Happy Holidays!
We made it! This is the last news summary for 2017. Presumably, much of the industry will take a break over the holidays and new year’s. Either way, I will and I hope you can, too.
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#! On Scripting OS X
- iMac Pro Implications for Mac Admins
- Interesting Software on Sale in the AppStores
- On Twitter: “Mac Terminal #ProTip: Use shift-command-A to select the output of the last command (‘Select Between Marks’)”
📰News and Opinion
- Apple off to a promising start with its revamped pro Mac lineup
- Apple’s new Utility library will power up command-line apps – Paul Hudson
- Google Maps’s Moat – Justin O’Beirne
- NetBoot – a nail in the coffin? – Neil Martin
- Apple Rumored to Combine iPhone, iPad, and Mac Apps to Create One User Experience – Michael Tsai
- MOXiI 1st Ed now officially Free – Jonathan Levin
🔨Support and HowTos
- Jamf Pro 10.1.0 pulled
- Robert Hammen on Twitter: “Heads up #macadmins – Microsoft added a new version of Microsoft Remote Desktop (10.0.1) to the Mac App Store, as a new product, not an upgrade. Fun for VPP and Self Service users everywhere”
- Jason Broccardo on Twitter: “What @hammen is taking about with Microsoft RDC”
- mdmscripts/dep – Erik Gomez
- Use SF Mono Outside of Terminal and Xcode – Collin Donnell
- Custom DEP, Part 8: Things to look out for – Erik Gomez
- Custom DEP, Part 9: A practical example of InstallApplications, Crypt, DEPNotify and Munki – Erik Gomez
- Custom DEP Packages – Graham Gilbert
- MacBook Pro Requires Update to High Sierra to Fresh Install Windows Fall Creators Update (1709) – Tim Perfitt, Twocanoes Software
- Different block size of SSD in the same model MacBook Air– Tim Perfitt, Twocanoes Software
🍏Apple Support
Updated for iMac Pro
- Create a NetBoot, NetInstall, or NetRestore image – Apple Support
- How to select a different startup disk
- How to reset the System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac
♻️Updates and Releases
- Jamf Pro 10.1.1
- Apple Configurator 2.6.1 Bug fixes for 2.6
- Microsoft Remote Desktop 10.1.0
🎧To Listen
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