New Office! New remote control solution for Macs! New ‘Apple at Work’ pages!
Lots of new and interesting things this week to read up and keep up with.
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📰News and Opinion
- Apple is getting very, very serious about enterprise IT – Jonney Evans, Computerworld
- Apple accelerates US investment and job creation – Apple
- New macOS DNS hijacking malware discovered, also capable of screenshots, file access, more – Chance Miller, 9to5Mac
- Office for Mac turns ‘Suite 16’ – Bill Smith, Jamf Blog
- Microsoft adds drag and drop support in Office apps for iOS Insiders – MSPoweruser
- This was a comment on another post, but I… – Miles A. Leacy IV
- The end of the conference era – Marco Arment: This article is focussed on iOS/macOS developer conferences. I have a feeling most Mac focussed IT conferences are doing well.
- IT Kit – The best tools for IT professionals: New site attempting to surate a list of IT tools. The list is still quite thin, but seems to be biased towards Apple/Mac IT tools. Might be worth watching.
- Steve Troughton-Smith on Twitter: “It looks like Apple may be preparing Meltdown/Spectre mitigations for macOS 10.12 (Sierra) in an upcoming security update.”
- Not even wrong – ways to dismiss technology – Benedict Evans
🔨Support and HowTos
- Add
product idto a distribution pkg with Packages.app – Eric Holtam, osxbytes - MacAutomation on Twitter: “Live Import into Photos from tethered iPhone”
- Bear on Twitter: “@kjaymiller made an AppleScript that imports multi-line text into Things as tasks”
- Suppressing auto-update checks for Microsoft Visual Studio Code for Mac – Daz Wallace, moof IT
- FileVault recovery key redirection profile changes in macOS High Sierra – Rich Trouton
- Analyzing a New macOS DNS Hijacker: OSX/MaMi – Patrick Wardle, Objective-See
- VMware Fusion API Explorer
- Bootstrappr – Greg Neagle
- Oracle Java 9 JDK and JRE installation scripts for macOS – Rich Trouton
🍏Apple Support
- New ‘Apple at Work’ pages and documents
- Employee Starter Guide for Mac
- Use PIV Mandatory authentication
- About the security content of Xcode 9.2
♻️Updates and Releases
- TCM – Twocanoes Software Remote Control for Mac
- Office 2016 for Mac 16.9.0 (the download links at macadmins.software have also been updated)
- WhiteBox Packages 1.2.2
- Louis D’hauwe on Twitter: “Sad news: Terminal has been removed from the iOS App Store for being “too similar to Terminal”
🎧To Listen
- The Future of Mac Labs, with Neil Martin – Mac Admins Podcast
- Siri needs to become a platform – Rene Ritchie, Vector Podcast
📖To Read
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