Squeezing in so much work between a week of conference and a week of vacation. I will be mostly offline next week and there will be no posts, updates or news summary next week. (Sorry!) Me and the summary will be back in the week after!
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#! On Scripting OS X
📰News and Opinion
- Jamf works with Bungie to improve ‘iPad for Kids’ program
- Eight Noteworthy channels on the MacAdmins Slack – Mac Lovin’
- Unlocking or decrypting using an institutional recovery key does not work with encrypted APFS boot drives on macOS High Sierra 10.13.0 – Rich Trouton
- New package functionality in the Admin Console – Adobe Installation and Licensing
- Today’s Jamf Announcement – Jamf Nation
🔨Support and HowTos
- AIM will be discontinued on December 15, 2017
- sysadminctl changes in 10.13 – Babo D’s Corner
- Download Sierra through CLI – Ross Derewianko
- Lazy VM building hacks with AutoDMG and KextPolicy – Mod Titan
- SIP requirements for startosinstall –volume – Pike’s Universum
- End of mainstream support on Office for Mac 2011
- Jamf Discontinuing JDS – Jamf Nation
- Treat yo self to a nice macOS High Sierra icon – Mod Titan
- Greg Neagle on Twitter: “Installation workflows, not imaging workflows are the future of consistent deployment on macOS. Start testing today!”
🍏Apple
- Apple reveals new emoji coming to iPhone and iPad
- Katherine Adams joins Apple as general counsel and SVP
- Deploy apps in a business environment with iTunes
- APFS and imaging – macOS Deployment Reference (updated for High Sierra, very interesting imaging information)
- Apple Releases iOS 11.0.3 Update With Haptic Feedback and Unresponsive Display Fixes – Mac Rumors
- If you see authentication server errors when turning FileVault on in macOS High Sierra
♻️Updates and Releases
- WhiteBox Packages 1.2
- EFIgy: A small client application that uses the Duo Labs EFIgy API to inform you about the state of your Macs EFI firmware
- Bonjeff (Bonjour Browser)
- Open Distribution Server
- Twitterific 5 for macOS
- BBEdit 12.0 (also TextWrangler is not compatible with High Sierra)
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