This weekly news summary will be the last until the end of August. I will keep track of interesting posts, and provide a big summary at the end of the month, though I will also be offline a lot and probably miss something interesting. If you find any post or link you think is worthy, you can send to it me on Twitter or the MacAdmins forum (also scriptingosx) and I will make sure to include it.
I have scheduled a bunch of articles to be posted on the weblog over the next few weeks. You can find details in yesterday’s post: Vacation Time, Travel Time, Sneak Preview Time
#! On Scripting OS X
- SSH Tunnels
- Terminal and SSH Apps for macOS and iOS
- Vacation Time, Travel Time, Sneak Preview Time
- Thoughts on the iPod (2001–2017)
📰News and Opinion
- Adobe Flash’s Days Are Officially Numbered
- Kextpocalypse: High Sierra and kexts in the Enterprise – Erik Gomez
- Sierra isn’t finished yet: APFS support is undone in 10.12.6
- How Jony Ive Masterminded Apple’s New Headquarters – WSJ
🔨Support and HowTos
- SHA–1 Certificate Warning – Richard Purves
- What macOS Version Did I Just Download? – Tim Sutton
- Using installer choices.xml to modify AnyConnect and McAfee deployments – Eric Hemmeter
- Deploying a pre-configured F5 Big-IP VPN client – Rich Trouton
- Typical LDAP mappings for Active Directory in Jamf Pro (formally Casper) – Darren Wallace
- Logs, Logging, And Logger (Oh My)! – Charles Edge
- Apple Discontinues iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle
- Custom DEP – Part 7: Getting started with AirWatch 9.1.3 – Erik Gomez
♻️Updates and Releases
📺To Watch
🎧To Listen
📚Support
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