Back from vacation, back into work. JamfNation User Conference was this week. Looks like everyone had a great time!
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#! On Scripting OS X
📰News and Opinion
- The impossible dream of USB-C – Marco Arment (Michael Tsai’s summary post)
- The new MacBook keyboard is ruining my life – Casey Johnston (Reactions)
- Apple CEO Tim Cook: Mac Mini Will Be ‘Important Part’ of Future Product Lineup – Mac Rumors
- A new Mac mini: I want to believe – Jason Snell
- Fraternal Twins (How APFS clones affect backups and restores)– Dave Nanian
- iBooks Author Conference Highlights Worries about iBooks Ecosystem – Josh Centers, TidBITS
- Jamf, Microsoft confirm Apple grows in the enterprise – Johnny Evans, Computerworld
- Fortune 500 companies follow in IBM’s footsteps with Mac choice programs – Daniel Weber, Jamf
- iPhone 8 and iPhone X availability (US) – Wayne Dixon
🔨Support and HowTos
- Managed App Configuration – Notability
- Erasing Touch Bar Data – Michael Tsai
- Content Caching Advanced Options – Owen Hagel
- Resizing a macOS VM’s APFS boot drive to use all available disk space – Rich Trouton
- Build Your Own Jamf Pro Integrations: A Tutorial Series – Scott Blake
- Customise Atom for editing AutoPkg recipes – Graham Pugh
- macOS on-boarding at Kolide – Victor Vrantchan, Kolide
- How to Use iOS Data Protection – Douglas Hill(file level encryption is an iOS only feature. However, with APFS Apple can move this to macOS, as well. Mac admins take note.)
- Slides from the “APFS and the Jamf Admin” session at Jamf Nation Conference 2017 – Rich Trouton
- pure JS WiFi QR Code Generator
- Culture First Onboarding at JNUC 2017 – James Smith
🍏Apple Support
♻️Updates and Releases
📺To Watch
🎧To Listen
- Green Tea with Datajar – Mac Admins Podcast
- Printer Operating Systems with Dean Hager – Mac Admins Podcast
📚Support
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