", "*ltsb*"] and operating_system.name == "*windows 10*" and operating_system.name in ["*enterprise*", "*education*"] and operating_system.build > v19044.1288) or (operating_system.name !in ["*ltsc*", "*ltsb*"] and operating_system.name in ["*pro*", "*pro*"] and operating_system.name == "windows 10*" and operating_system.build > v19045.0) or (operating_system.name in ["*ltsc*", "*ltsb*"] and operating_system.build > v19044.0)

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• macOS compliance

• Usage guide: macOS compliance