Another week, another beta. We also have a date (September 12) for the iPhone Keynote. Everything looks to be ramping up for a September or early October release for macOS High Sierra and iOS 11. Fun times ahead!
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📰News and Opinion
- What will iOS and macOS be like in the future? – Jason Snell
- Why the Mac needs iCloud Backup – Dan Moren
- Happy 15th Birthday CCC! – Mike Bombich
- Screen sharing coming with iOS 11 – Six Colors
- Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 Support Will End Oct 2017 – Marriot Library
- Reliability of macOS Sierra: scheduled and background activities – The Eclectic Light Company
- UEFI, 10.13/APFS, and You(r Imaging) – Allister Banks
🔨Support and HowTos
- Writing A Web App With Python – The Macintosh Guy
- Screenshot Secrets for macOS – Alexander Fox
- Building a Jamf Pro smart group containing High Sierra-incompatible Mac models – Rich Trouton
- Jamf Pro in a Virtual Box – Marriott Library
- Digita Security on Twitter: Undocumented softwareupdate flag –include-config-data can be used on Sierra to install timely updates to macOS security features
- Quick and dirty: Pull a list of all filevault encrypted users on a Mac – Charles Edge
- User Approved Kernel Extension Loading – Pike’s Universum
- dot_clean – Merge ._* files with corresponding native files — François Levaux-Tiffraeu
- Microsoft Office support for macOS 10.13 High Sierra –
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