Another productive week. If you have to no time to read anything else, at least take a moment to bookmark Charles Edges list of tools for Apple Administrators.
Also, greetings to everyone at MacTech Conference this year! And the JNUC sessions are available on YouTube. Much to read/watch/listen and catch up to!
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#! On Scripting OS X
- Twitter: “Pro tip I recently learned: select a file in Finder, command-option-C will copy the path to the file”
- One year of “Packaging for Apple Administrators”
📰News and Opinion
- The Apple Toolchain – Charles Edge, krypted.com
- Apple Now Letting Apple IDs With Third-Party Email Addresses Be Updated to Apple Email Addresses – Mac Rumors
- Introducing the New Firefox: Firefox Quantum – The Mozilla Blog
- The best laptop ever made – Marco Arment
- Screensaver Security on macOS 10.13 is broken – Victor Vrantchan
- Apple Starts Pushing High Sierra on Unsuspecting Mac Users – Adam C Engst, TidBITS
- Introducing Asset Settings, the New Enterprise Security Feature for Protecting Your Assets – Christina Chang, Adobe Installation and Licensing
- Building osquery’s community – osquery blog
🔨Support and HowTos
- How to troubleshoot your DEP/MDM Enrollments – Victor Vrantchan
- Profiles – Sound Mac Guy
- Kextpocalyse 2: The Remediation – Richard Purves
- APFS encryption status check script – Rich Trouton
- AutoPkgr for Dummies 2: Trust your recipes – Mod Titan
- osquery Across the Enterprise – Palantir
- Surviving the Kextpocalyse, Round 0 – Victor Vrantchan
- Running the Jamf Pro Installer MSI in Windows – Darren Wallace, Amsys
- Cabel Sasser on Twitter: “Pro MacBook Pro Tip: have a Touch Bar with Touch ID? If you edit /etc/pam.d/sudo and add the following line to the top… auth sufficient pam…” “(Important caveat/warning: if you SSH into that machine, you will NOT be able to sudo, as your fingerprint cannot travel through SSH.)” (might be fixed in 10.13.2?)
- Using Go for Scalable Operating System Analytics – Mike Arpaia
🍏Apple Support
- About migrating to Apps and Books in Apple School Manager
- Adjust SMB browsing behavior in macOS High Sierra 10.13
- iOS 11.1.2
- macOS 10.13.2 beta 4 Release Notes (contains more details on new UAKEL/UAMDM behavior)
♻️Updates and Releases
MacTech Conference Session Notes
📺To Watch
- Jamf Nation User Conference 2017: Session Videos and Resources
- Bootstrap Packages for macOS Technical Deep Dive – VMware
- Setting up Time Machine server in High Sierra – James van der Moezel
🎧To Listen
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- It’s Raining Shoes – Mac Admins Podcast
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