There have been many post regarding High Sierra and iOS 11 over the past few weeks in my weekly news summary. And more arrived this week after the release. I thought it might be helpful to aggregate them all in one place.
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🔨Support and HowTos
- Use Startup Profiles In macOS – Charles Edge
- APFS preparation and macOS High Sierra – Rich Trouton
- Enabling Kernel Extensions in High Sierra – Graham Gilbert
- Get Ready for macOS High Sierra – Hugo Costa
- All About APFS – Jamf
- Microsoft Office support for macOS 10.13 High Sierra –
- What macOS Version Did I Just Download? – Tim Sutton
- 5K Versions of Every Default macOS Wallpaper – 512 Pixels
- SplashBuddy is ready for High Sierra, but…
- Sierra’s unified log evolves: more persistent, and a valuable log log – The Eclectic Light Company
- AutoCasperNBI & AutoImagrNBI 1.4.0, High Sierra Compatible & Sadness
- OWC’s Aura SSDs Not Working With macOS High Sierra, Fix Coming Soon – Mac Rumors
- Krypted.com has a seemingly endless stream of new articles on High Sierra. Read this one first:
Before You Upgrade to macOS Server 5.4 on High Sierra (macOS 10.13) then catch up with the rest. (amazing work, Charles!) - Some stuff about Install macOS High Sierra.app – Greg Neagle
- Using the macOS High Sierra OS installer’s startosinstall tool to avoid APFS conversion – Rich Trouton
- Using the macOS High Sierra OS installer’s startosinstall tool to install additional packages as post-upgrade tasks – Rich Trouton
- Stupid Install macOS High Sierra Tricks – Greg Neagle
- Restoring from a snapshot with APFS — François Levaux-Tiffreau
- Changing local account passwords may cause new login keychain to be silently generated on macOS High Sierra – Rich Trouton
🍏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)
- Preparing your Fusion Drive Mac for the macOS High Sierra install
- If you can’t send an email with iOS 11 and an Outlook.com or Exchange mail account (updated for 11.0.1)
- Use Bluetooth and Wi-Fi in Control Center with iOS 11
- About the security content of iOS 11
- Technical Note TN2459: User-Approved Kernel Extension Loading
- iTunes 12.7
- What’s new in macOS 10.13
- About Mobile Device Management
- Configuration Profile Reference
- About iOS 11 Updates
- About watchOS 4 Updates
- About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13
- Apple security updates
- Use Apple Configurator to connect to an Apple TV over a network
- iOS Deployment Reference
- macOS Deployment Reference
- How to switch between Windows and macOS in macOS High Sierra
♻️Updates and Releases
macOS
- Munki 3.1 Official Release
- Casper Suite v9.101.0
- DeployStudio Server 1.7.7
- AutoPkg 1.0.3
- iTerm2 3.1.1: fixes critical security issue
- Suspicious Package 3.3
- FSMonitor 1.0.7 (Changelog)
- Apple Configurator 2.5
- Winclone 6 and BootRunner 2 are High Sierra ready
- Parallels Desktop 13
- Default Folder X 5.1.6
- Carbon Copy Cloner 5.0.2
- AutoDMG 1.8
- VMware Fusion
- macOS Server 5.4
iOS
- Things 3.2: New iOS 11 features
- WorkingCopy 3.1.0: iOS 11 Git client with Files provider and Drag and Drop support
- Textastic Code Editor 6
- Prompt 2
- 1Password 6.8.2
- TeamViewer QuickSupport: uses the new frameworks in iOS 11 to allow remote screen sharing to iOS clients
- Dropbox now supports iOS 11 Files app
- GraphicConverter 10.5: adds HEIC support on High Sierra
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