I am back from vacation! We had a great time. Here is the (not too massive) collection of links I still gathered while idly browsing the web and the twitters. (It also seems I lost some of the links because Notes on my iPad with iOS 11 beta, did not sync so well with Notes on my Mac with Sierra…)
Apple is ramping up the final stages of the iOS and macOS beta program and have started releasing some very interesting support articles.
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#! On Scripting OS X
- New Support Articles for High Sierra
- Terminal Primer:
- 1 – First Steps in Terminal
- 2 – Navigating the File System
- 3 – Special Characters
- 4 – Commands
- Part 5 will be posted soon
📰News and Opinion
- Clayton Burlison – “Sysadmin day”
- The Best Thunderbolt 3 and 2 Docks – Nick Guy, The Wirecutter
- CrashPlan Discontinues Consumer Backups – Joe Kissel
🏔Preparing for High Sierra
🍏Apple Support
- Prepare your institution for iOS 11, macOS High Sierra, or macOS Server 5.4
- Upgrade macOS on a Mac at your institution
- Prepare for changes to kernel extensions in macOS High Sierra
- Prepare for APFS in macOS High Sierra
- Prepare for changes to Content Caching in macOS High Sierra
- About Apple Pro Apps and macOS High Sierra
- Apple Training Documents updated for 10.12 (Barely in time)
😲Reactions
- Apple – when it rains, it pours… – N. Martin
- Three Big Things – ModTitan
- Kernel extensions and macOS High Sierra – Rich Trouton
- New Support Articles for High Sierra – Armin Briegel
🔨Support and HowTos
- Disable the new ‘click Connect before reconnecting to a server’ popup – Darren Wallace
- Disable Promiscous Mode Authentication VMware Fusion – David Hill
- Hidden Docs and Functionality in macOS – Marriot Library
- Firmware Follow-up – Anthony Reimer
- How to sign a configuration profile – Darren Wallace
- Using ElastiCache with Jamf Pro in Clustered Environments – John Otander
- Profile to enable FileVault 2 only – Darren Wallace
- Using installer choices.xml to modify AnyConnect and McAfee deployments – E. Hemmette
- Adding password protection to manually installed management profiles – Rich Trouton
- How to create a VM that’ll work with DEP on VMware Fusion – Ross Derewianko
- Setting a macOS VM to automatically boot to Recovery HD using VMware Fusion – Rich Trouton
- Mac Outlook Support Utilities
♻️Updates and Releases
📺To Watch
🎧To Listen
- Excitability As Feature, with Allister Banks – Mac Admins Podcast
- Hot Sauce Talk with Allen Hancock of Watchman Monitoring – Mac Admins Podcast
📚Support
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