This week was a bit quieter and given the news from the last few weeks, that is probably a good thing. Quite a few very interesting and useful articles, though.
Ed Marczak has put together a great site with information for the ‘new’ Mac Admin: Mac Admin Info
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📰News and Opinion
- 20 Conferences for Mac and iOS Professionals in 2018 – Adam C. Engst, TidBITS
- Mac Malware of 2017 – Objective-See
- Apple announces the date for the Sierra course retirement – Amsys
- The Mac, The Myth, The Legend: How Snow Leopard became synonymous with reliability – Michael Steeber, 9to5Mac
- This is Tim: Transcript of Apple’s Q1 2018 earnings call – Jason Snell, Six Colors
- Apple Q1 2018 earnings: Record revenue, beating the estimates – Jason Snell, Six Colors
🔨Support and HowTos
- Mac Admin Info – Ed Marczak
- APFS Bootable Clone With Command Line – Belight Software
- A Better Online Experience – tnetenba
- Faster Munki Downloads from Nginx – Zack McCauley
- defaults write with double slash – Per Olofsen
- Running configuration data updates for Apple’s XProtect and MRT security tools – Daz Wallace, moof IT
- Reusable script for updating EA values in Jamf Pro with the API – Emily Kausalik
- Ten Things I Wish I’d Known About bash – zwischenzugs
- Ten More Things I Wish I’d Known About bash – zwischenzugs
🍏Apple Support
- 64-bit Requirement for Mac Apps – Apple Developer (not really new, but has been a topic last week since 10.13.4 warns about 32-bit apps, also a good place to remind you of this shared document listing 32-bit apps )
♻️Updates and Releases
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